So some spam signups just happened (all username12345678@gmail.com format e-mail) This caused bounced mail to increase, causing Mailgun to block our domain to prevent it getting blacklisted.
So:
- Mail temporarily doesn’t work
- I closed signups for now
- I will ban the spam accounts
- I will check how to prevent (maybe approval required again?)
Stay tuned.
Edit: so apparently there is a captcha option which I now enabled. Let’s see if this prevents spam. Registrations open again.
Edit2 : Hmm Mailgun isn’t that fast in unblocking the domain. Closing signups again because validation mails aren’t sent
Edit 3: I convinced Mailgun to lift the block. Signups open again.
Tangential question but it’s been on my mind. Should mods be encouraging images to be posted on outside image hosting services (Imgur or something) to reduce the load on Lemmy.world? I actually don’t know how much images affect the server.
Nah… It’s only 27GB of images right now. I have around 800GB space, and can have disks (cheap HDDs in case of images) added to the server. Also pictrs will support S3 in the newer version. But good that you’re all thinking with me!