Today, at around 16:00 - 17:00 UTC, FreeFlarum has suffered another DDoS attack targetting one specific forum. I was forced to apply mitigation rules from Cloudflare’s side, but even with them applied, a small downtime occurred. I apologize for the inconvenience, and will look at how to guard against these type of things more efficiently in the future.
I’ve also noticed that some users abuse the relaxed “limits” on forums per e-mail address and IP. Before, there was a limit of 3 forums per e-mail address, but for some users, that wasn’t enough. Because this wasn’t a problem before, I’ve removed this limit. Sadly, I will have to bring these limits back, as there were a bunch of spam forums registered in the last couple of days. These forums will be purged (we will have to review them by hand since not all belong to the same address, so if I mistakenly archive a legit forum, please let me know).
Specifically, the limits will be: 3 forums per e-mail and IP. This does not affect existing forum owners (your forums will be kept), but it will mean that you can’t register more either. If someone needs more than 3 forums, it will be handled via e-mail (message me and I will create the additional forum for you).
Meanwhile, I’ve also fixed YouTube not embedding videos on forums through iFrame. It seems that was a server-wide FreeFlarum-specific thing, until now.
