Do you have a Patreon or buymeacoffee page to help with the costs?
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Thank you for your efforts and cloud spending to keep this site running. I hope the cause can be figured out quickly so that you can rest easy.
Could this lemmy.ca post be relevant? https://kbin.earth/m/main@lemmy.ca/t/1344235/FYI-a-significant-chunk-of-Chinese-IP-space-has-been
Thanks for your efforts. Has the time come to put Anubis in front of the site to block LLM scrapers?
This might interfere with API users.
I think it's worth looking into pros and cons, though. The scrapers are taking their toll on web UI users as well, so I guess something has to be done.
Right. Maybe protect just the Web UI and not the API. The API can only be used with an API-Key, so the scrapers should not be able to do much with it.
Thank you for the heads up. I have seen slow downs since yesterday. Some images come up pretty quick but others take a while. I guess the quick ones are already cached on kbin's server?