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Public view by tag of public bookmarks now requires Log In to Pinboard or creation of a Bundle

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Liz

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Aug 24, 2024, 11:36:27 AM8/24/24
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Hi Maciej

It used to be possible to post a link to a particular tag and all the public bookmarks for that tag would be visible to anyone on the internet.  Now the only way to do that is to create a single-tag Bundle.

It is not a problem but I wondered if the documentation needed to be updated.

Best wishes,

Liz

Dan Dascalescu

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Sep 13, 2024, 11:56:23 PM9/13/24
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It's actually a problem when we want to share our collections on a topic or combination of tags/topics.

The site has been alternating between requiring login and not requiring login for this function and for viewing individual tags. It would be great to add a test suite that ensures both use cases don't require login.

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Liz

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Sep 15, 2024, 2:29:34 PM9/15/24
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I have always used Bundles when I have wanted to share a combination of tags but I didn't expect to have to create a single-tag Bundle to share just one topic. 

I did not realise that the single-tag public share function had been flip-flopping between open internet access and Logged-In Only.

It makes sense for access to a single-tag share to be restricted to Logged-In Users as an additional, intermediate "Privacy Feature" but if it is a planned feature then it would help to have it documented as such.

johnfromberkeley

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Nov 15, 2024, 12:33:51 PM11/15/24
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Wow, I didn’t know Google groups was still a thing, and serendipitously, I’ve been subscribed to this group, and this has been my top of mind issue.

So, to be clear, if I create a bundle, that can be publicly shared?

maciej

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Nov 15, 2024, 3:58:53 PM11/15/24
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What people are running into is an anti-crawling measure that I always hate having to turn on. 

The intent is for all public Pinboard pages to be visible without a login. However, user+tag pages in particular are somewhat expensive to generate on the fly, so a crawler that iterates through them can quickly bog down the site.

In the past, it was fairly easy to block or throttle this kind of crawling. But in recent months, I've seen a rise in distributed crawling from China+Singapore IP addresses, with no patterns that would make the traffic easy to block.  So I'm forced to either put pages behind a login, or have the site become unusably slow for everyone.

If I have to I'll block the entire PRC address range, though I'm looking for alternate solutions that are less drastic. But I just want people to know the reason for the back-and-forth behavior on public pages. 

Maciej

Andy Mabbett

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Nov 15, 2024, 5:40:18 PM11/15/24
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Could you use a CAPTCHA during those periods?

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Liz@Panton

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Nov 15, 2024, 9:10:26 PM11/15/24
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"if I create a bundle, that can be publicly shared?" - Yes.

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Liz@Panton

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Nov 15, 2024, 9:18:13 PM11/15/24
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Thank you for the explanation. What a bind! 

"If I have to I'll block the entire PRC address range" - what does PRC stand for?

Still the best Bookmarking Service though. 👍

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Andy Mabbett

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Nov 16, 2024, 10:30:11 AM11/16/24
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 at 02:17, Liz@Panton <l...@panton.me.uk> wrote:

> "If I have to I'll block the entire PRC address range" - what does PRC stand for?

Peoples' Republic of China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples'_Republic_of_China

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Eva Reffell

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Jan 17, 2025, 2:56:59 PMJan 17
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Hi, maciej -

Have you come to any conclusions about this issue? It's a substantial problem for sharing content on my org's website. 

Many thanks
Eva 

maciej

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Jan 17, 2025, 3:44:03 PMJan 17
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Last night I removed the login requirement and put public pages behind a captcha, as suggested in this thread.

This should allow non-users to see public content (after an extra click) while hopefully keeping the bots at bay. 

Please let me know if you run into any public pages that are still inaccessible to non-users. 

Maciej

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