Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
by anigbrowl on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:36PM
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but then you've shut down account creation for 24 hours.
But so what? The impact of that would be negligible, almost certainly less than that of having site performance go through the floor/become temporarily unreadable. It's not like a B2C product launch, and the target audience of HN is more or less optimally positioned to understand why one might deliberately interrupt service.
But so what? The impact of that would be negligible, almost certainly less than that of having site performance go through the floor/become temporarily unreadable. It's not like a B2C product launch, and the target audience of HN is more or less optimally positioned to understand why one might deliberately interrupt service.