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capjamesg !archive https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-08-12-hwc-edinburgh
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cali-iwc Created https://indieweb.org/events/2025-08-12-hwc-edinburgh. Please review the page to ensure the document is correctly formatted and remove any unnecessary text.
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cali.moe created /events/2025-08-12-hwc-edinburgh (+3572) "Created event page using IndieWeb events / Etherpad archiver" (view diff)
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jamesg.blog edited /events/2025-08-12-hwc-edinburgh (-30) "clean up formatting" (view diff)
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[morganm] [Jo] That poster is awesome
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[morganm] from way bacl
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[morganm] back*. in the channel
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[Jo] Thank you!
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aaronpk this is getting out of control https://media.aaronpk.com/2025/08/15094132-5379.png
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gRegor oof
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aaronpk 4gb in an hour seems like a lot
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capjamesg aaronpk we saw a massive spike at work today.
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capjamesg All under browser user agents I think.
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capjamesg It looked like it persisted for a few hours then went down.
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capjamesg I haven’t seen any of these on my server but I never check the logs. I feel like I need a proper alerting system now.
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[tantek]2 That's nuts
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capjamesg Codeberg has had issues today: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033782514845941
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capjamesg [edit] Codeberg has had issues today: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033782514845941
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doesnm damn crawlers
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aaronpk it isn't slowing down https://media.aaronpk.com/2025/08/15130513-1892.png
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aaronpk i'm seriously considering an nginx rule to block logged-out requests to `/wiki/index.php`
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aaronpk a lot of this traffic is clearly crawlers crawling the "view history" and "diff" URLs, all which are a huge waste for everyone
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[artlung] Sounds like a reasonable response. Are there any tools that depend on inspecting those pages logged out? If not worth a try. I'd be real curious to see if you see a measurable drop in load.
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[tantek]2 I believe I have seen such blocks on other MediaWikis
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aaronpk i think as long as the main pages are visible and login works, that's all i care about for logged-out visitors
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[tantek]2 agreed, that's what's cited
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[tantek]2 I checked a few other Mediawikis in private browsing mode and was able to view history when logged out so I'm guessing they're either using other solutions or haven't been hit yet
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[tantek]2 I'm guessing this is also causing newsletter generation to silently fail today?
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aaronpk oh weird, i wonder what that's about
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aaronpk hmm, it's working everywhere except the home page
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aaronpk undoing that for now
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aaronpk not sure about the newsletter tho
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aaronpk ooh, it's getting an error on one of the events
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aaronpk i bet cloudflare is blocking it 😂
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[tantek]2 sigh
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Loqi Generated a new draft of the newsletter! https://indieweb.org/this-week/2025-08-15.html
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aaronpk maybe not
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aaronpk it's always erroring on the same düsseldorf event
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aaronpk i made it skip errors
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[tantek]2 huh
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aaronpk it's getting an http 400 from the events site for taht event
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aaronpk I know other events have had ü in the URL and I don't think that's caused the newsletter to break before
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aaronpk yeah here's one that worked https://indieweb.org/this-week/2025-05-23.html
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tantek.com edited /Blaugust (+26) "move discord join link to Community, see also challenge" (view diff)
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Loqi Generated the final version of the newsletter! This will be sent out at 3pm Pacific time. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2025-08-15.html
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tantek.com edited /challenge (+180) "/* Other Examples */ repair SeptemBest 2024 link with IA" (view diff)
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[tantek]2 missed a chance to create a new page for the week
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capjamesg aaronpk I see a debug bar on the wiki:
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capjamesg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/866577502586273792/1406041398188179578/Screenshot_2025-08-15_at_23.26.15.png?ex=68a10598&is=689fb418&hm=913258179a0c2116b4da7e9ada4ed5258694cfd0453146f7f2108aa683103a66&
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tantek.com created /September (+292) "stub a September page with IndieWeb relevance, SA" (view diff)
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aaronpk You must be a sysop
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[tantek]2 there's a new page for next week
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aaronpk It said the debug only appears for admins
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capjamesg I didn't realise I was.
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[tantek]2 got the email newsletter++
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[tantek]2 I checked a few other Mediawikis in private browsing mode and they seemed to all allow not logged in access to history. Will see if I can remember where I saw history blocked for non logged in users