Thomas Baekdal on Nostr: Because of other reasons, I have decided to create a new website (from scratch). ...
Because of other reasons, I have decided to create a new website (from scratch). There are many things I want to improve. But since I'm doing this anyway, I have also decided to switch to a whitelist model to stop bots. Last week, I had over 350,000 invalid bot requests to my site, peaking at 60 bot requests per second at one point. I'm just so tired of this crap, so I'm building a system that is based on whitelisted access, and anything else is auto-blocked.
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2025-04-16 15:09:25Event JSON
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