Regular lurkers to Barbelith may have noticed that I’ve instituted a procedure that means that you have to be registered in order to read the site. I didn’t want to have to do this, and hopefully it will be a short-term measure, but I’m testing it to see whether or not it has substantial impact on the bandwidth that the site takes up. At the moment, the only alternative to this process is a system of rolling blackouts, whereby the site is taken offline for the last week of the month to alleviate running costs. On the bright side, a good thirty or forty people have registered overnight, which suggests there always were a good block of people who read but didn’t register. It’s nice to have some confirmation of that…
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