David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.
Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.
Mark T. Tomczak@david_chisnall I like this one specifically because the Cloudflare gate is there to address the problem of "Too many visitors."
Dan Herbert@mark @david_chisnall I don't think that's actually the case, at least not entirely. The main issue is that the Internet is currently being inundated with LLM content crawlers to the point that it overwhelms websites or scrapes content some sites don't want sucked into AI training data. It has caused a massive number of sites to serve those bot-detection pages to everyone. So it's not quite an issue of too many visitors but actually "too many non-human visitors"
