What is happened to the forum?

[redsn0w]

It was probably one of the speculation trolls angry went up yesterday instead of following their predictions and going below $200, or somebody was really serious about making fools' day prank. 
I'm glad it's working again.

I think it is was only a "stupid" april fool and maybe related with the avatar. I think someone has tried to exploit again the upload function but he failed and theymos has changed the forum to another "IP" (as you can read here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010078.msg10959655#msg10959655).

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Actually, The DDoS happened almost exactly one hour after a new bitcoin exchange called Mineral.com launched. and apparently the people at GAW are involved in it, even though they denied it.

this is just an observation, however. not saying that they did it. 

[zcxvbs]

I thought it might have been due to some problems with the re-enabling of avatars.

Seems like we're still in April Fools' mode.

The point is the avatars features don't even work well now, I'm sure we're on April 2rd right now.
Maybe it's because the attacks, hope Theymos will fix everything later.

[dothebeats]

I thought it might have been due to some problems with the re-enabling of avatars.

Seems like we're still in April Fools' mode.

The point is the avatars features don't even work well now, I'm sure we're on April 2rd right now.
Maybe it's because the attacks, hope Theymos will fix everything later.

The avatars' aren't meant to be what the user want it to be. It serves as an April Fools' prank to everyone in this forum who is eligible to put in avatars after all, so no point in telling that avatars don't work well, as it was intended to not work well. At least you see your own avatar, but the way others see you...

[mashcom]

A ddos attack? Really?

[dothebeats]

A ddos attack? Really?

Yup. And it lasted for several hours before the forum returned its stability.

[Uptrenda]

Why do you think it was DDoSed? Is there any point?

[bornil267645]

Why do you think it was DDoSed? Is there any point?

Fun fact: Well My guess is someone tried to pull a April day prank but got mixed up with the timezone so he/she/they made an impact one day later (According to my time zone) LOL 

Real Fact: I have absolutely no idea. It's happened a couple of times now in the last 6 months so the authority should try their best to prevent this kind of incident.

[tss]

people like OP post too many so called substantial posts (ie this one) and the forum cant handle all of the spam.
that's what happened to the forum.

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people like OP post too many so called substantial posts (ie this one) and the forum cant handle all of the spam.
that's what happened to the forum.

news flash. if you had took a little of your time to read the previous posts, you'll find the real question and the real answer.

[redsn0w]

Here the reply from theymos : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010342.msg10962337#msg10962337

people like OP post too many so called substantial posts (ie this one) and the forum cant handle all of the spam.
that's what happened to the forum.

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