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SimilarWorlds is overloaded - what's happening

Hello,

In the past 3 days, we have been experiencing a number of DDoS attacks.
This means that many bots (from countless IP addresses) are attacking SW, all at the same time, for several minutes/hours, causing the site to go down (and you seeing a "SW is overloaded" error message).

We are currently working on a solution for this, but we're simply not ready yet to make the switch right now.

We're doing all we can, and we hope by tomorrow this will be fully mitigated, to prevent these attacks from being effective again in the future.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Your data is safe.

Kind regards.

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MoveAlong · 70-79, M

Mmmm. I use a VPN to go to certain sites that Alabama has banned. Sometimes I forget to switch back before I go to SW. Can that cause a problem?

helenS · 36-40, F

@MoveAlong It's about one hundred million access requests...

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@MoveAlong Can you give me an example of a site that Alabama has banned??? 🤔

JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

@sarabee1995

Probably porn.

VA banned porn without age verification, yet I live in MD. I kept getting age verification requests saying it is required in VA. The Comcast traffic must have been hosted by a server across the River. So I switched to Opera and its free VPN.

Yet recently it seems to have stopped. Maybe people complained to Comcast.

MoveAlong · 70-79, M

@sarabee1995 Banned unless you go through verification a process. There are a couple of sites that won't connect to the server at all unless I go to them using a VPN. Then, no problem.

No, I won't mention any websites.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@MoveAlong Okay, so if I hear you right, nothing is banned. It's just that some sites require age verification. I don't have an issue with that.

shinyplasticlove · 51-55, M

@JoyfulSilence Same in ND. Some sites you have to do an age verification and some sites are not available in ND. Don't ask how I know this.🤪

JoyfulSilence · 51-55, M

@shinyplasticlove

Age verification is spreading.

But what happens if it overtakes all the VPN servers? At least I found a free browser. I bet someday they will want money.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@MoveAlong @shinyplasticlove @JoyfulSilence What is so wrong with age verification? I see this as a good thing.

shinyplasticlove · 51-55, M

@sarabee1995 In order to do that I think you have to create an account. I'm not doing that.

MoveAlong · 70-79, M

@JoyfulSilence My VPN server is in Switzerland. And I do pay for it.