For some time the FreeCAD Forum and the FreeCAD Wiki have had performance issues resulting in some frustration as they have been periodically hard to access. The root cause of this stemming from automated AI Scrapers. A while back we asked if anyone had any suggestions for mitigiating these issues and we thank those who reached out with ideas.
A little over 24 hours ago Kurt deployed Anubis, a wonderful opensource tool that promises to “Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers”. So far we are seeing excellent results which should result in more stability in access to those precious forum and wiki resources.
7 responses to “Forum and Wiki Performance; Anubis Deployed”
Excellent, it is great that people were able to help!
Good work, hopefully this will keep out the sinners for good.
Anubis also working a shift at kernel.org…
It’s fabulous to see it popping up in lots of places. Superb.
je n’ai plus accé à rien, j’ai les boules. je ne sais pas quoi faire.
Message:
Oh noes!
Sad Anubis
invalid response.
Go home
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So sorry to read this, I’ve passed this along for someone to look at.
Thank you 🙂 I was about to drop FreeCAD but now that I can use the docs again I am happy
I applaude the quest to reduce server load by AI scrapers.
However, I can not access the wiki.
Firefox shows an error message:
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Failed to calculate challenge: SecurityError: WorkerGlobalScope.importScripts: Failed to load worker script at “blob:https://wiki.freecad.org/2a1e0bb3-a2af-4337-b44d-99ec9a264543″
Why am I seeing this?
Protected by Anubis from Techaro. Made with ❤️ in 🇨🇦.
Mascot design by CELPHASE.
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Anubis is not an improvement for me…