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   Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 16:06:40 JST Dan Luu

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   Since discourse employees are now dropping in to inform me that the Bing thing is fixed, with the implication that Bing was at fault because Bing fixed the issue.

   I know. The thing about the Bing issue is that, in response to Bing crawling at 0.5 QPS, leadership banned Bing and, in response to comments that this would cause problems, said things like "No, the nuclear option is what we want here."

   The justifications were that 0.5 QPS of crawler traffic was causing discourse to lose customers