Adding 2 and 2...

[kot_ivanovich]

1. The friends page brings quite a few messages from Russian friends that they cannot post anything to their journals.
2. lj_maintenance  apologizes for the user troubles raising from the previously mentioned DDOS attacks impacting site performance.

The question to answer: Where those attacks are coming from?

Comments

[spamsink]

From people trying to retaliate for the deletion of "incest-promoting" users and groups, I guess.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/0329200

[kot_ivanovich]

Oh, that's an ongoing HUGE scandal, so you might be right. On the other hand, the previously mentioned DDOS attacks impacting site performance were against ru_nbp community...

[kot_ivanovich]

BTW, it's back again - I could not submit the previous comment until I made the underscore in "ru_nbp" italic....