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I’m sorry for not simply copying the text. There is some bug, and Firefox apparently does not paste my clipboard. Essentially someone is rather smart in free-riding the public instances from the cloud instead of simply setting up a cloud instance.
Presumably there is no easy way to identify the culprits, if only to try and bring them into a dialogue?
Have you discussed this with the cloud providers?
Thank you for the feedback.
This is a first response to keep the service available. There is indeed no reliable way to get in touch with people within short time. Part of the idea of starting a thread here in addition in the status page is to make people aware of the situation, both those users that wonder why the service got brittle and those that currently over-use the service.
Things I have in the log files are amongst other things the referrer and the user agent, and both are not set to anything significant here.
It can even be that it is not a strictly coordinates use and rather an amorphous group in the sense of a modified slashdot effect. A large and inefficient approach posted on a popular channel about Pokemon Go or so could absolutely end up like what happens now.
The idea behind the eight week window is to revive the branch for the GDPR to use OSM usernames to distribute resources. That would be somewhat reliable to get a contact.
But I will also pursue further the road of contacting the cloud providers. If this goes anywhere I will report progress at appropriate times.
The prime objective right now is ensure that the service remains available to the general public.