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AI Bots again

Fred wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 4:59 pmAI Bots again

All from the macOS user-agent again?

I understand it is helpful to allow AI bots to build a knowledge base for Purebasic, but why not force them to register as active users? Limit 100 bots or so, and the site is still navigable for hoomans.

Yes, the site is slow today.

+1 nearly 15 seconds to access this thread from France.

Sadly, PhpBB doesn't seem to allow you to set a limit on the number of allowed guest users...

Fred wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 4:59 pmAI Bots again

At least vibe coding PureBasic will be more feasible.

Fred wrote: Wed May 07, 2025 4:59 pmAI Bots again

Perhaps your firewall supports a rule to allow bots to only have a single session at any time? This would slow down bots, but still grant them (limited) access.

For blocking them entirely using robots.txt, perhaps you might want to check out https://robotstxt.com/ai

Fast at 4:14 AM

Seemingly the crawlers are done...for now at least...

Every time I look at the forum, it is very very slow, since full 3 days, also now.

This reminds me of old AOL times with my 56k modem...

still very slow at 1843 user
it took about 3 minutes to get here and I have still to hit "Submit" and wait...

It seems to get worse, forum is pretty much unusable now

Yep, it was fine for a couple hours last night but almost constantly for the past 72 hours half of my requests time out...