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Comment by alienth | Hacker News Reader

We're mostly recovered, at this time.

How certain are you guys that it wasn't the sheer levels of traffic due to the ongoing Boston situation?

Certain beyond any shadow of doubt.

What are the indicators that this is a malicious DDoS attack rather than just unprecedented traffic from interest in the Boston manhunt?

Also, what reason is there for a DDoS attack on Reddit right now?

They're slamming over 20x our normal bandwidth with URL containing things such as "boston", "your_gay", etc.

Maybe government doesn't want redditers countering their official narrative regarding the suspects

You might be overzealous with your bot blocking. I'm being told I'm actually a robot:

    you appear to be a bad robot
    check out the rules for robots. thanks.

Same here, are you using RES or anything else which might increase request volume?

I use RES, not having any issues.

I believe I've had this happen when using a VPN service (though I could be mistaken)

Seems like you're still down...

now that is probably just getting back to their regular intermittent availability.