I added Anubis for https://old.lemmy.today/ and will see if it helps the situation. Bots are hammering it pretty hard but they are not getting any lemmy content at least. Thank you for your advice. :)

Glad to hear it. We use PoW to protect all endpoints which have a lot of load and cannot be cached anyway. The bots don't just hit old, they hit all of them.

Yeah, this is just a start. :)

Thanks, and again, keep up the good work!

I'm so sorry to constantly pester you, but I have another question.

I've been enjoying old.lemmy.today for the past few days. The biggest praise I can give it: I haven't missed reddit at all, and the smaller community actually makes it feel like an upgrade. Like the reddit of old.

But I wanted to make an account on Lemmy.today to make a post, however to register it seems I need an email address.

I don't want to give an email address. I could give a disposable one from one of those sites, but that would be obvious (to what it sounds like is a human curation process).

I know you said its to ward off bots, I'm wondering if its a temporary pause, or if its a permanent policy?

It's fine to not give an email address. It's just for the email to let you know that you were approved or denied. So if you put something random there and check if you can login later, it's all good.

I think it's even optional to give it... You can try registering without. :)

Cool thank you so much!

So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn't seem to work either.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

No, I checked and we do require email. I wasnt sure what was set there but yep, its required. But just put any email address there if you dont want to use a real one. You just wont get an email with approval or denyal after account creation, so you have to come back later and try to log in at some point.

Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you again (I waited a week before messaging you), but I wanted to check in on something. Last weekend, I wasn't able to access old.lemmy.world.

Around Tuesday or so, I could access the site, but I can't see any comments. I always get a 403 Forbidden error (with the words nginx at the bottom).

Is this is a problem on my end that I can fix?

Yeah, we had to require an account to use the old.lemmy.today site. So just create an account and log in. :)