• troybot
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    271 year ago

    Correct. Now the bots will be constantly scraping the pages of every post which will be a much bigger burden on their servers.

    • Skray
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      201 year ago

      It’s funny, years ago websites switched to openly available APIs specifically to lessen server burden because of bots. Now they’re swapping away from APIs because of bots, but those bots are just gonna go back to scraping.

    • Yewb
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      91 year ago

      Exactly spez forgot why they needed an api