Re:Website Is for Humans
by account42 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:14AM
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> They're doing exactly what I said - adding PoW (anubis - as you point out - being one solution) to gate access.
Which is a shit solution where everyone suffers.
> Another great solution? Just ask users to login (no js needed). I'll stand pretty firmly behind "If you aren't willing to make an account - you don't actually care about the site".
No I won't create an account to check if a search result has what I'm looking for. Not will I sign up to a forum before I know what the culture is like. We already had this shit with communities moving to discord, we don't need fuck up the remaining web as well.
Which is a shit solution where everyone suffers.
> Another great solution? Just ask users to login (no js needed). I'll stand pretty firmly behind "If you aren't willing to make an account - you don't actually care about the site".
No I won't create an account to check if a search result has what I'm looking for. Not will I sign up to a forum before I know what the culture is like. We already had this shit with communities moving to discord, we don't need fuck up the remaining web as well.