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Proposal to prohibit vibe coded projects from being hosted on Sourcehut

Sourcehut, a code hosting platform, is facing a proposal to prohibit 'vibe coded' projects from being hosted on its service. The proposal comes amid concerns over AI companies aggressively scraping websites, which has led to downtime for many open-source infrastructure sites. The platform's administrator has implemented a bot-checking challenge to protect against such scraping, as detailed in a post on the Libre News.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 19, 2026

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Why am I seeing this? #

You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up [go-away](https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away)
to protect the server against the scourge of [AI companies aggressively scraping websites](https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/).

Mass scraping can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.

Please note that some challenges requires the use of modern JavaScript features and some plugins may disable these. Disable such plugins for this domain (for example, JShelter) if you encounter any issues.

If you have any issues contact the site administrator and provide the following Request Id: e2d4f5fdfac20e217ed89e683993529c

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