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I had the same issue late afternoon yesterday. I resubmitted a couple of times, eventually I was successful and the problem went away. Haven't seen it since.

It seems all is Ok now.

AOU said there was an internet break down in Europe.

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We're lucky POAL isn't under direct attack like VOAT experienced so often 2018-2021. DDoS, flood it with raunchy porn, every nasty thing they could do to disable VOAT. I've never seen anything like it before or since.

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It actually is, but I use some custom protections. Our host also has an anti-DDoS later running.

Anyone with a little experience could take voat down. It was so poorly coded, they supposedly needed thousands of dollars per month to pay for a decent hosting that could handle the resources hungry code.

I keep getting

We're doing some maintenance and will be back soon™

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I don't see anything particularly related in the logs.

This is probably your VTSD kicking in. ;)

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Thanks.

I could see others posting, but I was unable to.

Hence the question.

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Well it seems I can reply to posts etc but cannot post new articles??????

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I can see you tried posting in /s/Australia but your connection did time out and reset on your side (could be your ISP having issues and dropping connections).

What did you try to post? Image? Link?