We design libre / open source fonts. Learn more and contribute to the adventure of Velvetyne by reading our “about” page.
Dear friends,
Maybe you’ve noticed that our website has been times to times down in the last months. We have since discovered that we had DDos problems. That means that our server receives too many visits and requests, either from your computer or from bots. TL; DR: We identified that AI agents (Hello Claude, etc.) are scrapping Velvetyne too many times by minutes, as much as 500000 requests per day. Another tech crap is destroying internet now.
We’re not alone, “Open Street map has been disrupted… “1 by 100 000 scrapers. Nowadays Ai bots are an huge source of web traffic 2 , it remains that 51% of the internet traffic is due to bot activity, and 37% are malicious bots. Ai can be used to exploit vulnerabilities of a website to train on hijacking user accounts and exfiltrate data. 3
Last year we’ve notice firsts attacks on the In Use forms. We saw our server capacity getting overwhelmed by recursive jpg file generation. We suppressed the form to stop this. But since few month their is another threat. We’ve got visited by more Ip address than our server can stand for, up to 30 000 different IPs per days.
Clearly we’re come from a time where the web was an place for handcrafted website. We trying our best to provide an access to our fonts for human and not for bots. We are currently testing different barriers between bots and our url. We are fighting bots but are still searching for Neo! (Nerd Alert)