Ryan Barrett

Ruh roh. Sounds like YouTube may have blocked our IP. Lots of details in https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128 , but I don't see an easy solution there yet.

Interestingly https://podqueue.fm/ , a much better alternative to huffduff-video, is still happily downloading from YouTube. If this IP block lasts much longer, I may start pointing people there instead.

Download bandwidth is way down for August, almost certainly due to this, we're on track to do less than half of July's.

@queuebit hmm! No, not expected. Is this bookmarklet on huffduffer.com? Or huffduff-video.snarfed.org?

Usage is _way_ down. huffduff-video is dead, long live...PodQueue and self hosting, I guess. 

OK all. I don't plan to fight the bot detection arms race, so I think the sad conclusion here is that I turn down huffduff-video, point people to PodQueue, and...

Maybe! You're right, it still works with other sites, but looking at the numbers, all other sites comprise maybe 5-10% of current usage. And PodQueue supports those other sites too!

Oh, this is probably due to a transient error from tumblr.com itself. Looks like this happens when a response from their token URL is blank: https://github.com/michaelhelmick/python-tumblpy/blob/21490bd6cd03d159a440b2c13a6b4641c789c954/tumblpy/api.py#L83-L97

If this ever happens, we'd need an _extremely_ easy way for Bluesky users to opt out. We already interpret the [_Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users_](https://bsky.app/moderation) setting...

Thanks @devilspeech! One difficulty here is that people often complain and provide feedback when they're unhappy more than when they're happy. I may consistently hear from people right now who...