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Girish Ramakrishnan, Co-founder of Cloudron - https://cloudron.io

Cloudron is a platform for self-hosting web apps.

https://cloudron.io/blog/2016-08-24-introducing.html

Bio at https://www.girish.in/about/

Email: girish@cloudron.io

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Nextcloud Hub 21 5 years ago

The Linux client can connect to multiple nextcloud instances. Its been that way for years.

Lionel Messi. He recently even surpassed most goals for a club. He was touted as maradona successor which is an impossible bar and he has lived up to it. In contrast, not a single "messi" successor is even remotely close to him.

If this had happened on self hosted email server, people would be claiming "this is why you don't self-host email". My company self hosts email and we have never had an outage of this sort. ever. All support emails to gmail accounts are now bouncing for us. It's also been more than 2 hours since this problem started.

I know this because in our forum we have LOTS of "spam" users - https://forum.cloudron.io/users . These users will go into posts and actually make "helpful" comments. Like, "Oh I tried this solution but I found that my disk my full. Deleting data fixed my problem". It almost seems genuine but they build reputation and once they have some votes, they go back and edit all the comments to have links.

I am not entirely sure. See https://forum.cloudron.io/users, if you go to say page 10 or something you will see all sorts of nonsense. I am still trying to figure what the best way to fight this spam (because captcha is enabled and required to even create accounts). But these are real people and not bots. I know this because they even post new messages all the time.

The spam is infuriating (not GitLab's fault, of course). Atleast, on our instance at https://git.cloudron.io, we got massive snippet spam. After we disabled snippets, we got massive spam on the issue tracker (!). The way we "fixed" is by turning on mandatory 2FA for all users.

As a general lesson, what we learnt is these are not bots. These are real humans working in some poor country manually creating accounts (always gmail accounts) and pasting all sorts of random text. Some of these people even setup 2FA and open issues with junk text, it's amazing. Unfortunately, GitLab from what I can tell cannot make issues read-only to non project members (i.e I only want project members to open issues, others can just read and watch issues).

Currently, our forum spam (https://forum.cloudron.io) is way more than GitLab spam. On the forum, we even have Captcha enabled (something we despise) but even that doesn't help when there are real humans at work.