Comment on old.lemmy.world no longer works without javascript, defeating its purpose
lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThank you for your in depth explanation.
due to the structure of the page it’s a very attractive crawler target
Would you say the old “mlmym” design is more attractive than the new design?
I don’t have the historical comparison to fully understand the chart. Are you saying most of the blue requests are bots? Can you estimate how much it would cost to serve all the bot requests, and enable js-free old.lemmy.world? How much a prestige old web tax would be?
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
anything that is plain html and doesn’t need js is more attractive for crawlers than things that aren’t plain html.
this doesn’t provide much historical context, it’s just for the last 7 days
one way or another, yes. we definitely don’t have that many legitimate users trying to access it and then stopping when they get a cloudflare challenge.
currently no. this was a quick fix implemented when it got to the point that we couldn’t handle the traffic anymore and lemmy.world was getting outages from the load caused by these criminals. the amount of crawler traffic we see also gets spikes here and there, so what might be enough today might not be enough tomorrow. they just don’t care about anything but themselves.