May June Jul 2025 Review (Patreon)

Ruh roh; time really got away from me this time again. I've been fighting AI web scrapers and/or DDoS attacks, but there's been a bit of feature work too. In other news, I went viral on youtube that resulted in 250+ LoBlast orders and I also had a wedding celebration.

Most of the stuff that got done:

• botbr_points resource added to api

• lyceum anchor tag cleanup

• block unstarted major battles in api

• reenable login requirements for donloads

• 404 thumbnail on >2.5mb entry previews

• player gov update for mbv max at -3.0 instead of -6.0 (louder)

• login required to updated player gov values

• player analyzer layout updated

• admin controls for login requirements for different page types

  • mostly used to block high traffic bots

All in all, feels like we have a better handle on how to deal with a flood of bots. Trying to block IP ranges definitely started to fail. There are still a lot of blocked ranges which could be blocking normal people.

Right now I need to focus on getting Bit Periods working correctly.

Thanks everyone for your support!