[26 Oct, 20:00 UTC] Our IT help has just reported that they have put a block in place to prevent this specific issue from happening again.
Our initial report
It appears that an AI agent is trying any email address it has to attempt to login, trying passwords, and even clicking 'Forgot password'. We have received the 'Reset password' link in email for ima moderator, and team, and one of my test accounts. And two members have reported being unable to login.
The message, 'Sorry too many unsuccessful tries. Please wait before trying again.' is a protection method at ipernity for such 'brute force' login attempts.
So of course that has to remain in place, and we can but suffer the scourge of malevolent AI. Please be patient and try again later.
[Sunday 25th] We contacted our outside IT support today. We await their reply, and will keep you informed.
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Erhard Bernstein club has replied to Colin Ashcroft club@ngélique ❤️ club has replied to Colin Ashcroft club.
I stay "logged in" on this device for just such an eventuality.
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Glad to read that the protection seems to be working, at least at the moment.
The AI bots are not on Yandex servers at present ?
Vous avez effectué trop de tentatives infructueuses. Veuillez patienter avant d'essayer à nouveau.
Merci et bonne soirée
raingirl club has replied to @ngélique ❤️ clubIf you get the message about too many attempts, you will definitely need to wait (at this point I'm unsure at how long you need to wait) before trying to login again.
I believe most users here use the check mark that requests staying logged in. If you don't know if you've done that, then it's best to not close your browser, if possible, and perhaps leave the ipernity tab open.
Colin Ashcroft club has replied to raingirl club@ngélique ❤️ club has replied to raingirl clubcar le message s'affiche toujours ?
merci mon amie c'est gentil ! bonne semaine
I hope a solution can be found for this. It's not practical for me to leave my computer on constantly and stay logged in all the time.
Also, it's not easy to sell potential new users on trying out a site which is going to be under constant attack like this. :(
At the very least, there should be a way to display updates to the situation on the Login page so we know if any resolution is happening.
'Sorry too many...' message,
adding, 'Read more at www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4747236'
which will mean those you cannot login and have not seen the banner, can now be informed.
I will think again later as to how best to provide any update information, but I guess that refreshing this page, visible if not logged in, and any news put in the opening post.
Rob
Kalli club has replied to Team clubIch konnte mich auch nicht anmelden.
Wenn ich mich nicht anmelden kann, kann ich euch auch nicht schreiben,
dass ich mich nicht anmelden kann oder sonst irgendwas nicht funktioniert.
Vielen Dank für die Mühe! ☺
Auf dem Smartphone kam die Nachricht "E‑Mail-Adresse oder Passwort falsch".
Funktioniert heute aber wieder.
*Уαɾα club has replied to Kalli clubKalli club has replied to *Уαɾα clubVielen Dank!
xenophora club has replied to Team clubToday, even on my first attempt to log in, I also received the message “Sorry too many unsuccessful tries ...”.
After two more unsuccessful attempts to log in, I cleared my browser history and all browser data. Then I was able to log in from my computer.
Of course, this could just be a coincidence, but I think it’s worth a try to avoid long wait times.
I was not aware of the problem until I tried to log in yesterday(Sunday).
Many thanks to Rob for letting me know what was going on.
Good luck.
*Уαɾα club has replied to Adrian Jones clubDafür lohnt sich die Geduld.
Good luck in your attempts to control the problem.
Heute kann ich mich wieder anmelden.
Sounds like a tricky problem. If it’s any ‘comfort’ popular websites in this country are experiencing problems.
AI web crawlers and automated bots are putting increasing pressure on smaller forums. For example, in May, administrators of the British RailUK Forums confirmed that increased bot traffic had overwhelmed their forum software, causing intermittent failures.
Mustardland, the popular Archers forum has been down for some time.
Smaller forums everywhere seem under constant forms of threat. The fear with all is that eventually smaller forums will be forced out of existence because they don’t have the economic resources to firefight all these threats.
There's a real cultural loss potentially unfolding here.
Independent forums represent an older, more intimate internet, where communities develop their own identities, traditions, friendships and collective memories over decades.
If they disappear, much of that activity migrates to a handful of enormous commercial platforms, where conversations are more transient and controlled by algorithms.
Colin Ashcroft club has replied to Steve Bucknell club.
I'm a member of several of these "smaller" fora, and hope that they will survive. Some of the very specialised ones are a fount of useful & useless information, but most are important communities in their own way - A bit like Ipernity !
aNNa schramm club has replied to Jean-luc Drouin clubIst mir selber auch passiert, da ich mich innerhalb eines Tages mehrmals in meinem Konto angemeldet habe.
Meine Frage: Wie gross ist der Zeitintervall, in dem man sich wieder anmelden kann?
Moderator club has replied to polytropos clubThe issue was not being created by your personal attempts - it was an outside bot attacking our servers and our internal coding was giving our members the message. We've also now stopped the bot from overloading our system with login requests.
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