by longhairfish on Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:03 pm
Hi everyone,
As you might have noticed in the past week we had some site slowness. This was (or still is) due to many people on the site mass downloading. Mostly on the mobile or beta site.
In order to make the site fair for everyone, especially the people who do not download entire galleries all day, we had to put in some restrictions on the way you browse or download.
For the moment the structure is like this. This is page views, not individual picture views.
100 requests per 1 min
200 requests per 5 min
1000 requests per 1 hour
So, you can open up 100 gallery pages per minute. This is fair and almost nobody could manually be clicking a mouse or a phone to simply browse the site.
For now, this is the way it will be. We are watching users actions and seeing what they are downloading automatically. Of course if the plan we have now does work, we will leave it as is. If mass downloading continues, we will make even further restrictions.
The idea is to make surfing the site easy and fast for everyone.