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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de wrote:

We apologize for the long performance degradation today.
Finally, we identified all of the 'tricks' that AI crawlers found today. They no longer bypass the anubis proof of work challenges.

A novelty for us was that AI crawlers seem to not only crawl URLs that are actually presented to them by our frontend, but they converted the URLs into a format that bypassed our filter rules.

By the way, you can track the changes we have been doing via

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-Infrastructure/scripted-configuration/compare/51618~1..e4aac