Just out of curiosity, does the page load for anyone? I'm just wondering, based on the title, if this person's bot defence systems have identified me as a bot since the page fails to load for me....
Just out of curiosity, does the page load for anyone? I'm just wondering, based on the title, if this person's bot defence systems have identified me as a bot since the page fails to load for me.
I totally get it if that's the case, though. I gave up last week and moved my websites out of a self hosted server and into a managed webhosting server. I just don't have the time or the interest to keep fighting bot traffic.
Loads for me. The last paragraph is which makes it sounds like you probably are just unluckily in one of the ranges they've blocked.
Loads for me.
The last paragraph is
2025-03-22. The drawback of using the firewall to ban broad swaths of the Internet is that these networks host bots (bad) but also networked services that I’m interested in (good). Yesterday I found that @algernon had gone silent, had been silent for quite a while, and yet I kept seeing replies to them by others. Something was off. We got into contact via an alt account and indeed, I had blocked the IPv4 range his server was on.
So by my count I already had to unblock three networks on my list. It’s not a great solution, to be honest. And it doesn’t expire, either. The list still contains 47021 IP ranges.
which makes it sounds like you probably are just unluckily in one of the ranges they've blocked.
Just out of curiosity, does the page load for anyone? I'm just wondering, based on the title, if this person's bot defence systems have identified me as a bot since the page fails to load for me.
I totally get it if that's the case, though. I gave up last week and moved my websites out of a self hosted server and into a managed webhosting server. I just don't have the time or the interest to keep fighting bot traffic.
Loads for me.
The last paragraph is
which makes it sounds like you probably are just unluckily in one of the ranges they've blocked.
Thanks! That indeed seems to be the case. I now see that I can access the website through a VPN.
It loaded for me for what that's worth
It loads for me but it does take a suspiciously long time to load.