I love forums. I've kept the DIY Book Scanner forum online since... 2009? Recently (last two years) these damn AI scrapers have killed PHPBB over and over again

I love forums. I've kept the DIY Book Scanner forum online since... 2009? Recently (last two years) these damn AI scrapers have killed PHPBB over and over again. They got me kicked off my shared web hosting plan by abusing search and other forum features. I upgraded to VPS for $500. The other admin spent 15-20 hours fixing/troubleshooting/transferring. And you know what? At the end of all this, I paid to give my data to these jerks, to keep it online for them to harvest. The forums are dead quiet. Now I think, Discord is fine. They'll just sell the data to AI companies directly, the burden won't fall on me.