Overview
Let staff restrict a provider for a while, for example during an attack.
Restrictions let staff limit a provider while the network runs, without editing files or restarting. A restriction is turned on with a command and lasts until staff lift it or it expires.
Identica has one kind of restriction today: join restriction, which closes a provider to new joins except for players it trusts.
How long a restriction lasts
A restriction lasts until staff lift it or toggleTtl in features/restriction/settings passes, 365 days by default, whichever comes first.
Restrictions are not stored in the database:
- With replication, they live in Redis. Every proxy of the network sees a restriction as soon as it is turned on or lifted, and a restarted proxy keeps seeing it while Redis keeps it.
- Without replication, they live in the proxy's memory, so restarting the proxy lifts every restriction. Turn them on again after a restart.
Turning restrictions off
enabled: false in features/restriction/settings turns off every kind of restriction, for every provider. A provider's features.restriction.enabled: false turns them off for that provider only.
See Restriction settings for every setting.