MX Linux forum was under a DDOS attack.

They have adopted Cloudflare and used IP blocking. This does not impact their repos, just the forum.

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What perceived slight from a Linux distro community could possibly convince some loser to DDOS them?
- Some salty Ubuntu fans, because MX is the top listed distro on Distrowatch. It would be hilarious if this is the real reason. A man can only dream. (Edit: I'm only joking off course.)
  
  It is indeed the top listed... kudos to them (or to whomever scripted downloads).
- Fam, people are insanely petty.... I frequent the pinephone channel rooms and I can almost predict when someone is about to post some toxic(sometimes illegal) shit there. All because someone didn't read and or doesn't have enough base Linux experience for such a janky phone and they're butt-hurt over their investment. Bless text only clients.
  
  We must return to IRC.
- Somebody testing their latest botnet before trying to monetize it?
- That’s what I came here to ask.
  
  someone asked a question and the only response was
  
  "man page"
I start to believe that Cloudflare is the one who does all the DDOS attacks.
- The mafia of the internet.
  
  They really aren't that far off... https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
- plausible
  
  Plausible? Implausible.
- This was my first thought as well. Then just hope you are a tru goodboi and the establishment doesn't stop taking kindly to you.
What an odd target.
What's that? Can't hear you over the din of volunteers trying to get all of the Internet Archive back online.

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