I see plenty other non-bot weirdness with ProductHunt's site:
- if you search for "iPhone", click the 2nd tab "Launches" then click to sort by Launch date, the only launches listed since 2019 are: "iPhone 15 Pro Max" (June 5th, 2024) with only 8 upvotes(!), "iPhone 11" + "iPhone 11 Pro" (Sept 10th, 2019) with 208 + 446 upvotes. No launches shown for iPhone 16, 14, 13, 12. (There are some product pages, but not launch pages). Compare to 2,878 upvotes for iPhone X back on Sept 12th, 2017. So it seems the site's been declining for nearly a decade.