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#11

What is available to share crawls? There would be a lot of trust required to use the data for anything but things like Common Crawl save a lot of time. Does Wiby support starting with that?

A group of people would have to band together to share the same table (windex) with each other. Personally I am interested in seeing people try to cultivate their own niche indexes instead of working towards a common one.

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#12
Wiby is amazing and one of my favorite ways to discover the more unique side of the internet. I love to kill time by clicking "Surprise me" and half the RSS feeds I subscribe to are from this!

Thank you so much for making Wiby! I have truly enjoyed what its brought!!

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#13

Wiby is amazing and one of my favorite ways to discover the more unique side of the internet. I love to kill time by clicking "Surprise me" and half the RSS feeds I subscribe to are from this! Thank you so much for making Wiby! I have truly enjoyed what its brought!!

Thank you! Makes me happy to see people enjoying it.

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Wow! Thank you so much for this, I will for sure try and play around with this. Is it possible to run the Crawler behind like socks5 proxy or such?

You can certainly change the crawler's database connection from "localhost" to an IP address on a different machine, but I am unsure how that works with that type of proxy (I had to look up what a socks5 is). Sounds like it can work though.

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#15

This is awesome - thanks for sharing. I just so happen to have a domain left lying around for the Searx instance I never spun up, so I might end up using it for a weekend project with this. Love Wiby, been playing with it awhile now. I especially enjoy the "surprise me" button from time to time.

Thank you, I do hope you get around to building a wiby engine!

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the guide linked in the Readme is comprehensive and a good read - also gives instructions on who to scale and distribute load. If the author can answer: how big did the fulltext table became for x entries on wiby.me - and what is a common response time on N amount of searches per minute for this dataset? Would you offer a /traffic or /stats page within about/ ? duckduckgo shows traffic, not index stats though. I don'…

>how big did the fulltext table became for x entries on wiby.me I want Wiby to be comprised mainly of human submitted pages, so for 99% of the index, only the pages submitted by users are indexed and no further crawling was done. However I recognized that not having the capability to crawl through links would not make it useful for others, so I added in the crawling capability to my liking and tested it accordingly.…

>Wiby is being barraged by a nasty spam botnet with thousands of constantly changing IPs.

Short of having a private beta like kagi, how else could those bot nets be excluded? How difficult is it to create a white list of uninfected IPs?

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#20

Wiby is amazing and one of my favorite ways to discover the more unique side of the internet. I love to kill time by clicking "Surprise me" and half the RSS feeds I subscribe to are from this! Thank you so much for making Wiby! I have truly enjoyed what its brought!!

Only the first search brought up something very, very interesting for me [0] (bonus for looks, of course). I love and miss the old internets. Happy to know there is Wiby! (I use Millionshort and Marginalia.)

[0] https://sadgrl.online/blog/entries/selfinterview.html

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