MangaDex Development Update - API Abuse Enforcement

[EtherealNeko]

 

[Viper4lyfe]

this explains all the site errors ongoing

 

[Chizan]

Not technically savvy to understand the exact workings of rate limiting, but I often go through the updates list, and open titles in their own tabs as I go, which tend to result in a lot of tabs. It so happens that sometimes I walk away from the pc for some reason, or take a nap or something, and when I come back and click one of the tabs to check it out, suddenly all the tabs on the mangadex domain refresh? I think that triggers it as I vaguely recall getting a few 'too many requests' in the past. Which is strange as the 'browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory' is at default value in firefox(true) so the tabs should be asleep if not accessed for a time?

That's why I often just bookmark the titles then close them and, and go through the bookmark instead when checking them...

 

[seekermoc]

Hello? Is anyone gonna provide any info as to why the servers are crashing again? Please?

I tried to post about this in r/mangadex, but apparently they now auto-filter anyone trying to post reports about website instability.

Shit, it's even worse than I thought. MD has gone full-authoritarian mode on Reddit and locked everything down. You now need to request permission and get mod approval just to post on their subreddit. Explains why there hasn't been a single post in over 2 days now.

 

[shinya78]

I tried to post about this in r/mangadex, but apparently they now auto-filter anyone trying to post reports about website instability.

Shit, it's even worse than I thought. MD has gone full-authoritarian mode on Reddit and locked everything down. You now need to request permission and get mod approval just to post on their subreddit. Explains why there hasn't been a single post in over 2 days now.

So what you're saying is, despite the implemented limitations that was meant to, and I quote...

This is our effort to reduce that and prevent degraded service for all users.

Not only that the recent outages were the result of bots...

We're dealing with sporadic botnets that aren't easily addressed without blocking other legitimate users. We are dealing with them, which is why the outages are localized and don't last too long.

They're also hiding the reports of outages from the folks over at the reddit, by locking everything down?

If this isn't premium tinfoil hat fuel, I don't know what is.

 

[seekermoc]

So what you're saying is, despite the implemented limitations that was meant to, and I quote...

Not only that the recent outages were the result of bots...

They're also hiding the reports of outages from the folks over at the reddit, by locking everything down?

If this isn't premium tinfoil hat fuel, I don't know what is.

It is odd that they're suppressing what's going on so blatantly. No main site notice or forum announcement, completely locked down subreddit with no sticky explaining any reason, status page that doesn't reflect the ongoing instability, etc.