>PROTO was activated, probably means DDOS.
Which moar than likely means Jim has some sort of circuit breaker installed that trips Proto On.
The bigly yuge issue is it seems to get triggered by general volume spikes and not any specific DDOS traget vectors.
Like those that occur when anons and whomever else start filing in during habbenings spiking the ppm.
So....
If the status quo remains in place moving forward...
Expect QR to be Proto Only (basically ded) during any kind of traffic spike.