It’s really, really, really bad reportage. 90% of what they post is just rewording emails from mailing lists with nothing added at all. They’re clearly just regurgitating words they don’t understand.
They focus a lot on drama and it’s like a twelve year old decided to write about all the most superficial drama without any technical understanding of what they’re writing about.
Their “benchmarks” have been heavily criticised too and it’s clear they basically have no idea what they’re doing and the numbers aren’t to be trusted.
Their English prose is terrible. “For this …” wut?
All in all, just a sorry excuse for a website. If it were a newspaper, the appropriate term for it would be a “rag”.
That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.
Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.
Ah, and why isn’t it reasonable to assume that the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months, is also hitting GNOME? Why do you think they are exempt, when even big commercial platforms are struggling with the amount of traffic generated by AI scrapers?
The GNOME Foundation has been going downhill for a while, they keep having to cut spending, and cut, and cut. The latest is:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect
(Forgive the Phoronix link.)
I’m out of the loop. What’s the issue with phoronix?
It’s really, really, really bad reportage. 90% of what they post is just rewording emails from mailing lists with nothing added at all. They’re clearly just regurgitating words they don’t understand.
They focus a lot on drama and it’s like a twelve year old decided to write about all the most superficial drama without any technical understanding of what they’re writing about.
Their “benchmarks” have been heavily criticised too and it’s clear they basically have no idea what they’re doing and the numbers aren’t to be trusted.
Their English prose is terrible. “For this …” wut?
All in all, just a sorry excuse for a website. If it were a newspaper, the appropriate term for it would be a “rag”.
Thanks for your insights!
I imagine AI scrapers have a lot to do with the massively increased hosting costs. I’m assuming Anubis et al didnt fix all their bot traffic issues
Eh? What increased hosting costs?
Bots aggressively scrapping everything they can.
That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.
Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.
I disagree. There’s no need to make assumptions. And even if there were, this does not seem like a sensible assumption to make.
Ah, and why isn’t it reasonable to assume that the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months, is also hitting GNOME? Why do you think they are exempt, when even big commercial platforms are struggling with the amount of traffic generated by AI scrapers?
Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.
I know of no such increase.