Disqus incident

Working to remove a new pattern of spam

Resolved after 1 day 20 hours, affecting Admin and Embed, on April 25, 2018.

identified Apr 25, 2018, 12:16 AM UTC

We identified a new, high volume, spam pattern today that is currently affecting some sites on Disqus. Currently we are working to resolve this issue and apologize for the inconvenience. This includes blacklisting the pattern so new posts don't display, deleting spam posts from today, and temporarily disabling editing of posts that are more than 2 days old.

Started
Apr 25, 2018, 12:16 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 26, 2018, 09:05 PM UTC
Duration
1d 20h
Detected by Pingoru
Apr 25, 2018, 12:16 AM UTC

Affected components

AdminEmbed

Update timeline

  1. identified Apr 25, 2018, 12:16 AM UTC

    We identified a new, high volume, spam pattern today that is currently affecting some sites on Disqus. Currently we are working to resolve this issue and apologize for the inconvenience. This includes blacklisting the pattern so new posts don't display, deleting spam posts from today, and temporarily disabling editing of posts that are more than 2 days old.

  2. resolved Apr 26, 2018, 09:05 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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