GC downtime (August 26) due to flood of Bots

[John]

All the downtime today was due to bots, specifically AI data scraper bots as far as I can tell but might also be search engine related.

They were sending far too many bots way too fast and it was making GC unusable. Basically caused an unintentional DoS (denial of service) "attack" on GC. So I turned GC off while getting that all sorted out.

The IP addresses were from a major Internet company (hundreds or maybe even thousands of IPs) and were being used by a different major Internet company.

TikTok / Bytedance apparently must be really quite interested in the conversations going on here at GreekChat!