Nairaland Experiences Downtime Amid Hacking Concerns, Social Media Users React

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Nairaland Seun Osewa

Nairaland, a popular Nigerian forum website, was taken down on Monday after its founder, Seun Osewa, admitted that he had overlooked an abuse report.

Osewa said in a statement that he had received a report about offensive content on the site, but he did not take it seriously enough. He said that he should have removed the content immediately, but he did not.

As a result, the site’s host, Cloudflare, took down Nairaland’s server. Osewa said that he has since removed the offensive content and is working with Cloudflare to get the site back up.

In a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, the founder explained that though the said offensive content had been removed, the server user interface was still experiencing a delay.

Osewa posted, “Nairaland’s server was taken down because I overlooked an abuse report that was originally sent on the 14th. After the takedown, I removed the offensive content.

“The UI for bringing back the server didn’t work so it took hours to get support on how to get that done. Minutes after the forum was brought back, they took the server down again with no warning.

“I’m guessing that the content I removed was still cached on Cloudflare servers, so they could still see it. I have cleared the caches now, but they are not communicating. I hope they will communicate tomorrow.

“If you have any ideas for working with abuse teams, please share. My track record is abysmal.”

Meanwhile, Nairaland users have expressed their support for Osewa and have offered suggestions for how to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

Here are some posts:

https://twitter.com/seunosewa/status/1736873714170376605?t=rY9HGUUJ1_bUVgYaq8qGtw&s=19

https://twitter.com/docneto/status/1736987915777888375?t=2e1oMmG62BXuDpI3yX_WMw&s=19

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