 So apparently dang and the HN crowd are so upset I wrote some messages for HN visitors to our website, that they now banned my home IP address 🙃 Yes, seriously. I get 403s from any device on my home connection, and yet it works fine on 4G. Just when you thought they couldn't get pettier. And no, I haven't been doing any scraping/scripting/anything sus. 25 comments
   @marcan I had this randomly happen to me at one point on my home connection. Worked again a day later without changing anything, and my account itself was never banned 🤷♂️ and I'm a nobody @Aissen I've already established that dang ignores my emails and I have no interest in begging for access. This is petty on the level of that time when spender/grsecurity banned my IP because I tweeted a DoS vuln in their code that they themselves classified as a class of vuln they don't care about.  @mikemol My IPv6 is pseudo-static and my IPv4 is CGNAT (DS-Lite), but also effectively assigned a pseudo-static (non unique) outbound IP for each customer. They could easily catch my IP from account logs (my account is locked out but still logged in on my main browser, so they get pings from that every time I forget to open HN in an incognito window). So not only did they ban me, they banned a chunk of users from my ISP along the way 🤦♂️  Reminder that this is the same HN that previously added    @marcan why did you start redirecting away traffic from HN in first place? Ive read that the site has a lot of issues but probably redirecting away traffic is not the way  @marcan having to deal with them seems like it's a really huge pain :blobcatsweats:
 @marcan I also ran into something like this over the weekend, though tbf I *was* doing research to dig up dirt on HN |
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@marcan now that's pretty!