Viewing the Patch tracker requires login now?

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Because if so then people who like to track Blender’s development and see all the tools being developed in patch form can’t view them anymore. I found this out because it says cookies must be enabled and it had a login screen.

Personally, if this is true, in the respect of seeing the progress of some exciting new stuff, this was a stupid move, as then some features that were coded can never be seen by those who are not registered. I don’t like when I have to register just to read stuff, now viewing the patch tracker may be like the DAZ forums, no register, can’t read anything.

I know it may be to prevent overloading the server, but is this really neccesary?

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No… it’s really not.

EDIT:: YAY POST #800!!!

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This change was made last night, as the projects site was simply being overloaded by bots going through and downloading all of the reports causing the site to be slow and go down often.

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Is there a bot blocker you can install that would replace the login requirement? Maybe try to find such a thing if it exists?

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cyborg dragon just make a login and anyone else that cares so much about it can make one too, it’s not really that hard.

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there could be a captcha code-like thing, for people who don’t want to sign in?

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Is there a bot blocker you can install that would replace the login requirement? Maybe try to find such a thing if it exists?
I think in this case the priority is to make the site work well for the actual developers with the cleanest and simplest solution. In the end it’s the developers who are using the patch tracker and their needs should be above anyone else’s in this regard. And you aren’t really restricted to view them, simply login :slight_smile: