@JNat I'm taking my system in for servicing and am using it sparingly until it's repaired. If someone else would be so kind, much appreciated; otherwise 6-8 days. 😀
@Bart There's the SO Python chat: chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/6/python Admittedly, it's not very busy on the weekend. Several of the regulars do backend stuff, including at least one RO (not me).
Or is this a DDoS attack? @JourneymanGeek told me that someone was attacking the site through Tor a month ago which caused SE to block Tor for a time. I hope it's not happening again.
I mentioned this to Journey but I might as well repeat it here. An easy solution to attacking IPs coming from Tor is to set up an onion service for SE and then blacklist Tor IPs on the clearnet site during times of attack. That way, the most a Tor-based attacker could do is hurt the onion site. And setting up an onion service is easy.
It's interesting that the chat infrastructure isn't down. Is it on a different network?
Usually when there's maintenance of the whole site, the chat also goes unresponsive.
My memory may be faulty then. It happens from time to time. I need an ECC brain.
I'd hazard a guess and say it's an attack (or some major fault) since you as a CM don't know what's happening. I take it that CMs usually get told when legit maintenance is planned?
Is the site still down for you guys or is it just Tor that's blocked? I'm seeing in chat HNQ feeds but I can't get anywhere without the down for maintenance page getting in the way.
