When I see people going "the archive is slow, wah" they just don't realize there's this tsunami of bad actors, either spammers, DDOSers testing their equipment, and fraudsters that want to just grind the whole thing into the ground to make a potential quick buck. I'm flghting them and others are too. But the result is I'll spend a full day and have little to show for it.
There's a realistic situation where this problem is somewhat un-winnable, but in the face of it, winning still needs to be attempted. We have to try.
But when people complain, I always feel they forget the miracle that the place is even up.
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