We started seeing heightened loads on the freeCodeCamp.org Discourse on June 21. Our average CPU load started to grow to the point that the entire forum became unresponsive. Our Initial investigation We updated Discourse from the Stable version to the latest Tests-Passed (Beta) version, which is …

I am just going to close the loop here. Discourse are now hosting https://forum.freecodecamp.org/ . The site is ultra snappy, spammer scripts are no longer causing even a blip. We remain somewhat unclear about what issue it had on digital ocean, there may have been a noisy neighbor, the machine may …

freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts

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kneiser (Steven Kneiser) 3 Julio, 2020 06:41 17

Thanks for your hard work, team!

& thank you so so so much
for simplifying that
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freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts

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