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Re:Dav2d by account42 on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @08:52AM (#48021828)
This is also irrelevant to the original comment which is complaining about bot checks for looking at the root of the repositiory - which is probably the highest requested resource and should be 100% served from cache with a cost much less than running the bot checks.

It's simply bad, inefficient software and we shouldn't keep making excuses for it.

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Re:Dav2d by nijave on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @11:44AM (#48024092)
Agree. Did some basic searching and looks like Gitlab is particularly bad. It ships with built in rate-limiting but the backend marks all pages as uncacheable on top of them being somewhat dynamically generated (I guess it caches "page fragments").

The only issues I found amounted to "here's how to use Anubis to block everything"

There's also some new but poorly supported standards around agents setting `Accept: text/markdown` and https://github.com/cloudflare/web-bot-auth

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