Glade Art was DDOS attacked yesterday, March 29th, 2026, here are some details:

Glade Art, this site, is a social media platform for art which I made and own. The top priorities of it is to be resistant against AI training. It is also free and ad free. Anyways, yesterday it experienced a DDOS attack. > Who was this from? I don't meant to accuse, but the facts line up to most likely Meta. Blocking Meta's 57.141.20.XX IPs in the firewall halved the server load. The rest were just random datacenters from around the world. > Why would someone do this? Glade Art has a large, and famous in the bot world, tar pit. Recently, I launched the GA blog with the first article talking about the tar pit. This article just happened to get several thousand views from humans. It also gave a link to a massive 1.1GB large log file containing data from 6 million page loads of these bad actors in action. Perhaps the company or companies that were responsible for this decided to DDOS the site to prevent people from seeing it. Sounds petty, but sounds about right. > Attack details: the attack lasted for about 12 hours, peaking for about 5 hours. The bottleneck was in the server's internet upload speeds, causing slow image loading time for users. Since the tar pit endpoints are extremely lightweight for the server, not having any large CSS or font files, they attacked the heavier pages like the lander and blog. I turned off the site for a few hours to let them attack nothing. Loading time was slow enough at the time that it wouldn't matter if it was online or offline anyways. Then I turned it back online later and got it mostly under control. > As of now the attack has stopped, and everything is back to normal. No art was scraped. A few accounts registered, but they were just regular humans, and they only saw a handful of images in the feed. So if anything was scraped, then it wasn't significant at all. Registration was disabled, but has been enabled again. <> Sorry for any inconveniences that the downtime or slow loading caused! Thanks for reading, and have a nice day.