We've initially thought it was a DDoS attack - this is the first thought when an immediate sustained surge in search requests happens. Requests were counted somewhere between 160 to even 200 thousands daily. This is an unprecedented growth - we were noting 300 to 400 (not thousands of) searches daily. Some things I could recall before this happened, is that @lukaso666 was seeking for Esperanto translations (thank you!) proofreading, and some singular mentions about us to other fediverse users.
As we do not maintain anything else in the SoMe world besides our fediverse presence, it is unknown whether someone popular outside of this bubble found out our search engine and mentioned us.
We will be continuing works on the infrastructure later this evening or tomorrow.
EDIT: the last update of our statistics brought us a new record 🎉
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