You may not have had the chance to follow the news: LJ has been unreliable because certain black hat types in Russia are trying to knock it offline. And they have a lot of resources to attack with:
They’re after LJ because it’s the main platform, in Russia, for free political commentary and discussion, with one particular major anti-corruption blogger as the #1 target. And there are elections coming up in Russia.
Our fannish activities are being messed up because LJ is fighting for freedom of speech in a hostile world . . . which has made me much fonder of LJ than I have been for quite a while.
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branchandroot
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Date: Apr. 12th, 2011 03:18 pm (UTC)Impressive scary map of botnet
They’re after LJ because it’s the main platform, in Russia, for free political commentary and discussion, with one particular major anti-corruption blogger as the #1 target. And there are elections coming up in Russia.
Our fannish activities are being messed up because LJ is fighting for freedom of speech in a hostile world . . . which has made me much fonder of LJ than I have been for quite a while.
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Date: Apr. 12th, 2011 03:22 pm (UTC)Let me rephrase:
And a picture uploading test for wabbit, who is irritated at stupid hackers and DDoS attacks. Better? ;)
My bad.
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Date: Apr. 13th, 2011 07:26 am (UTC)And yes. Those attacks on LJ are seriously irking the hell out of me too! I hope they can fix it soon.
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Date: Apr. 13th, 2011 02:22 pm (UTC)