DARE.CO.UK · DAILY EDITORIAL · 2026-05-12
The week, in a manner of speaking
Monday's traffic landed at 7,788 requests — the first real day since the site came back online — which is to say: it works. Cache hit rate climbed to 45.5% (from the previous void), threats blocked ran to 1,491, and the 4xx share sitting at 52.8% over 90 days is what you'd expect when you've just redirected /about/ and /observations/ to the homepage. (The 2,581 404s are mostly old navigation, not panic.) Top of the request stack is the US and Singapore by a comfortable margin — 1,892 and 1,727 respectively — which is either the internet's baseline distribution or proof that someone very serious about archival lives in both places. The commit log reads like someone who couldn't decide between minimalism and maximum iteration: Variant C landed, re-landed, then settled three days in a row. Featured cards got hand-picked. The AI bot discovery layer shipped (llms.txt, the whole stack). Double-HTML-encoded entities got fixed. This is not chaos — it's the specific rhythm of a relaunch, where every deploy either fixes something or exposes what needs fixing next. Origin held clean. The site is, improbably, doing its job.