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Does this author have a big pre-established audience or something? Struggling to understand why this is front-page worthy.
by CuriouslyC 9mo ago
Does this author have a big pre-established audience or something? Struggling to understand why this is front-page worthy.
- bibimsz 9mo agothe era of mourning has begun
- fouc 9mo agobecause he's unable to self-host git anymore because AI bots are hammering it to submit PRs. self-hosting was originally a "right" we had upon gaining access to the internet in the 90s, it was the main point of the hyper text transfer protocol.
- geerlingguy 9mo agoAlso converting the blog from something dynamic to a static site generator. I made the same switch partly for ease of maintenance, but a side benefit is it's more resilient to this horrible modern era of scrapers far outnumbering legitimate traffic. It's painful to have your site offline because a scraper has channeled itself 17,000 layers deep through tag links (which are set to nofollow, and ignored in robots.txt, but the scraper doesn't care). And it's especially annoying when that happens on a daily basis. Not everyone wants to put their site behind Cloudflare.
- tanduv 9mo agosorry if i missed it, but the original post doesn't say anything about PRs... the bots only seem to be scraping the content
- fouc 9mo agooh you're right, I read "pointless requests" as "PRs", oops!
- jaunt7632 9mo ago[dead]
- ares623 9mo agoWell the fact that this supposed nobody is overwhelmed by AI scrapers should speak a lot about the issue no?
- bombcar 8mo agoBecause anyone who has a website of any complexity has noticed this - we have increased bot traffic across ALL sites and it’s even come close to knocking a few over - now mitigated.