[Al_Abut]Took me months of getting the rust off to get set up the way I like it, worth it in the end for me personally. Might be worth looking at a few other options first, like eleventy or Hugo.
[aciccarello]I don't blame sites for being frustrated, but I noticed that the they don't mention caching at all in that article which seems like what they need. I don't see how Cloudflare is supposed to help
[snarfed]^ that Mastodon DDoS issue is so painful, esp that it's years old. if you have to say "don't share links on our network," that's clearly a bad sign for encouraging adoption or usage
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[tantek]DDoS is a jargon acronym so I was hoping to use something more broadly understandable / searchable / findable by people looking for an answer (but not knowing it, like yes, if you know to search for DDOS, then you already know part of the answer)
[tantek]aaronpk which site? the itsfoss site? "simple" answer: block all JS on that site by default, loads fine, zero lag, fast scroll, images load no problem etc.
[tantek]and that article deserves to be directly submitted like that so its article name & permalink show up top level in the newsletter, rather than one our brief notes about the article