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Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're

by raybb 6mo ago

Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. The website is constantly under attack from DDoS, and we're always improving, but it's a long road. I'm just a volunteer, but a very active one.

throwa356262 6mo ago
What kind of volunteering is needed?
- raybb 6mo ago
  Just posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466
tmountain 6mo ago
Jeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?
- trinix912 6mo ago
  Could it just be insanely intense nonstop crawling? I've seen it on some other sites.
  - raybb 6mo ago
    It can be that but sometimes it's nonsense queries being spammed from many IP addresses too.
- YesThatTom2 6mo ago
  I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc
mikestew 6mo ago
Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. I made a good-faith effort at searching the site for anything requesting volunteer work, and came up empty. Got a pointer? What are they looking for?
- raybb 6mo ago
  https://openlibrary.org/volunteer https://openlibrary.org/volunteer is the general page but I'm assuming you want the technical stuff so https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/C... I'm a very active volunteer and can always use the help of folks that have tech experience already. We get lots of student volunteers that require a lot of work to shepherd. As such, issues tend to be claimed pretty fast but also medium sized ones don't always get through the finish line. Anyway, if you're seriously willing to commit some time you can tag me on their slack/github (@raybb). I'm currently doing a lot of performance related work (primarily migrating their codebase to fastapi) and I could use help but don't always open issues for it because sometimes guiding a non-experienced person is more work than just doing it. There's also quite some design work going on to move things into the modern age and more reliable. One small thing that comes to mind is getting rid of jquery where it's used casually (not where a library depends on it). We have a few files like that. Happy to chat more with anyone who is seriously willing to spend time to tackle medium sized issues with a few rounds of feedback!

by raybb 6mo ago

throwa356262 6mo ago

What kind of volunteering is needed?

raybb 6mo ago
Just posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709466

tmountain 6mo ago

Jeeze, what’s the motivation to DDoS a service like this?

trinix912 6mo ago
Could it just be insanely intense nonstop crawling? I've seen it on some other sites.
- raybb 6mo ago
  It can be that but sometimes it's nonsense queries being spammed from many IP addresses too.
YesThatTom2 6mo ago
I will speculate the DDOS attacks are funded by companies and governments that benefit from not being held accountable for their past deeds. I suspect X, Google, China, PRNK, Hungary, etc

mikestew 6mo ago

Money is great, and they're also looking for volunteers all the time to help out with Open Library. I made a good-faith effort at searching the site for anything requesting volunteer work, and came up empty. Got a pointer? What are they looking for?

raybb 6mo ago
https://openlibrary.org/volunteer https://openlibrary.org/volunteer is the general page but I'm assuming you want the technical stuff so https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/blob/master/C... I'm a very active volunteer and can always use the help of folks that have tech experience already. We get lots of student volunteers that require a lot of work to shepherd. As such, issues tend to be claimed pretty fast but also medium sized ones don't always get through the finish line. Anyway, if you're seriously willing to commit some time you can tag me on their slack/github (@raybb). I'm currently doing a lot of performance related work (primarily migrating their codebase to fastapi) and I could use help but don't always open issues for it because sometimes guiding a non-experienced person is more work than just doing it. There's also quite some design work going on to move things into the modern age and more reliable. One small thing that comes to mind is getting rid of jquery where it's used casually (not where a library depends on it). We have a few files like that. Happy to chat more with anyone who is seriously willing to spend time to tackle medium sized issues with a few rounds of feedback!