Last month we saw over 6,000 new users!
Unfortunately, a huge change like that doesn't usually mean we're suddenly immensely popular and successful with everyone, but rather with spammers. Spending some time putting in more prevention measures.
Luckily most spammers follow similar patterns, and aren't very persistent. So every few months I get an influx and have to take a scalpel the points in the app where we accept data (posts or users), and gently block them without affecting thousands of normal users.
Again, not too difficult because spammers (especially pastebin spammers) also don't put a lot of effort into their spam. They usually have a signature.
