Comment on "Bots temporarily blocked?"
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We are temp blocking most bot traffic for now, due to it causing a lot of slowness on LW. Please don’t change your user agent string to get around it, that would be very bad.
We can turn it back on and see if things still slow to a crawl again.
It’s nothing personal, just trying to look out for the human users on the site.
Any questions feel free to DM me.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You saw that this isn’t a “bot” in the normal sense of the word, but just a kbin instance doing federation, right?
I mean I’m fine with however you want to limit access; I’ll leave it as “kbinBot” so it’ll get blocked, if that’s really what you want, but completely preventing a kbin instance from federating with lemmy.world because of how the user-agent looks seems like maybe not the right thing to do. (Assuming that’s what’s going on – kbin.social identifies itself as kbinBot also, and its posts seem like they’re going through, so maybe I’m just misunderstanding something about the situation.)
Rooki@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We say “Bot” to everything not user/frontend interaction. It was just in the last time very much. Almost up to 2.7 million. If we didnt knew it was “just the federation” we thought we would get ddosed. After we actived the “Bot” blocking it went under 500 active connections per hour.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey, I added a exception for kbin and mbin bots, so you should be good now. It was never meant to be a permanent block, just technical testing. Also I did specifically allow kbin.social as well a few days ago, so they should have been fine.
Please let me know if you have any technical issues going forward 💗
-Jelloeater
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ayyy, that’s wonderful! Thank you, that’s awesome. It still doesn’t work (my log says things like "failed: Failed to get chain object lemmy.world/comment/6479326"), but presumably that’s a problem on the kbin side, and I’m happy digging into it and seeing what I can find. If I have any questions or anything I’ll reach out, and thanks again for the quick response + resolution.