Good ol’ X’ie Brown explains why he blocked the Wayback Machine:
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This guy is seriously giving that as an excuse? Oh boy
So Wayback Machine sends out a burst of requests and then what? Does the site go down for hours? Clearly not.
Even a 'huge burst' should not be noticeable, unless you're glued to the nginx log 24/7 (guess he is). The logged-out view of every page should be fucking cached. Even if you get hit by the Wayback Machine with all of it's might, that shit should not even fucking touch the database. Don't want the bots to scrape the edit history or whatever? Disallow them from accessing just those pages with robots.txt. Don't want 'clowns' putting strain on your infrastructure? Publish a publicly available torrent with an export of the whole thing. People want to have a backup in case the next step in epically owning the stalkers is to delete the whole site. Those fucking assholes who want to destroy your life's work by... having a backup of it?? huh
All the issues he brings up are not a fucking factor in 2025. Servers aren't 1GHz with 256MB memory anymore. I'd wager that for the patreon money he could easily get a server that could keep the current version of the wiki completely in memory and a separate CDN for the pictures. He could work with the evil outsiders and make getting a backup easy. It's possible to not respect the people running the wiki but still see the value in their work and cherish that. If you hate them so much and they hate you too, why require them to ask you for the archive in the first place?
Oh that's right. You want them to beg, you want to be in control. You fucking love the attention, that's why not a single request, nary a referer header escapes your gaze. You're a pathetic fucking 40 year old greasy XCryptkeeper looking ass and the only thing you have power over is a niche autism daycare, where you're the king of the spergs. You don't care about preserving anything, stop pretending. All this talk about technical issues and the DDoS attack just shows how little you actually care and how stupid you think your audience is.
And opposing cloudflare on ideological grounds ('disagreeable politics') in your case is hilarious. Guess there's no pleasing the trannies no matter what you do