Comment by mariusor 2 days ago
With all due respect, but almost all I see in this thread is people looking down their nose at a proven solution, and giving advice instead of doing the work. I can see how you are a _very important person_ with bills to pay and money to make, but at least have the humility of understanding that the solution we got is better than the solution that could be better if only there was someone else to think of it and build it.
Look, I don't care if you run Anubis. I'm not against "Anubis". I'm interested in the computer science of the current Anubis implementation. It's not great. It doesn't make sense. Those are descriptive observations, and you can't moralize them into being false; you need to present an actual argument.
This is not me being aggro because you're picking on my favourite project, I dislike Anubis for more or less the same complaints you see in this thread. I don't want JavaScript on otherwise static sites, I don't like the anime girl, etc. What I don't agree with is people like you pontificating about what an inferior solution it is, and *how* obvious that should be for everybody, but you fail to provide any better alternatives. So, I guess that what I'm trying to say, is to put up or shut up.
It's weird that you get offended by something which was not directed at you.
"The work" is providing those better alternatives to anubis, that everyone in this thread except for Xe seem to know all about.
The humility is about accepting the fact that the solution works for some people, the small site operators that get hammered by DDoSes and unethical LLM over crawling, despite not being perfect. And if that inconveniences you as a user of those sites - which I imagine is what you mean by "user backlash", the solution for you is to stop going there, not talk down at them for doing something about an issue that impacts them.
You can't moralize a flawed design into being a good one.