A short 2024-04-07 outage was caused by rapid-fire coordinated scraping that included expensive requests like /?by=name&letter=W&q=1pocS.
By email, @mo-nathan suggests:
Apr 8, 2024, 6:03 AM (1 day ago)
I do think it’s reasonable to require a login for costly database queries as well as outright preventing rapid fire scraping. We just need to have reasonable behavior for non-logged in humans. We should talk it over sometime soon.
A short 2024-04-07 outage was caused by rapid-fire coordinated scraping that included expensive requests like
/?by=name&letter=W&q=1pocS. By email, @mo-nathan suggests: