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Another Test For Facebook

After eating a lot of time with this Facebook debacle, we’re still having problems. This test is to ask Facebook for help. (Yes, I know that this is publishing to email and Bluesky as well… it’s all interconnected.)

David Spira

23 December 2024

1–2 minutes

After eating a lot of time with this Facebook debacle, we’re still having problems. This test is to ask Facebook for help.

(Yes, I know that this is publishing to email and Bluesky as well… it’s all interconnected.)

David's head on a platter surrounded by fruit. He looks dead.

We keep getting a 429 error on Facebook, which means that requests are being rate limited. Generally this will happen if there are more than 10 requests/sec from the same IP. I can see in our logs that we’ve been rate limiting. It seems Facebook is crawling Room Escape Artist too fast and repeatedly.

To prevent we’ve set a crawl-delay for the Facebook user-agent in our robots.txt. Which it appears Facebook is not honoring. The state of Facebook is pretty damn sad.

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David Spira

Co-Founder of Room Escape Artist & Co-Host of Reality Escape Pod. David conceived of Room Escape Artist because he saw the potential of this new entertainment medium back in 2014. From the start, he applied his professional skills as a digital experience designer to the burgeoning industry of escape rooms. David is full of ideas: from in-depth research pieces to new content types… like cute animals solving puzzles. He is always pushing REA to try new things, take risks, and be something more.