I recently got hit on my own forgejo instance with bots crawling my fork of chicken-core. I have my instance behind cloudflare (free), so I added a challenge for the expensive routes and it stopped them. Wouldn't something like that work for call-cc.org?
Best, Rolando Abarca On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM Mario Domenech Goulart via Chicken-users < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In the recent years, CHICKEN has been facing a reality where the number > of active maintainers is decreasing, and the load on the infrastructure > and the effort to maintain it is increasing, mostly due to the new > trends related to LLMs. > > As a reaction to that, we are simplifying our services to be able to > keep them running as responsibly as we can with the resources we have, > in a scenario where we have to take into account abuses from LLM > crawlers. > > So far the current services have been simplified and, with that, > limitations follow: > > * Gitweb, which provided an interface to browse the git repositories > hosted at call-cc.org, has been disabled and replaced with a much more > limited interface based on static HTML files: > https://code.call-cc.org/githtml/ . > > * The more featureful web interface to browse the SVN repository, > provided by Trac, has also been disabled. > https://code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/ is still available > (anonymous login with empty password), but provides a much more > simplified interface. > > * The history of pages in our wiki, previously available through its web > interface, has been disabled. Since the backend storage of the wiki > is SVN, history is still available if you check out the SVN > repository. Being SVN, partial checkouts are possible. > > * The bug tracker, Trac, has been replaced with tick > (https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/tick), a tool we have developed to > keep track of CHICKEN issues. As with web interface for git > repositories, tickets are now available in read-only format as static > HTML pages at Trac's previous location (https://bugs.call-cc.org/). > The basic URLs to view tickets have been preserved, including the > mapping to Trac ticket ids. The documentation on how to report issues > has been updated: https://wiki.call-cc.org/support > > * Not yet done, but we will shut down paste.call-cc.org. Although it is > convenient and is a practical CHICKEN application, it is not deemed > essential to our infrastructure and is currently unmaintained. If you > want to maintain and host it, feel free to reach out and we'll make > paste.call-cc.org resolve to your server. > > Apologies in case these changes cause any inconvenience to your > workflows. > > All the best. > Mario (on behalf of the CHICKEN team) > -- > https://parenteses.org/mario > >
