I'm the last guy who should point out spelling misteaks, but... "Mega" Super User? :D — Journeyman Geek 24 secs ago

I understand the desire to protect users, mods and staff from disturbing imagery in the first place, but we've generally done alright with human/community flags and kicking stuff up to the community team. I wonder if a temporary compromise would be to use the filtering system for bigger images, and leave it to the community to deal with what it misses, either by size or other reasons. — Journeyman Geek 31 secs ago

as a pessimist... spammer wave? — Journeyman Geek 1 min ago

Someone has deployed a sophisticated botnet? — W.O. 52 secs ago

If so, looking at the total weekly signups since 2008 there hasn't been anything of this scale. — Dennis Leeftink 20 secs ago

Spam accounts are very often months to years old, with the first post being spam. Fortunately for us, age makes no difference to the effectiveness of the system that catches them out. — W.O. 25 secs ago

I am just wondering where the 750.000 users signed up in the past month came from, even if they are bots. I also added some additional charts to put this sign-up spike into context. — Dennis Leeftink just now

Might have been due to the A-B test testing out one-tap Google login on SO. Currently, that's configured to automatically sign someone in, which I think explains the spike. That also has some unintended side effects, such as one's profile being instantly recreated after they delete it themselves. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 40 secs ago

For reference to Sonic — Meta Andrew T. 16 secs ago

Just a note that this answer is referring to the Q&A site. It's a little different for chat suspension, where all mods can see them on Chat.SE, but only MSE mods on Chat.MSE, and SO mods on Chat.SO. — Meta Andrew T. just now

Spam. Please flag as spam. — greg-449 34 secs ago

I noticed a similar out burst of account creation on Stack Apps in May 2023. Here is a query that gives insight in accounts that are created close together: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/… — rene 16 secs ago

on the bright side, all these people will start seeing meta stuff in the community bulletin, which is nice :P — starball 39 secs ago

oh cool. the unread tag filter indicator can have a friend in status-review hell. — starball 33 secs ago

This one's on me. I gave a quick update in this answer. — Ham Vocke ♦ 18 secs ago

Fix is on its way. Updates in this answer. — Ham Vocke ♦ 33 secs ago

Same issue as this one. Fix is on its way. Sorry for the inconvenience, folks! — Ham Vocke ♦ 59 secs ago

I had Smokey make you some coffee: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9832682#98326‌​82 — rene 50 secs ago

In the mean time celebrations at Stack Exchange HQ for how the KPI "new users" is doing ... — rene 55 secs ago

The most honest, funny, and sincere answer I saw in a long while, thanks for that. While I won't ask you to make more bugs so I get more such answers, I do hope others will follow your lead! :-) — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 51 secs ago

Fair, so closed as duplicate even though a different symptom of the same bug. :) — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda just now

Closed question on EE is here: electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/710694/… — rene 47 secs ago

Just checked Arduino in case, but searching there doesn't turn up any discussion of rs232 + voltages and Windows or Linux. It may be worth you looking on there, but since the issue isn't with an actual Arduino.... — W.O. 28 secs ago

The entire network was unavailable to me for something like 30 seconds around 25 minutes ago. Not an enormous glitch in the grand scheme of things but more services than usual were unavailable (chat often stays up when the others go down). — tripleee 16 secs ago

If a user can't access MSE or MSO, they're not going to be able to reply or access the site - any alternatives for bug reports should things go horribly wrong? — Journeyman Geek just now

@tripleee Looking internally by the second at network traffic logged over the last several hours, I don't see any dips indicative of any kind of outage. Possibly something more regional, like sputtering in your ISP's DNS (which happens to me from time to time as well, and can certainly make it seem like a service is having its own problem). — Aaron Bertrand 37 secs ago

@AaronBertrand Thanks, it wasn't just me though; several users in SOCVR apparently experienced it too. (All of us are probably in Europe.) — tripleee 39 secs ago

@tripleee sure, I'm just offering anecdotally that the network wasn't down, even for a second, at least not to everyone. :-) — Aaron Bertrand just now

