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Serverside of course, but i would think the loading bar can be per connection rather than be per account right? Like a connection is attempted, starting the loading bar, and then 5s later you only allow that connection to continue the load? I do non-web dev stuff so maybe i'm missing something but it sounds like should be easy enough.


What stops you dropping the connection the moment you realize you're being loading barred.


Presumably the point is that the user (or bot) wants to access the content, a connection would have to complete the load successfully to do what they came for. if they just drop it instantly then that's a bot turned away.


But you don't want to throw an arbitrary five second delay into login for every good user, they hate that sort of thing whereas the bot doesn't care.




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