What's going on with #StackExchange lately? For the first time in my life I've received a 'your IP has been blocked' warning when trying to look something up on AskUbuntu. I'm just on a home network, nothing fishy, not using a VPN.
Don't push the last 1% of people who are trying NOT to use LLMs away from your service. 😓
#programming #ubuntu #StackOverflow #development #WebDev #PHP
Woah, I got a reply to my email! (I have never received a reply to an email sent to any SAAS/social platform's tech support ever.)
Hello,
Thanks for reaching out. Our network team is aware of legitimate users getting blocked from the site and are working both internally and with our external vendors to mitigate the issue. Thanks for your patience while the team works to get this resolved.
Thanks,
Stack Exchange Community Support Team
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Well that's nice to hear. I hope they figure it out!😁
Ah.. my access has been restored, with a CloudFlare sniff test first. Whew.
@syntaxseed you're the second person I hear from who's had this problem today!
@alien
@syntaxseed people actually use stack* sites unironically? they were one of the first sellouts to giving llm's access, maybe even before reddit did. seems they struggle with the basics now.
@bobmagicii Everyone's shooting their own feet these days.
@syntaxseed Do you have JavaScript disabled while visiting those sites? I've gotten the "you look like you're a LLM scraper" on a few websites recently because of that.
@Ferroxo Nope.
@syntaxseed
I'm getting this from my work VPN too.
@syntaxseed they told me they blocked many users as a mistake and are working on solving it, when I wrote about it.