I get that we need something to combat scraping, especially when the servers start getting hammered, but would it be possible to change it so that anyone can at least see the post that was linked before being forced to log in? Then, if the protections are up, any attempts to browse to anywhere else would greet them with a login screen.
Restrictions were put into place when feddit.online started receiving 700K scraping requests/day, which left nothing except Gateway Timeouts for people using the server. But this restriction has since been removed. AFIK shared links referencing feddit.online should work in XMPP.
It should work now, but I’ve personally had this same issue happen at other times to me when attempting to share PieFed links for other communities on PieFed.Social.
It may be rare, but it happens often enough that I’m considering including a backup Mastodon/Lemmy link if I ever link to a PieFed post on some other medium. Basically just to ensure that anyone clicking the link at a later date will at least have a backup link to click on in the case that scraping requests have a sudden spike.
I get that we need something to combat scraping, especially when the servers start getting hammered, but would it be possible to change it so that anyone can at least see the post that was linked before being forced to log in? Then, if the protections are up, any attempts to browse to anywhere else would greet them with a login screen.
Restrictions were put into place when feddit.online started receiving 700K scraping requests/day, which left nothing except Gateway Timeouts for people using the server. But this restriction has since been removed. AFIK shared links referencing feddit.online should work in XMPP.
It should work now, but I’ve personally had this same issue happen at other times to me when attempting to share PieFed links for other communities on PieFed.Social.
It may be rare, but it happens often enough that I’m considering including a backup Mastodon/Lemmy link if I ever link to a PieFed post on some other medium. Basically just to ensure that anyone clicking the link at a later date will at least have a backup link to click on in the case that scraping requests have a sudden spike.