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I believe if you read carefully, it's not blocked, it's rate limited to once daily, with very clear remediation steps included in the response.
by garfij 2y ago
I believe if you read carefully, it's not blocked, it's rate limited to once daily, with very clear remediation steps included in the response.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoIf you understand what rate limiting is, you block them for a period of time. Let's stop being pedantic here. 72 requests per day is nothing and acting like it's mayhem is a bit silly. And for a lot of people would result in them getting possible news slower. Sure OP won't publish that often but their rate limiting is an edge case and should be treated as such. If they're blocked until the next day and nothing gets updated then the only person harmed is OP for being overly bothered by their HTTP logs. Sure it's their server and they can do whatever they want. But all this does is hurts the people trying to reach their blog.
- HomeDeLaPot 2y ago72 requests per day _per user with a naive feed reader_. This is a small personal blog with no ads that OP is self-hosting on her own hardware, so blocking all this junk traffic is probably saving her money. Plus she's calling attention to how feed readers can be improved!
- that_guy_iain 2y agoEven if they had 1000 feed readers which would be a massive amount for a blog, if you can't scale that cheaply, that's on you. As I pointed out, her blog and rate limiting are an extreme edge case, it would be silly for anyone to put effort into changing their feed reader for a single small blog. It's bad product management.
- tecleandor 2y agoOf course she can. It's static. She doesn't want and I understand. She's signaling their clients an standard call to say "I think you already have read this, at lest ask me first when this changed the last time".
- that_guy_iain 2y agoIf you choose to run a poorly implemented rss feed and not scale it cheaply you lose any sympathy from me.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoSo long as you know what If-Modified-Since is, and use it, you can have all or none of the sympathy you want.
- m3047 2y agoMy reason for smacking stuff down is that I don't want to see it in my logs. That simple.
- throw0101b 2y ago> 72 requests per day is nothing and acting like it's mayhem is a bit silly. 72 requests per day per IP over how many IPs? When you start multiplying numbers together they can get big.
- quest88 2y agoI invite you to run your own popular blog on your own hardware and pay for the costs. It sounds like you don't know what the true costs are.
- Twirrim 2y agoOP has never said that this is about financial aspects of things.
- Joker_vD 2y agoYews, it's about enforcing their preference on how others should interact with OP's published site feed, on principle. Which is always an uphill battle.
- Twirrim 2y agoIt's about enforcing that people follow standards. Which is still an uphill battle, but at least it's based in something sane. Their work on this has resulted in improvements to a whole slew of popular feed readers that should make life easier for a chunk of the internet, not just OP's own site.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoSounds like you don't know how to scale for cheap. And since I've ran integrations that connected over 500 companies. I know what a rouge client actually looks like and 72 requests per day and I wouldn't even notice.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoGood on you champ.
- donatj 2y agoI do run a popular blog, and a $5 a month Digital Ocean droplet handles millions of requests per month without breaking a sweat.