• @[email protected]
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    31 year ago

    (and now the problem is that even registered users can’t see that much of it)

    People actually already found a way around the rate limit. Opera GX even implemented a fix in their desktop browser.

    • @b3nsn0wA
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      21 year ago

      lmao, you know you fucked up when a browser pushes an update specifically to circumvent your rate limits

      but yeah, if opera can do it, i highly doubt that openai can’t easily do it either. the ai concerns are posturing (and probably a personal grudge, given that elon was a founding member of openai until he got kicked out), the real issue is somewhere between incompetence and attempted monetization.

        • @b3nsn0wA
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          11 year ago

          i’m actually kinda interested how that could work. a regular user using “near infinitely less” resources than a scraping engine sounds like some absolutely stupid design, either on reddit’s or the scraping engine’s side

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            When using the API you just request what you’re looking for. With scraping you load everything repeatedly.

            • @b3nsn0wA
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              01 year ago

              except most of the weight of the site is in easily cachable assets that don’t get reloaded at all. probably not even loaded to begin with, since even though new reddit is a single-page app, it does have seed data in the html content itself, which a well-written scraper (or one that automatically parses the site with chatgpt) can easily extract. constantly reloading styles and scripts would be a ridiculously stupid design on the scraper’s part, and on reddit’s if they necessitated it.

              the html page itself is slightly heavier than just the json data but compared to all the images and videos real clients load and the giant piles of tracking data being sent back every second, a scraper is def going to be lighter. plus the site does reload itself every time you enter a new subreddit, that doesn’t happen through the api for some reason.