Attempting to register but get error: We’ve detected abusive activity on your IP address.
Just sent you a private message. Are you using a VPN or something similar?
@matt Same problem here. I got the message “We’ve detected abusive activity on your IP address.” when I tryed to sign up. I did not use VPN. And as my remember, after I touched register button, writing page as anonymous was appeared. After this, I tryed to return to sign up page, by pressing previous page button from my browser, and input ID that I want and password again, and I saw that message. Maybe problem about redirecting or similar?
Just sent you a private message!
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i got same problem when i create a post by api with a url inside title.
and if i put a url inside content , api rejected my request
The same exact issue is happening with me as well, @matt . I am not using a VPN. I’ve tried on Firefox and Brave. I prefer to use Brave but I guess it’s not supported? 
It seems like I can’t click on any of the buttons in Brave on your site.
I am unable to publish anything or log in.
Hmm, the site should work fine on Brave! What error exactly are you seeing when trying to sign up?
Brave is my default browser and I have zero issues with Write.as in that browser. So something else must be going on.
Same error, from 73.137.147.123 which is a Comcast IP, no VPN, using Firefox 131.0.3 (64-bit) on macOS Ventura 13.6.4 (22G513). I guess @matt is the one who can help?
First attempt submitted the form and got this:
Second attempt only got as far as autofilling the new username and password my browser had saved from the first attempt, and the form showed this:
(I tried to attach another screenshot, but I guess that’s banned too)
Found this thread and tried to reply but when it prompted me to log in I figured that won’t work if I’m banned so I went hunting for any other way to contact you, and Contact Us — Write.as was not helpful, tho I guess I could have emailed abuse@ as a last resort. Going through all the tabs I’d opened I found support@ mentioned at Security: email addresses of subscribers are public to all Write.as users - #3 by writeprivacy, so was going to email that, but decided I might as well see if the create account with a different UI works, and it did. But then trying to log in to (I tried to link to your homepage, but I guess that’s banned too) said my account doesn’t exist, so I guess I have to have two separate accounts? This is going to be confusing in my password manager.
Last attempt to create a “real” account didn’t give the warning in the form, but gave a more polished fuck-off message than the first attempt:
(I tried to attach another screenshot…)
I’ve read your guidelines, I don’t see how I could have violated any of them without even creating an account, or how anything I would post would violate them - I expect to post things largely along the lines of my old abandoned blog at (I tried to link to my old blog…). Only one of my malware blockers is blocking anything on the sign-up page, potential trackers from stripe, I don’t know whether that affects this:
(I tried to attach another screenshot…)
What abuse did I commit to get banned? How could I avoid getting re-banned every time my IP changes?
We have automated systems in place on Write.as to prevent against automated signups, and it looks like you got caught up there. Some of those systems depend on Javascript, so if you’re seeing errors, that could get you flagged.
I’ve just un-banned your IP address on our end. Can you try signing up again, making sure Javascript is enabled and you aren’t blocking any scripts?
I’ve never disabled javascript, I just use a few antimalware plugins. One of them is NoScript which typically blocks loading scripts from other domains, and I told it to allow scripts from writeas.app; if the domain were something like app.write.as it would be allowed by default. I also use Privacy Badger which blocks trackers, and for 4 different stripe domains I told it to block only cookies (I hope blocking those domains would only make payments fail, not using the site in general).
After adding those exceptions I was able to create an account. Thanks!
I hope you’ll improve at least the wording of your messages - using malware blockers is not abuse, and it doesn’t violate your guidelines.
Glad you were able to sign up! Unfortunately it’s tough for the software to determine who’s a bot and who is simply using tools like these, but agreed that the messaging could be improved. We’ll address that – I appreciate the feedback!