August 27 TCRF DDoS Attack Postmortem

It's a shame that so many niche websites have no other choice than moving to Cloudflare.

> "In the process of mitigating, migrating, and updating things, we’ve made a lot of upgrades and improvements to the wiki and infrastructure: Automatic blocking of many bots and other nuisances, including Tor exit nodes"

Is this supposed to be a good thing? What's the point of blocking Tor here?

This is why no one likes AI. It ruins wonderful passion project sites like this.

> I recently added a new feature to The Cutting Room Floor: If you visit the site with a “Claude-code” user agent… it adds you to a Claude user ban list. Then, if you try and visit the site later, without Claude — maybe because you wanted to investigate the “prompt injection” page it received — you’re greeted with a special error page telling you to get out

This guy sounds like he has spent way too much time online getting angry at imaginary enemies, and really needs to get outside and talk to some real people outside of his filter bubble.

I actually enjoy reading TCRF, so it’s unfortunate that the owner is apparently a terminally online insane person.