• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    “During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.

    Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.

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      4 hours ago

      also trying to not saying the drop is actually openAI not referencing the site as much anymore because banning people that were producing content isnt as good anymore. plus only going after the lowest hanging fruit of bots/spammers.

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          It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.

          Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too