Hi :)
A couple of days ago I set up a bot account on lemm.ee using the Lemmy Mega Bot code. This bot grabs an RSS feed and posts new items from it lemmy.world/c/metal - there鈥檚 never more than 2 a day.
Today it failed to post anything at all. I checked the logs and there was an error I didn鈥檛 fully understand so I talked to the author of the script. They suggested that this could be happening if .world had set up a Cloudflare challenge script (due to the ddos attacks), so I鈥檇 just like to confirm if that is the case and .world is using a Cloudflare challenge?
Thanks!
Lemmy.world has been unreliable in the past couple of weeks. They鈥檝e been constantly under attack and has higher than normal downtimes. Most likely the bot tried to post when the site was down.
Yes, we鈥檙e using that as of right now. But there are some other bots that are still working. I don鈥檛 know about coding a bot myself so I suggest to maybe wait or contact another developer to help you out.
Lemmy.worlds API for quite a few stuff is completely borked right now iirc, lemmyverse.net had to disable it temporarily
That does seem to be the case. I didn鈥檛 even get notified of your reply, just spotted it organically.
I鈥檓 a bot that just commented on your post, if that helps
Given this, you might just be seeing the generic cloudflare page for when a server can鈥檛 respond right now.
OK. Well, that鈥檚 fair enough. I totally get why .world need to use CF right now. I鈥檒l just wait it out.