I just wanted to make sure you were aware - there seem to be long load times especially when loading the community pages (posts load fairly quickly).

  • plantteacher@mander.xyz
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    4 days ago

    So, the server that hosts the front-end via Tor will see the exit node connecting to it

    The onion eliminates the use of exit nodes. But I know what you mean.

    I appreciate the explanation. It sounds like replicating the backend and DB on the Tor node would help. Not sure how complex it would be to have the DBs synchronise during idle moments.

    Perhaps a bit radical, but I wonder if it would be interesting to do a nightly DB export to JSON or CSV files that are reachable from the onion front end. Scrapers would prefer that over scraping, and it would be less intrusive on the website. Though I don’t know how tricky it would be to exclude non-public data from the dataset.