Edit (18th): Get fucked DDOSER. My middle finger is directed at you, while my dick is directed inside your mother.
It just got 10X times harder to take down an existing connection to Dread. You will probably still get timeout issues (more so now) accessing Dread but grab a new identity and you will hopefully get to the captcha. It will still be slower than I would like soon enough I'll tweak this introduction process around the ring we will be basically impossible to take down (unless the Tor network goes down). At least that is the hope.
I would also like to give a big shout out to the amount of support we have got during this downtime. People hate us going down as much as we hate it happening. Makes it all worth it when we get it all done. We will be working multiple days to stabilize this process to keep uptime high and improve reach-ability.
It's interesting to see the change on the Tor network when the attack on Dread started: https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf-failures.html?start=2022-09-01&end=2022-09-18 (metrics lag behind about two days). It won't get much better until the attack stops or POW happens. We need about 800 more GUARD nodes on the Tor network so if just a portion of the people in the community can just open up one guard node we will have more than plenty. You can see instructions to do so here. Make sure not to open up too many guard nodes at the same time with the same IP subnet or host (they will be flagged as bad nodes and won't be added!). If you want Dread online that is the single best thing you can do for us. These circuit failures are fucking up so much in the background.
It's a battle and the Tor network is the limit.
Dread is receiving money from DNM for advertising, what makes the platform somewhat illegal too.
Also, if /u/hugbunter is connected to other DNM like WHM or AlphaBay it makes sense that LE is trying to attack his network.
Also, whoelse could have the funds needed to do such a big DDOS attack?
