Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months

I know of no such increase.

it is obviously sensible to assume

I disagree. There’s no need to make assumptions. And even if there were, this does not seem like a sensible assumption to make given that the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

That’s not GNOME-specific. klangcola@reddthat.com is saying GNOME have experienced “massively increased hosting costs” but there’s no mention of increased hosting costs in the article I linked to, massive or otherwise, and as far as I know, nobody has mentioned any increase in the context of GNOME, hence my question.

the massively increased hosting costs.

Eh? What increased hosting costs?

It’s really, really, really bad reportage. 90% of what they post is just rewording emails from mailing lists with nothing added at all. They’re just regurgitating words they don’t understand.

They focus a lot on drama and it’s like a twelve year old decided to write about all the most superficial drama without any technical understanding of what they’re writing about.

Their “benchmarks” have been heavily criticised too and it’s clear they basically have no idea what they’re doing and the numbers aren’t to be trusted.

Their English prose is terrible. “For this …” wut?

All in all, just a sorry excuse for a website. If it were a newspaper, the appropriate term for it would be a “rag”.

The GNOME Foundation has been going downhill for a while, they keep having to cut spending, and cut, and cut. The latest is:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GitHub-GitLab-Redirect

(Forgive the Phoronix link.)