All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VI

[GethN7]

I've had to tell people elsewhere to refrain doing a "who benefits?" analysis of the repeated prolonged DDoS attacks.

But telling other people that made me wonder myself. (It isn't as if I can spend the time editing the wikis...) Whatever the truth may be, the appearance is that the non-Wikia copy of ATT is under attack no matter where it's hosted while the Wikia copy is doing just fine... and Wikia does have a reputation (rightly or wrongly) of not playing well with folks who want to have their wikis hosted elsewhere.

I hope this is just muddying the waters and not a "blue hair" moment.

 

Rob, I can't say everything here, but I can rule that out as a motive. In fact, I've been working with a few other parties localizing the source of the attacks, and I can say it's not them, TV Tropes, someone pissed about the fork of Metapedia that was hosted on Orain (they were denied a wiki on Miraheze anyway), or anyone from any of the hacker communities (checked them, even most of the deep web ones).

Also, even sterner countermeasures to blunt this nonsense are going up soon.