sovietknuckles [they/them] to hexbear • 2 days ago

Hexbear blocked my VPN

sovietknuckles [they/them] to hexbear • 2 days ago

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I am not DOSing Hexbear, higher traffic from VPN IP addresses is expected because there's fewer IP addresses per user.

Rate limiting by IP address is an anti-privacy op

Edit: Maybe the rate limit can be increased for login requests?

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blunder [he/him]
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2 days ago
I had this happen too not on a VPN. I think it is just a site hiccup happening recently

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