I wonder what caused the outage of the site and that caused maintenance. Its good to be back online, as this is the a massive golden database of knowledge of all things RC flying related.
Yes, indeed good to be back. It was a serious attack.
Here's the whole story:
[08/07, 7:34 pm] K K Iyer: 100s OF SPAM POSTS TODAY. BIG ATTACK!
[08/07, 7:35 pm] Anwar P P RCI: Hi. Will check. Traveling
[08/07, 7:44 pm] K K Iyer: New posts coming faster than I can ban and delete
[08/07, 7:58 pm] K K Iyer: URGENT I think you will have to shut down the site for some time.
[08/07, 7:58 pm] Anwar P P RCI: I am working on it
[08/07, 8:04 pm] Anwar P P RCI: New member registration is disabled
[08/07, 8:08 pm] K K Iyer: Great. Can you ban all new registrations & delete all posts of today? Over 200 posts, so not easy for me to ban/ delete posts manually.
[08/07, 9:23 pm] Anwar P P RCI: Yes
[08/07, 9:24 pm] Anwar P P RCI: Working on it, all users deleted but posts did not get deleted
[08/07, 9:24 pm] Anwar P P RCI: Need to figure out how to delete posts by anonymous
[08/07, 9:27 pm] K K Iyer: If necessary I'll spend some time tomorrow and delete them manually
[08/07, 9:45 pm] Anwar P P RCI: No need
[08/07, 10:15 pm] Anwar P P RCI: I will figure it out
[08/07, 10:16 pm] Anwar P P RCI: Thank you
[08/07, 10:18 pm] K K Iyer: When you get time, please also enable jpeg upload.
Regards.
[10/07, 4:40 pm] Anwar P P RCI: Looks like the spam posts are gone
[10/07, 5:14 pm] K K Iyer: Wow, YES!
Great. They were still there one hour ago, and i had deleted a few manually to test. So you found a way to delete en masse!
Wow! That was some attack!
Thank you Iyer Sir, and Anwar Sir, for working so hard to keep this forum alive and active.
Thanks sir for letting this world Alive