Re: Simplifications applied to the CHICKEN infrastructure
Mario Domenech Goulart via Chicken-users <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:37:45 -0700 Rolando Abarca <[email protected]> wrote: > Just as an FYI: Cloudflare challenges don't require you to add any js > on your website. It's a layer that's built on their side. That's not the problem. The problem is annoying users with those JavaScript-based challenges. > It's sad to see that the decision is to downgrade the quality of the > offered services because of this. Can you elaborate on what you consider a downgrade of quality? To me that would be requiring users to have JavaScript enabled on their browsers and being tracked by foreign companies to be able to access our resources. > What's the biggest problem here? Is it that you want to prevent > crawlers accessing your content or reduce infra costs? The biggest problem is protecting our services from crawlers which exhaust resources of the server when they hit it. > I don't think crawlers are going to stop, they will probably become > worse (e.g. see the new efforts from cloudflare to design new crawling > agents that run at scale). We don't want to depend on Cloudfare to be able to provide our services. > Closing your eyes now will give you some immediate breathing room but > I think it will just end up isolating you and making this community > even more difficult to access. We are not closing our eyes. We are just providing what we can in the current scenario. All the best. Mario -- https://parenteses.org/mario