cloudburstsys

[cloudburstsys]

*noms on the ocean fibre internet cables*

mmm light snack

[cloudburstsys]

it depends on tumblr's infrastructure

if tumblr has ddos protection nothing much will happen, tumblr staff will just believe someone tried to hit them with a ddos attack and failed

if tumblr doesn't have ddos protection but they globally ratelimits posts, many users will encounter Too Many Requests errors but tumblr itself will be unharmed

however if tumblr does not have ddos protection and they dont globally ratelimit posts, the sudden extra load on their api infrastructure will cause 1 of 2 things to happen:

• if tumblr does not autoscale their services, it will cause all the nodes serving the api to collapse, rendering tumblr's frontend unusable. if the infrastructure is badly designed, this can cascade throughout their entire network and completly bring tumblr offline

• however, if they do autoscale their services, there will be a huge api latency increase then it will calm down as the infrastructure automatically scales in enough api nodes to handle the requests

in conclusion, it all depends on the internal workings of tumblr and it'll either do nothing, result in users encountering ratelimits, users experiencing large delays in page responsiveness, or result in a complete failure of tumblr's frontend and maybe even their backend

Could we crash tumblr if we all posted the word "crash" on the 1st of april 2022, 12:35 EST?

[cloudburstsys]

tumblrs biggest mistake was giving me html access to my page

i can edit HTML, CSS, and JS with this

and there is no CORS policy

i can inject my own code hehehe