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garfij | 1 year ago

I believe if you read carefully, it's not blocked, it's rate limited to once daily, with very clear remediation steps included in the response.

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that_guy_iain|1 year ago

If you understand what rate limiting is, you block them for a period of time. Let's stop being pedantic here.

72 requests per day is nothing and acting like it's mayhem is a bit silly. And for a lot of people would result in them getting possible news slower. Sure OP won't publish that often but their rate limiting is an edge case and should be treated as such. If they're blocked until the next day and nothing gets updated then the only person harmed is OP for being overly bothered by their HTTP logs.

Sure it's their server and they can do whatever they want. But all this does is hurts the people trying to reach their blog.

HomeDeLaPot|1 year ago

72 requests per day _per user with a naive feed reader_. This is a small personal blog with no ads that OP is self-hosting on her own hardware, so blocking all this junk traffic is probably saving her money. Plus she's calling attention to how feed readers can be improved!

throw0101b|1 year ago

> 72 requests per day is nothing and acting like it's mayhem is a bit silly.

72 requests per day per IP over how many IPs? When you start multiplying numbers together they can get big.

quest88|1 year ago

I invite you to run your own popular blog on your own hardware and pay for the costs. It sounds like you don't know what the true costs are.