Feature Request: Enhance Static Website with Anti-Crawling, Encrypted Blog Access, and Simplified Theme Customization

[SajimJC]

Feature Request: Enhance Static Website with Anti-Crawling, Encrypted Blog Access, and Simplified Theme Customization

1. Anti-Crawling Mechanisms

• Add a robots.txt file to control access for legitimate crawlers.
• Implement frontend techniques (e.g., honeypots, rate-limiting) to deter malicious bots.
• Optionally, detect User-Agent strings to block common crawler tools like python-requests.

2. Encrypted Blog Content Access

• Enable blog posts to be loaded dynamically, with their content encrypted.
• Optionally, provide a simple mechanism for unlocking content, such as a password input or user action (e.g., a button click).

3. Simplified Homepage Theme Customization

• Introduce a mechanism for users to easily switch or customize homepage color schemes.
• Support common color modes such as:
  • Default mode
  • Dark mode
  • Custom themes (controlled via configuration variables for background, text, etc.)

I hope the developers will consider addressing these features to enhance the functionality and user experience of the project.

[rjzupkoii]

1. robots.txt is something that will get added in a future update, but most of the other techniques aren't possible given how GitHub.io works.
2. These are interesting ideas, but beyond the scope of what Academic Pages is intended to do.
3. Theme skins are already in the backlog (see theme skin #137, How to change the theme skin? #851, and toggle between dark and light mode #911)

[SajimJC]

Thank you for your response. I have also considered the following issues:

1. Even in static web pages, robots.txt cannot effectively prevent web crawlers. It can only serve as a simple declaration to protect our legitimate rights.

2. However, many GitHub users nowadays do not respect the originality of the authors. They often plagiarize others' work without proper attribution. This is the main reason I want to set up a password for accessing my blog.

3. I hope to create a detailed README to explain this in depth.

[rafisics]

3. Theme skins are already in the backlog (see theme skin #137, How to change the theme skin? #851, and toggle between dark and light mode #911)

Any update on theme skin (dark/light mode)?

[rjzupkoii]

@rafisics Not at this time, usually I prioritize bug fixes over features.

[rjzupkoii]

The Wiki has been updated with a page on creating robots.txt and the foundations for light/dark themes are are now in place, so most of this issue is either complete our out of scope for the project.