There does seem to be a spike in errors around that timeframe: p.us3.datadoghq.com/sb/… however the API cutover is / will be unrelated to any of the SENetwork sites. — Josh Zhang ♦ 51 secs ago

What is the domain for your CDN? — TylerH 9 secs ago

@TylerH what do you mean by domain for the CDN? We use Cloudflare. The domain that will be moving behind the CDN will be api.stackexchange.com — Josh Zhang ♦ 5 secs ago

@JoshZhang Sorry, yes I meant provider. I missed the mention of Cloudflare at the bottom of the announcement. Thanks — TylerH 56 secs ago

@HamVocke I can confirm that this has been fixed. Thank you. — CPlus 39 secs ago

What exactly is "a ton"? I host several things that use the API at a rate of roughly 1-2 requests per minute (with a peak of 1 request/6-8 seconds on average, not factoring in rate limiting, and slightly more if you count the average across all of them), and cloudflare can barely handle me logging into chat three times in a short period of time for bot testing without throwing a captcha at me — Zoe is on strike 18 secs ago

Definitely wrong site. Not here (Meta Stack Exchange), but you should ask at English Language Learners Stack Exchange (ell.stackexchange.com ). — user1176409 just now

Definitely wrong site. Not here (Meta Stack Exchange), but you should ask at English Language Learners Stack Exchange (ell.stackexchange.com ). — user1176409 1 min ago

Flagged as spam — greg-449 8 secs ago

That means lots of users are going to get blocked, no? — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 5 secs ago

We are not implementing any new rate limiters as part of the migration. API currently has an app based rate limiter that we'll be moving into Cloudflare but that's not going to be part of this move. I'm striving to make this change as transparent as possible by keeping the variables very limited. As far as blocking, the only thing I can think of that would be "new" block wise would be if someone doesn't send a user agent with their API call. This is a standard rule Cloudflare / many other CDN providers have. — Josh Zhang ♦ 56 secs ago

@Josh I mean blocks such as this one, just for the official API. — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 35 secs ago

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda I suspect that issue shouldn't happen for API since we 100% expect only "bots" to be hitting that. For the main site, it could be some form of DDoS or anti-bot behavior baked into Cloudflare. Generally speaking we won't outright block scraping of the site but it's not "supported" since the API and data dump is there for a reason. — Josh Zhang ♦ 38 secs ago

@JoshZhang Some scraping is still forced by the API not supporting authentication (specifically for chatbots, where scraping the login page is required to provide functionality). Are you sure this isn't going to kill chatbots or make them flaky? — Zoe is on strike 44 secs ago

I definitely can't be 100% certain as I'm not fully aware of every interaction chatbots will have with the site and the API. I believe the login page sits behind the SENetwork app, not api.stackexchange.com, so that isn't changing. Calls to api.stackexchange.com will be pointing to Cloudflare first instead of hitting our datacenters first. That will change. Cloudflare will have some normal threat detection like I mentioned but we are not adding any additional rules during this migration. — Josh Zhang ♦ 25 secs ago

I feel like someone reported this a while back, but maybe I'm misremembering... — V2Blast 17 secs ago

@Rosie - when will there be an initiative to have is more transparent oversight to protect users from moderator and staff misconduct? I've had to deal with this (both) recently and it just ain't right to keep having your complaints about misconduct get continually routed to the person you are complaining about and not a supervisor. — StingyJack 41 secs ago

@StingyJack when you use the contact form (as you are supposed to for that kind of thing), it goes to community managers (company staff)- not to mods. — starball 41 secs ago

Depends. On our Movies & TV site identification questions are closed as off-topic. If, however.. if it was a science fiction or fantasy, then our Science Fiction & Fantasy site will take it. Please ensure to take their tour and read-up in their help center before posting to ensure you're equipped to write a great question. — W.O. 38 secs ago

This is why I left the stack overflow community, so much toxicity and flexing. I don't know i'll ever come back, especially since AI is so much better and relevant in real time, without the hate. — conterio 44 secs ago

It's not a sci-fi or fantasy question. Thanks. I'll look elsewhere. — JoeB 27 secs ago