A healthy front page shouldn’t be a “famous people only” section. If only big names can show up there, it’s not discovery anymore, it’s just a popularity scoreboard.
replybecause he's unable to self-host git anymore because AI bots are hammering it to submit PRs.
replyself-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.
Also 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.
replyIt'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.
sorry if i missed it, but the original post doesn't say anything about PRs... the bots only seem to be scraping the content
replyoh you're right, I read "pointless requests" as "PRs", oops!
replyWell the fact that this supposed nobody is overwhelmed by AI scrapers should speak a lot about the issue no?
replythe era of mourning has begun
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