[fidotron]

There's more to this. If you see traffic that comes from reddit it inexplicably dropped off a lot (like over 30%) after the US election, even in totally unrelated areas.

The preferences of HN in recent months have also changed in some hard to pinpoint way, but I suspect it is now gamed to a degree that is hard to fight due to all the tools for writing AI bots.

[ForOldHack]

Thus ends the professional enshitfication of redwhatit, and only the armatures are left. Best of luck monetizing that API.

[uoaei]

Don't you see? The people paying for the API are running bots...