3 days ago on the 12th I pushed a new version of the awful.systems infrastructure flake and our production ruggedized Lemmy fork to try and fix the problem where AI scrapers would come in and push over the instance, resulting in a bunch of 503s and general slowness. I’m happy to announce we’re now running with iocaine, which seems to have fixed things nicely – though as always, let me know if anything seems off and ping me on Mastodon if the instance goes down. in addition to iocaine, I’ve added a suite of live metrics available to instance admins and moderators. if I haven’t sent you credentials for this yet and you think you should have them, shoot me a message. I apologize that these changes took me so long to get working, but I’m very happy they seem to be effective. I’ve also got some notes on running iocaine in production I can share with any interested parties, and I’ll be reaching out to iocaine’s developer with some suggestions around making it a little bit easier to work with, since at this point it’s a crucial part of running an independent web site.

the treat

is still in the oven