Hello, Trac was again unusable today because of massive amounts of dynamic requests from AI crawlers to the /query and /timeline endpoints (both of which are disallowed by robots.txt, btw).
Most of those masquerade as Chrome browser between versions 133 and 138, so I’ve now adjusted our filter rules to deny requests from Chrome < 140. The current version is Chrome 144, and Chrome typically auto-updates. If this affects you, consider updating to a current version of Chrome or Firefox, or use a user agent faker plugin. If you’re wondering what this looks like on the web server end of things, see https://chaos.social/@neverpanic/116256049861751435. -- Clemens
