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2023-12-12 — DDOS Attacks - December, 2023

The nixos.wiki is experiencing a significant upsurge in attacks, which have notably impacted our infrastructure. In the past day, these attacks have increasingly resulted in timeouts, particularly noticeable while editing wiki pages.

To counteract this, we’ve implemented new security protocols. These measures are more robust and aggressive, specifically designed to mitigate these attacks. We anticipate that for most users, these changes will be transparent and not impede normal wiki usage.

However, there’s an important caveat for users accessing our wiki via specific cloud providers (source of recent attacks). Such traffic will now trigger interactive challenges from Cloudflare. This is a permanent change to ensure the integrity and availability of our wiki for all users. We understand this may cause inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

2023-09-09 — Upcoming Infrastructure Changes at nixos.wiki - September, 2023

Over the past few months, nixos.wiki has been dealing with increased levels of attacks ranging from basic to complex ones targeting the database. Thankfully, we have support from Cloudflare (sponsoring their services), which helps us counteract a large part of these attacks.

Despite this help, some attacks reach our backend, so we have decided to migrate to a different setup to better protect the wiki and keep it operational. This means there might be a few downtimes in the weeks ahead. We will keep you posted on the timings here in the news section.

2021-09-24 — Nix web highlights - September, 2021

We are halfway between releases right now. Porcupine for the holidays. Some highlights of Nix around the web this month:

• Statistics on the 100 most frequently set NixOS options
• Call for a 21.11 (Porcupine) release manager is open
• Using Home Manager with Flakes keeps getting more coverage
• Popular flake templating library, flake-utils-plus, sees v1.2.0 release

2019-06-02 — Google Index Issues

The visibility of nixos.wiki pages in Google search results drastically dropped around 21st of May. The reason is still unknown.

2017-10-08 — Integration issues resolved

Login links now work as they previously did. They are found both in the header and the footer.

Edit button now shows combined with actions and is available in the footer.

2017-10-02 — New Wiki theme activated

We activated the theme proposed by samueldr (issue #7)

Login links can be found in the footer

2017-06-28 — Login via GitHub has been enabled

We are still working out some kinks. If you encounter any errors please contact User:Fadenb

2017-08-21 — More content

The content of nixos-users' wiki is already integrated