Byond is an old, free game engine that has been since at least 2000s in sports like space station 13, which we have recently talked about. It has also been the subject of a constant DDOS attack, according to A. On a large scale Report, it is now at least in the third week.
And why, in fact, no one will start an DDOS attack against a vague game engine, and will maintain it for a long time? According to the redit post available through now, Webac machineA group is calling itself a “International Free and Open-SOS Software Community”, making it a software open source to pressurize the bide creator Lummoxer.
“Bond server attacks are a symptom of your spread,” Extremely Saferoth tells the message like talking. “They will remain as long as you ignore the voices of those who preserve your platform. We will voluntarily demand you to the side.
“Choose: Let the bond die as an ownership relic, or let it get up as an independent project. The time is running out.”
Whether it is a valid claim or not, I cannot say. This doesn’t definitely seem like a good reason to throw a constant DDOS attack, but I have been on the Internet for a long time to know this ‘It looks very stupid to come true’ The best is 50/50 when it comes to predicting if something really is true.
In a redit thread that did not grow long after the onset of the attack, properly “entitled”What kind of crazy ddoses byond?“Users suggested other potential rationalists for the attack, most of them” some men went crazy on the Internet. “Lummokzar vested in the thread that he is not sure of the real reason for DDOS, but he wrote that he heard a rumor that it started, and it is not really involved by biond;
Whatever touched it initially, the fire is still burning: Byond website Lives inaccessible, and as the latest update Ddos downtime megathredMitigation efforts are going on, but there is no ETA for complete restoration. One in Different thread Posted on 23 May, Lummoxjr stated that they are “still working with the talk,” but also took a kind of bright-side scene of ongoing dirt.
“I know that the current situation has pushed many of us in close contact with normal, and in many ways it is a good thing,” he wrote. “But some people are hot in new places, especially thinking that they have a new idea that is not really new. I know it comes from a good place. Let’s just remember each other to take a little extra and show respect.”
And there is good news for those who actually use bide, it is not out of access: the website is below, but parts of it, including parts, bug reports and downloads, are now being hosted now Strings,