Wondered why our latest podcast episode didn’t show up on https://workingdraft.de this morning. In our headless WP we preschedule releases and @11ty builds the front facing site daily. Turns out an AI bot broke the build: our log-parsing stats step choked on its UA string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)
"if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble" 🖕
@Schepp By accident I yesterday discovered that the website I host for the local hiking club my parents are in consumed a whopping 170GB traffic in February, 230GB in January, 190 in Dec, you get it... Over the past 12 months this accumulated to 1.2TB of traffic, picking up steam since July.
Just now looking into some of the logs I see lots of bytedance, lots of facebook crawler, and such...
It's a tiny wordpress site, where the club shares some pictures of recent hikes and info on the next...
Christian "Schepp" Schaefer
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