changelog
Various changes to neco.lol are listed below in chronological order, newest first.
2025-08-05
- Updated Uguu instance from v1.8.7 to v1.9.7
2025-07-09
- Updated 4get instance list
2025-07-04
- Due to the massive amount of bot scraping, the Redlib instance now uses Anubis as a MITM proxy.
- Every few days, I've been monitoring access logs to the Redlib instance, and there have been signs of clear bot activity. Requests from IP addresses that provide weird/unorthodox HTTP 'Accept' headers (or even none at all), won't set cookies (such as Redlib instance preferences), near-identical user agents from multiple IPs at once, to name a few examples. Also, this instance isn't popular enough for Redlib to be getting dozens of requests from real people every second, anyway.
- The bot scraping has been bad enough that it's caused the instance to almost always be rate-limited, meaning actual humans can't access Reddit posts anymore.
- All access logs across neco.lol's services are always disabled; this is a special case where I temporarily turn on access logs due to the service being rendered completely unusable from bot abuse, and I needed to investigate. Don't worry; your IP address isn't being stored, and I delete the logs after.
- Anubis in particular was chosen due to its capability to self-host, and doesn't 'phone home' to anything. I don't trust CloudFlare (and you probably don't, either), so I avoid using it.
2025-03-07
- Added SimpleX contact address
2024-12-15
- Enabled RSS feeds for the Redlib instance
2024-12-08
- Updated 4get instance list
2024-11-15
- Uguu - changed file expiration time from 4 hours to 24 hours
- Redlib instance seems to be working again now, apologies for the on-and-off downtime.
2024-10-23
- Updated 4get instance to latest Docker image
- Fixed issue with 4get instance where proxied images wouldn't load (was an nginx config issue on my end)
- Fixed Onion addresses being unreachable
2024-09-19
- Updated Redlib instance to fix Redlib errors that started occurring a few days ago
- Updated Uguu instance to run in a Docker container
- Updated look and feel of Uguu instance
2024-08-17
- Fixed Redlib instance incorrectly displaying as offline on UptimeRobot
2024-05-29
- Added an UptimeRobot status page for neco.lol services: Link
2024-05-20
- Updated 4get instance list
2024-05-18
- Added Monero wallet as a donation option (see about page)
- Added Tor Onion addresses for Uguu, Alexandrite, Rimgo, AnonymousOverflow and Redlib (see services page)
2024-05-14
- Added the main website (this website) to the services list, as well as its Tor onion address
2024-05-03
- Added a top navigation bar to the main website
- Added an about page to the main website
- Added a services page to the main website
2024-05-02
- Added an Onion address for the 4get instance: Link
2024-04-28
- Updated 4get instance list
- Added Redlib as a service
2024-04-24
- Changed some internal configurations in the 4get instance to prevent false-positive "blocked!" upon searching
2024-03-19
- Website went down around 19:00 UTC due to scheduled maintenance, but is back online now.
2024-03-12
2024-03-09
- Fixed an issue where the 4get API was not enabled
2024-03-07
- Moved 4get from a standard PHP setup to a Docker container
- Done mostly for convenience (too lazy to git pull & merge every few days, and I don't change anything outside the standard config anyways)
- For the end user, nothing should change
- I've tested the Docker instance thoroughly and everything should work fine. Please contact me if you run into major issues
- Added an "about me" section to the main page
2024-03-06
- Created this changelog page
- Added Alexandrite as a service