Silberengel @Silberengel - 2mo
Some of the dev reactions to ReplyGuy made it clear that they aren't used to working with professional testers, as that was like QA 101. Probably took him a couple of hours, to set that up. Lots of software teams have bots like that running all day, ramping the frequency and number up-n-down, to test the server's ability to adjust to changes in load (scalability, resilience, etc.). This is Beginner's Internet sort of stuff that decentralization, micropayments, personal curation, and self-sovereignty are actually supposed to help solve. Any internet-open server can easily be attacked. These are things that you should be planning for and have an automatic response to. Or they take you down.
For the record: I am building an extensive, professional-quality, fully-automated, test landscape for our #Alexandria and #GitRepublic projects, and all associated relays. And my repos are FOSS, and I'm going to design them to be easily forked-and-customized. That means I can use it to expertly test our products, as if I were a crazy hacker. It also means that a real, actual, crazy hacker can use those same tools to test ANY APP and ANY RELAY, so long as he has a computer, can read my clear instructions, and doesn't have shit for brains. You're welcome.
