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[chris]

@paperdigits

Page views. X axis is the date

X I recognized immediately . Do the known crawlers also cause some traffic, ore are they blocked right away? It would be interesting to see such a diagram but with traffic (in GBytes or whatever the correct order of magnitude would be) on the y axis …

And “other traffic”, is this downloads of raw files and things like that?

[bastibe (Bastian Bechtold)]

@Tamas_Papp

That said, the most toxic example in the article linked above is submitting LLM-generated nonsense bug reports to FOSS projects with bounties, expecting that one of them will get through. This just ties up crucial developer time, and makes it difficult to get actual bug reports through.

I have seen this sort of thing happen by human hands to my open source projects as well. I’ve had people from big companies show up and demand my attention by pure entitlement. And I’ve had garbage pile up in my queue because of some bogus bounty that rewarded generic github interactions.

Thankfully I have learned in calmer times that “nope” is a perfectly valid way of handling these sorts of cases.

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@chris

Do the known crawlers also cause some traffic

Yes, its a page view, the traffic is the size of the page. Its also the cost from our CDN or s3 egress.

@chris

ore are they blocked right away

We aren’t blocking anything. And blocking doesn’t really work.

@chris

And “other traffic”, is this downloads of raw files and things like that?

I assume stuff without a user agent string, but I not sure.