I think... I'm done. I'm not going to fix it this time. Open source might actually be dead.
F*uckin' AI crawlers took down the site for Chipmunk Physics again because the archived forums are just too juicy I guess. It's on a shared host, so AFAIK there's nothing I can do to mitigate it further. It had already been in read-only mode with all of the pages except the threads disabled. (AI crawlers *loved* scraping all the user profiles even more than the threads for some reason...)
slembcke
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2026-05-20 16:27:38 UTC
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