Does this author have a big pre-established audience or something? Struggling to understand why this is front-page worthy.

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jaunt7632 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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fouc 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

because 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.

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geerlingguy 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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.

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tanduv 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

sorry if i missed it, but the original post doesn't say anything about PRs... the bots only seem to be scraping the content

	▲	fouc 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		oh you're right, I read "pointless requests" as "PRs", oops!

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ares623 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well the fact that this supposed nobody is overwhelmed by AI scrapers should speak a lot about the issue no?

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bibimsz 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the era of mourning has begun