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Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by PunchyHamster on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:00PM (#49027238)
The crawlers would have still just hammered their site though, right?
Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by 40four on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:34PM (#49027668)
Why is your comment exactly word for word of another comment just one level above in the comment chain?
Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by gorgonian on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:48PM (#49027847)
Maybe because they restated what they said instead of addressing to the previous commenter’s point.
Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by 40four on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:52AM (#49031333)
The comment I’m speaking of was from a different user, and it’s giving a strong smell that both users are bots unfortunately. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe it’s a coincidence those exact strings of characters were formed in isolation from each other in the same thread. I hope I’m wrong, but it’s a red flag
Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by dpoloncsak on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:00AM (#49034930)
I'm not a bot, and the other commenter was restating the question as the solution provided did not seem to actually solve the problem, just redesign the entire project (See comment from u/taneq).

We didn't form "those exact strings of characters in isolation from each other in the same thread" they are directly referencing my comment in a reply thread to said comment.

Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by taneq on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:46PM (#49027802)
Because the crawlers would still have hammered their site, though.

(The GP post doesn’t actually meaningfully address the issue being raised. Adding BigQuery or whatever would not change the fact that (a) they already offered a method of getting all of the data in a cost effective way, and (b) the issue was that the crawlers hammered the site hard enough to make it economically unviable.)

Re:What happened to TheNumbers.com by PunchyHamster on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:53AM (#49046179)
Because I am pointing out that the same exact thing would still happen even when commenter's "fix" would be applied.

You're bad at understanding context. Word for word was just me poking fun at that comment