- May 31, 2020
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A quick update for all members of our community.
Over an extended period, we have faced persistent DDoS attacks and rampant AI crawler traffic. Coupled with reduced organic traffic from Google, these issues have severely slowed our community growth — new registrations have stagnated and even declined.
After internal discussions, our management team has implemented comprehensive technical upgrades to fully mitigate these threats. Most IPs used for DDoS attacks originate from residential addresses; superficially, they appear legitimate, yet this abnormal traffic creates long-lasting adverse impacts.
Our community has always operated on a tight budget. We only run three servers (main site + attachment server) costing less than $120 per month, alongside our custom-developed proxy gateway. This setup has helped us withstand successive waves of attacks. However, revenue cannot cover ongoing expenses, which means we have not been able to purchase new content to fulfill user requests for quite some time. Currently, nearly all community operating costs are shared equally by our management team. We are deeply grateful for the time and financial resources they have devoted to keep this space running.
Let’s walk through the key technical improvements we have rolled out recently:
As our work logs show, management team members regularly perform maintenance work on weekends, sacrificing their personal time. This ongoing effort keeps the community stable and sustainable. Highlights include:
Many similar communities have shut down or pivoted to sentimental paid offerings over this period, yet we persist and keep moving forward. Thank you to all members for your understanding and support regarding our paid content.
Best wishes
Over an extended period, we have faced persistent DDoS attacks and rampant AI crawler traffic. Coupled with reduced organic traffic from Google, these issues have severely slowed our community growth — new registrations have stagnated and even declined.
After internal discussions, our management team has implemented comprehensive technical upgrades to fully mitigate these threats. Most IPs used for DDoS attacks originate from residential addresses; superficially, they appear legitimate, yet this abnormal traffic creates long-lasting adverse impacts.
Our community has always operated on a tight budget. We only run three servers (main site + attachment server) costing less than $120 per month, alongside our custom-developed proxy gateway. This setup has helped us withstand successive waves of attacks. However, revenue cannot cover ongoing expenses, which means we have not been able to purchase new content to fulfill user requests for quite some time. Currently, nearly all community operating costs are shared equally by our management team. We are deeply grateful for the time and financial resources they have devoted to keep this space running.
Let’s walk through the key technical improvements we have rolled out recently:
As our work logs show, management team members regularly perform maintenance work on weekends, sacrificing their personal time. This ongoing effort keeps the community stable and sustainable. Highlights include:
- Multilingual support: The platform now features fully adaptive automatic language switching with broad language coverage, enabling global users to browse and communicate comfortably.
- Performance optimization: We have carried out iterative tuning based on our existing server hardware to support peak traffic loads.
- Content safety: Team members conduct basic testing for all scripts. Test results are documented with screenshots within discussion threads for members to review before use.
- Member engagement: We have launched Daily Tasks. Users can earn access to desired content simply by participating in community discussions and interactions.
Many similar communities have shut down or pivoted to sentimental paid offerings over this period, yet we persist and keep moving forward. Thank you to all members for your understanding and support regarding our paid content.
Best wishes
