So I guess I'm famous now :)
https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-bots-paralyze-Linux-news-site-and-others-10252162.htmlTo be clear, LWN has never "crashed" as a result of this onslaught. We'll not talk about what happened after I pushed up some code trying to address it...
Most seriously, though: I'm surprised that this situation is surprising to anybody at this point. This is a net-wide problem, it surely is not limited to free-software-oriented sites. But if the problem is starting to get wider attention, that is fine with me...