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This is why no one likes AI. It ruins wonderful passion project sites like this.
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.
It's a pretty funny solution to slop bots, and it's clearly effective enough to upset the exact type of loser it's designed to reject.
The insane part is launching a DDoS attack because some guy online insulted your favorite toy.
I’d argue both sides are acting insane; there are no good guys in this story, only people who got way too worked up about software choices and started lashing out in inappropriate ways.
Hi, TCRF operator here! (*she)
This story has been escalating for over a year at this point. Originally, identified bots were given a generic "access denied" message. Then a special generic "LLM poison"-type page (some joke misinformation). Once I noticed that Claude-Code bots, specifically, were evading those blocks -- making one request, then changing their user-agent and trying again -- I started adding the persistent ban for bot misbehavior.
That you didn't know any of this until now suggests, I think, that there isn't really much of a problem. After all, this only affects agents reporting as Claude-Code.
The primary goal my side of this has been to interrupt and annoy LLM/AI users, and to that it has been working incredibly well.
My previous blog post, written before this DDoS attack, went into some of the challenges of being an independent website that avoided using third-party services (outside of Linode, our host). Cloudflare was always my "last resort" — I actually signed up for an account there a bit over a year ago, during an earlier attack — and it finally became time to use that last resort.
As for "terminally online", I guess you could say guilty as charged. I've been running communities for over 20 years and TCRF specifically for nearly 17, longer than a lot of our users have been alive. It certainly gets results.
It's a shame that so many niche websites have no other choice than moving to Cloudflare.
Is this supposed to be a good thing? What's the point of blocking Tor here?
Tor is one of those things that is nice in theory but, in my experience, tends to consist of about 20% legitimate users, 30% garbage traffic, and (most importantly) 50% specific, persistent, ban-dodging personas non grata.
There are only so many days one wants to wake up and click "delete user" 20 times for the latest batch of slur-filled trash from tor-exit-48012480.r0ck3t.ballz.