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There was downtime over the past 24 hours. You might not have noticed if you use an app, since the API stayed up the whole time.

We were getting swamped by a botnet. Tens of thousands of different IP addresses, each making only a couple of requests, crawling deep into old posts. That makes normal rate limiting useless. Anubis was challenging them, but at the difficulty we had it set to, the bots were solving those challenges cheap enough that it didn't slow them down.

So Anubis now raises its difficulty automatically when the server is struggling. That still wasn't quite enough on its own, so there's one more layer now. If load spikes badly, the site temporarily goes private, meaning only logged-in users can read it. Bots get nothing to scrape, and it switches itself back off once things calm down. If you're logged out when that happens you'll get sent to the login page.

Fair warning that the private mode part hasn't faced a real attack yet. It works in testing, but the real test comes next time we get hit. Considering we've been attacked almost daily, we will probably see soon enough. Here's to hoping it holds.

Edit: Got attacked for a few hours again at ~18:30 UTC and it worked. Site went private on its own, stayed up, switched back when it calmed down. Federation unaffected. Hopefully this will hold any and all future attacks.

This is a reimplementation of an underrated RTS/ 3rd person action hybrid game called Sacrifice. Made by the legendary, and always unique studio: Shiny Entertainment; known for Earth Worm Jim 1 and 2, MDK and Messiah.

I haven't tried this port yet myself, but I'm excited to run this natively on modern hardware.

Hi,

A little while back we introduced old.retrolemmy.com. This is not really interesting on its own, but I wondered if we could also get it running on Retrofed. And this was successful by way of a proxy. The cool side effect the proxy had is that lemmy-only apps now also work if you enter old.retrofed.com in your preferred app.

This made the idea of preservation come up, and @[email protected] wondered if the proxy could be modified to also work on lemmybb and translate to older API versions. And after a while I got forum.retrolemmy.com to work with lemmybb - an old software for lemmy last updated 3 years ago - that makes the fediverse look and work like an old phpbb forum of older days. Most functions are working and functioning as intended, but there can still be some bugs here and there. Some we could probably fix, but some can also be attributed to the older software and it's quirks.

If you notice any bugs, you can message me, or reply here.

Also, this project got pretty big, but if you want to use it yourself, its at Github. It has full 0.17, limited 0.18 and full 0.19 support for the frontend, and lemmy(current) or piefed for the backend.

This thread is posted via forum.retrolemmy.com

Edit: Known limitations:

• No 2fa. As this was only added in lemmy version 0.18.x
• No last reply date/time. This can be enabled, but will call a ton of API calls for every page load, making the site unusable.
• 500: Internal Server Error -There is a real, pre-existing bug in lemmyBB's own code, where it makes a direct fetch, but doesnt handle a missing header gracefully. Unfortunately unfixable without changing the lemmyBB code (and that's against the idea of this project)
• Old posts are at the top instead of new ones - This is because the posts are stickied in the community, making them always be on top. This is especially visible in the "General" community. The new posts are under the stickied posts.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2268531/dos-ain-t-dead-forum

A semi-active web forum for DOS users and developers

Hi!

With all the tesseract drama going around, I thought I'd look into different frontend myself. And the only one that made immediate sense was mlmym - basically old reddit but for lemmy.

This is now available for everyone to use. And if you have any requests for other frontends let me know, and we'll look in to it.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/40501552

This is our 3 year anniversary! And without you guys this wouldn't have happened. I'm glad we have all these passionate people all over the fediverse willing to post the most amazing retro content.

Thankfully it was another pretty quiet year for us as admins of this site. But this is business as usual for us by now, as our site usually doesn't attract a lot of rowdy people.

This was the year that we launched our other retro inspired fedi-place called Retrofed, a PieFed based instance. This software has also proved to be great, and this is my preferred home for browsing myself (but, don't worry, retrolemmy will remain to exist as long as we physically can). We have added topics and feeds there, that can make subscribing and/or following content much easier. Hopefully these feeds will also work on lemmy if and when lemmy 1.0 gets here.

I'm glad you people are here. It's always amazing seeing a retrolemmy account in the wild, and it's great seeing all the active communities and posts here too! Thanks for another fun year!

Cheers!

Hello!

I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.18.

If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)

The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes.

If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.

Update thread with changelog here

Test for the RetroBot auto reply function

Edit: Test for autoreply immediatly worked. The regex reply trigger for "solved" needed some work. Working now.

Hello!

I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.17.

If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)

The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes.

If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.

Update thread with changelog here

Hello!

I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.16.

If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)

The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes. Also I've worked on stability issues, and it should be more stable now.

If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.

Update thread with changelog here

In our 3rd year of lemmy, we have decided to also host a PieFed instance. This instance is fully set up, and compatible with lemmy communities. Also, this instance is also set up with http included for old hardware. Meaning you can finally procrastinate on the fediverse on your old hardware!  

What is PieFed?

PieFed is a Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask. It is a younger software compared to lemmy, but the development goes blazingly fast (comparatively). And new features are added and improved often.  

Why host another? We already have lemmy.

Lemmy is amazing software, but might not be everybody's favorite. We'd like to provide a little bit of choice, and piefed seemed an interesting alternative.

Is this the end of RetroLemmy?

No. RetroLemmy will remain functional and updated for the foreseeable future. If this changes in the future, we will let you know beforehand. Just know that we have no intention to scrap this instance.  

What does piefed do that lemmy don't?

• Flair  

• Catagories and Topics  

• Feeds (like the Retrolemmy feed, in case you'll miss the local feed of retrolemmy)  

• Community wikis  

• Consolidated Comments (View all comments from multiple related posts on one page)  

And more. Full list of features here.   

Will the communities move?

No. All communities are all still available and usable through RetroFed, so the communities can stay on lemmy.   

  If you have any other questions, you can reply here, or dm me or @[email protected] directly.

I know Epic is not well liked, but I always go out of my way to claim free games. I've read somewhere that epic has to pay all claimed free games to the developer.

Either way. It's a free point 'n click for people who are interested.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33314481

Hello!

I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.15.

If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)

The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes.

If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.

Update thread with changelog here

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/671474

After eXoDOS, eXoWin3 and others, finally the first volume of eXoWin9x.

eXoWin9x is a collection of all windows 9x games from 1994 to 1996.

Features Include:
• One Click Launching - Games are preconfigured and setup in stand alone emulators. No prior knowledge or experience needed.
• Completely Portable - All games are run inside of virtual machines, with no changes made to your host system.
• Multiplayer Gaming - IPX hosting is automated, allowing you to play multiplayer games online against anyone else who has the project installed.
• Consistent Metadata - Each games front end entry is normalized to the same genres, series, and other fields with the rest of the eXo projects.
• Tons of Extras - Games include manuals, soundtracks, strategy guides, universal hint system files, commercials, trailers, and just about any other documents or files of interest.
• Foreign Titles - Several foreign titles are being included from the start. Games that are in other languages are marked with dynamic playlists, allowing you to easily filter them.

You can get it here:
https://www.retro-exo.com/win9x.html

cross-posted from: https://retrolemmy.com/post/27625507

Dutch metal band released their first track today.

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