Error messages navigating Saidit

submitted by ManWithABanana from self.SaidIt

For the past week I've been getting HTTP 429 errors (Googling says this means too many requests) viewing posts. Naturally, I can't reproduce it at will, but it happens frequently. Chrome browser on PC with Windows (10 and 7). It's something like this :

1.See the Envelope lighted up. Click on it.

2.Read reply and want to see more.

3.Click context, full comments, or permalink as desired.

4.429 error message.

I'm only clicking a few times, the error seems weird. Thanks !

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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thanks for the report. We had a bad DDOS last night where we blocked 368,000 fraudulent requests in just 1 hour. So you can imagine the importance of the anti-ddos protection we have, because the whole website would go down for hours otherwise. The downside to this protection is occasionally things happen like you mentioned. We're still getting everything dialed in with our new anti-ddos protection we built, so reports like this are helpful.

One question, if you do the same things, but more slowly (like 2 seconds between each click) can you cause the error to occur again?

Paging /u/d3rr please check out the OP for more info about how we can tweak our 429 settings, thanks!

[–]ManWithABanana[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Speedy or slow clicking leads to no errors right now. Possibly it's only my work computer. Maybe my employer does something that Saidit doesn't like with the traffic.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the test

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same, on Mozilla it just goes white screen when clicking <context ..not always tho. Might be the anti ddos measures.