signs

[cellio]

(Longer posts still failing.)

There are signs, for a few miles of highway, for "[My street] detour". Must be some other part of the street; I haven't seen problems. I haven't been curious enough to follow the signs, but I think there are much more direct routes than what they're doing. Hmm: "detour" sounds kind of similar to "deter", as in "you didn't really want to go there, did you?".

Seen on a truck: a sign for Loafer's bread. Cute.

Seen in Regent Square, a shop called "legume". ??? Pretentious food? Pants? Does it amount to a hill of beans?

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[cellio]

This was attempt #2. A version with about 20 more words failed to post. Not sure exactly where the boundary is.

(LJ has not updated its off-site status message for 2.5 days.)

[geekosaur]

brief news blurb about it, fwiw

Personally, I get the impression that 6A/LJ are in way over their heads: they manage the site like it's a small hobbyist site.

[cellio]

The promised "explanation" seems to be "DDOS". I was hoping for something a little more detailed. :-( They also suggest email posting, but that doesn't work either (the email bounces). "In over their heads" sounds about right to me, yeah.

[brokengoose.livejournal.com]

They mentioned that they were taking some steps to mitigate the attacks.

I could imagine that if they were being hit by an attempt to clobber their databases by making $MAX_LENGTH-1 posts, they might restrict post length to something smaller. If they were being hit by an LJ-specific attack like that, they might not want to mention the exact steps that they were taking for fear of the attackers adapting.

That's guess piled on top of guess, though. I'm not even sure I believe it.

[kayre]

In most towns and cities, detours must take arterial routes as much as possible (just as state routes must detour onto other state routes), rather than double traffic on nearby residential streets. This means that detours are longer than truly necessary, and locals nearly always know a shorter way around the problem area.

[cellio]

Ah, that makes sense.

[indigodove.livejournal.com]

Legume appears to be a nice restaurant featuring organic and locally grown foods. They were closed when we passed by today, having just had a non-organic but sinfully tasty dinner at D's six pax and dogs (all spelling sic).

I am able to post regularly. I am a freeloading member currently, and it seems especially poor that they aren't taking care of their paid users. I hope they fix it soon.

[cellio]

Legume (or, as their sign says, "legume"): thanks! I hadn't considered a restaurant. (It appeared to be dark when we drove by too.)

LJ: It appears from reading the support board (there's better info there than what LJ posts publicly) that at least part of the problem is from blocking certain IP addresses. I just saw a message from someone who can post from her school but not her home. So what stops them from, at the very least, white-listing static IP addresses from paying customers? I understand that they're dealing with a heavy load of badness here, but they are not doing a good job of supporting their users (some of whom are paying custmers). I realize that now their biggest customers are advertisers, but still... (Remember the claim that paying customers got the better servers, as an intentive to buy accounts? Not seeing much of that either.)