Reddit-rival,
Voat announced today that it is currently being hit in a DDoS (Distributed
Denial of Service) attack by hackers unknown.
For those who are unfamiliar with the sites; both Reddit and Voat act,
in essence, as online bulletin boards.
Users can post images, text and direct links, which are then voted up or
down to determine their position on the board.
The main selling point of Voat is that, unlike its Reddit counterpart,
in it maintains no censorship.
The
Swiss company posted on Twitter at midnight this morning that it is being hit
by an ongoing “layer 7 DDoS attack”, adding on its website that this is the indirect
reason for the halt in functionality of most of third party apps for Voat.
They
have “bumped up CloudFlare security settings...in order to keep Voat at least
somewhat responsive”. Unfortunately this
“essentially breaks most Voat third party apps currently on the market.” They ended with the question “What doesn't
kill you - makes you stronger, right?".
Currently
the website is loading temperamentally; however some users still see the
message "Voat is being kicked by a botnet right now.”
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