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mk  ·  3157 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The global feed is fucked

I nuked them. With spambots/spamshops, we have the conundrum that even if they are unseen, they are creating invisible posts that must be stored, and must be avoided in searches, etc.

It's a pain in the ass. Basically their posts are now invisible and they get a new password.

Having our data saved in files rather than a proper database makes the pain of storing spam posts all the more acute. Thankfully rob05c is getting close to a complete migration to a SQL database. I think after we get that done, I am going to make some sort of functionality where they can nuke themselves.