It's a shame that so many niche websites have no other choice than moving to Cloudflare.
> "In the process of mitigating, migrating, and updating things, we’ve made a lot of upgrades and improvements to the wiki and infrastructure: Automatic blocking of many bots and other nuisances, including Tor exit nodes"
Is this supposed to be a good thing? What's the point of blocking Tor here?
Tor is one of those things that is nice in theory but, in my experience, tends to consist of about 20% legitimate users, 30% garbage traffic, and (most importantly) 50% specific, persistent, ban-dodging personas non grata.
There are only so many days one wants to wake up and click "delete user" 20 times for the latest batch of slur-filled trash from tor-exit-48012480.r0ck3t.ballz.
timpera · · focus · HN ↗
> "In the process of mitigating, migrating, and updating things, we’ve made a lot of upgrades and improvements to the wiki and infrastructure: Automatic blocking of many bots and other nuisances, including Tor exit nodes"
Is this supposed to be a good thing? What's the point of blocking Tor here?
Xkeeper · · focus · HN ↗
There are only so many days one wants to wake up and click "delete user" 20 times for the latest batch of slur-filled trash from tor-exit-48012480.r0ck3t.ballz.