ActionRetro,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar

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.

ernie,
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

@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.

geerlingguy,
@geerlingguy@mastodon.social avatar

@ernie @ActionRetro bots and spammers mean we can never have nice things, once they are even moderately known :(

ernie,
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

@geerlingguy @ActionRetro it's too bad, because it solves a real problem.

alt,

@ActionRetro What does it take to have it hosted? i have my virtualserver basically doing nothing here, just running my private mail.

MissAemilia,
@MissAemilia@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

@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,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar

@MissAemilia thank you for this.

europlus,

@ActionRetro ooh, sell it to Elon Musk for $44B – I bet he’ll know how to limit the bots and trim the fat off infrastructure, and apparently has money to burn.

kkarhan,

@ActionRetro Consider 'ing it so everyone can it and use it as an tool for their own site (similar to but with an Allow-List...

ActionRetro,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar
kkarhan,

@ActionRetro thx.

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

billgoats,
@billgoats@bitbang.social avatar

@ActionRetro Magic! Thank you :D

kroc,

@ActionRetro For its intended purpose, you could limit the download speed to 56K :P

simonzerafa,

@ActionRetro

If one was moved to help in some way, how might one contribute to best effect? 🙂🤷‍♂️

ActionRetro,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar

@simonzerafa thanks, that really means a lot! ❤️ https://www.patreon.com/ActionRetro is the best way

simonzerafa,

@ActionRetro

One will see what one can do 🙂👍

PurpCat,
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@ActionRetro source code?

ActionRetro,
@ActionRetro@bitbang.social avatar

@PurpCat I'm going to update the github soon: https://github.com/ActionRetro/FrogFind

New version does use a paid API though, so if you're using the old version and it's working, I'd advise sticking with that

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