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.

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    1 year ago

    they’re waiting to use the bots when the community is large, over a long period of time. This way it’d be hard to detect the bots.

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      1 year ago

      I take my comment back, you are totally right. There are a few ghost town instances with 80k users. Super obvious if you look at the active users vs users, or users vs comments. My bad -_-