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The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

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Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs, especially for sentences like that one which absolutely do not need it. The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate your sensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

I see, thx for the article too!

I think I'll actually post the article here, quite useful

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vast majority of websites today can and should be static, which makes even the aggressive llm scrapping non-issue.

One of the things that a lot of LLM scrapers are fetching are git repositories. They could just use git clone to fetch everything at once. But instead, they fetch them commit by commit. That's about as static as you can get, and it is absolutely NOT a non-issue.

No... Basically all git servers have to generate the file contents, diffs etc. on-demand because they don't store static pages for every single possible combination of view parameters. Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental. You could pre-render everything statically, but that could take up gigabytes or more for any repo of non-trivial size.

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

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> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.

Yet again [0] quality standards seem to have slipped on the cloudflare blog. I'm not able to point at a cause, but it's not painting a pretty picture.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#25
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you base the AI use on the emdash or is this an a common AI phrase (or both)?

"Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs, especially for sentences like that one which absolutely do not need it. The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate your sensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

Yeah it’s basically the prose equivalent of getting too much radio play - hilarious how the breakthrough of LLM content has ‘ruined’ “it’s not X—it’s Y” for so many of us now

Maybe, like overplayed pop songs, in 20 years or so we’ll come around to viewing the phrase fondly.

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#26

Am I reading it right, the widget is seen 5B times per day, and they recruited 8 people for testing to make sure their “redesign would work for everyone”…?

With a bit of A/B testing they could’ve recruited billions of people sounds like…

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

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post #12

> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.

Did you base the AI use on the emdash or is this an a common AI phrase (or both)?

It's also just an utterly meaningless statement. Filler words with no value whatsoever.

Re: The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages

#29

> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.

Their design approach wasn’t particularly unusual, so I’m not sure what that sentence means.

I do miss the days when technical reports were clear and concise. This one has some interesting information, but it’s buried under a mountain of empty AI-written bloat.

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