[Leica] Why you can’t get into the gallery

[Brian Reid]

I’ve looked hard at commercial photo sites. The problem with them is 
they all require people to have accounts on the site, and those accounts 
cost money. The reason I went with this software 20 years ago was that 
everyone could use it without subscribing or paying. It might be that 
those innocent days are over; I haven’t yet given up on the idea of a 
“prove you are not a robot” front end to a freeware gallery site.

On 2026-05-12 17:08, Leo Wesson via LUG wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Any thoughts about moving the lug gallery to a commercial venue, maybe
> something like Smugmug?
> 
> How secure do you think Smugmug is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Leo Wesson
> 817-733-9157
> Leo at leowesson.com
> 
>> On May 12, 2026, at 6:54 PM, Marty Deveney via LUG 
>> <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Sheesh.  Thank you, good luck!
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, 13 May 2026 at 7:56 am, Brian Reid 
>>> <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The LUG gallery server is under such heavy attack that I can't even 
>>> get
>>> into it to try mitigating somehow.
>>> The "attacks" are AI robots extracting images to load into their
>>> software.
>>> 
>>> Here is a load listing of the servers in the data center rack holding
>>> the gallery server. The numbers are 1, 5, and 15-minute loads. Any
>>> number bigger than 2 will start to show slowness.
>>> 
>>> backup4    up  514+16:44,  0 users,  load  0.90,  0.55,  0.45
>>> gallery    up    1+17:21,  0 users,  load 67.30, 66.36, 68.02
>>> justus     up  224+23:00,  0 users,  load  0.12,  0.20,  0.21
>>> justus2    up   10+17:49,  0 users,  load  0.00,  0.00,  0.00
>>> justus3    up 2118+05:19,  0 users,  load  0.19,  0.20,  0.21
>>> lfinfo3    up       2:34,  2 users,  load  0.37,  0.25,  0.23
>>> mejac      up  514+16:57,  0 users,  load  0.15,  0.24,  0.24
>>> s21        up  280+09:21,  0 users,  load  1.80,  1.86,  1.69
>>> s22        up   24+13:18,  0 users,  load  0.87,  0.58,  0.46
>>> s24        up  514+16:27,  0 users,  load  0.33,  0.29,  0.25
>>> server1    up  755+00:37,  1 user,   load  0.29,  0.15,  0.09
>>> vrx        up  478+17:28,  0 users,  load  0.11,  0.15,  0.15
>>> www        up  223+22:46,  0 users,  load  0.27,  0.47,  0.49
>>> 
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