GOOD NEWS! FrogFind is fully working again!

Unfortunately, it's significantly more expensive to run now, so I've put some rate limiting in - mainly aimed at blocking bots and automated requests.

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@simonzerafa thanks, that really means a lot! โค๏ธ https://www.patreon.com/ActionRetro is the best way
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Totally normal computing.

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One will see what one can do ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ‘

@ActionRetro For its intended purpose, you could limit the download speed to 56K :P
@ActionRetro You have to be special kind of asshole to bother projects like yours.
@ActionRetro Thanks for getting that resolved and will definitely be contributing to help keep it running!
@ActionRetro Consider #OpenSource'ing it so everyone can #SelfHost it and use it as an #Accessibility tool for their own site (similar to #Tor2Web but with an Allow-List...
GitHub - ActionRetro/FrogFind: Source for the FrogFind search engine for vintage computers

Source for the FrogFind search engine for vintage computers - GitHub - ActionRetro/FrogFind: Source for the FrogFind search engine for vintage computers

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@ActionRetro thx.

I think more people should run #FrogFind Servers on their own...

@ActionRetro ooh, sell it to Elon Musk for $44B โ€“ I bet heโ€™ll know how to limit the bots and trim the fat off infrastructure, and apparently has money to burn.
@ActionRetro If you'd like to at all, I could help out with hardening your nginx configuration to nuke asshats like what you dealt with, without affecting everyone else.
@ActionRetro What does it take to have it hosted? i have my virtualserver basically doing nothing here, just running my private mail.
@ActionRetro I would try and hook you up with some of my workโ€™s bot protection, but I think you target browsers we donโ€™t exactly support ๐Ÿ˜‚
@ActionRetro have you considered getting it sponsored by a tech nonprofit like EFF or the Internet Archive? That may sound a bit lofty but with the right partnership, it could be valuable.
@ernie @ActionRetro bots and spammers mean we can never have nice things, once they are even moderately known :(
@geerlingguy @ActionRetro it's too bad, because it solves a real problem.