Saturday, February 12, 2005

Mirroring

Lately I've noticed a lot of people running scripts to mirror my site. I cannot stress this enough...

PLEASE DO THIS

Maybe that's not what you expected. I know a lot of people complain and say "Oh, it's hard on my system, etc". Screw that. Grab it all. I don't even have a robots.txt for this very reason. I want the data to be out there. Just try to not beat up the machine recklessly. Mirroring is one thing but hammering it is another.

If you ever feel bad about it just remember that I promised that I'd make the database open and a still haven't. That should make you really angry. :P

The serious reason of why I haven't done this is because I'm looking to do a redesign of the database. Something that'll easily support internationalization (I've been talking about it for a while), scanning project management, and several other neat tricks. Once that's done I'll open it all up so people can mess with it.