How Don't Feed the Trolls is built
Measured numbers
Counted by the collection, not written by hand. A figure we cannot support is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Pages
- 50
- 8th of 8 measured in Lifestyle, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- Page count has not changed: 50 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Deploys
- 7 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 24 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 24.1 KB · llms-full.txt 185 KB
- Feed
- Published
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 24 Oct 2026
- As reported by the site itself
Tech and AI search
Read from the live site on 2026-10-23: its homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt. A line we could not read is left out.
- Built with
- Next.js
- Read from the homepage markup
- Structured data
- DefinedTermSet, Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- llms.txt link depth
- 78 page links
- Markdown links in the site’s llms.txt
How it is built, by role
The same roles apply across the whole collection. Nothing in this block is specific to this site; what the site says about itself is quoted word for word below it.
- 1
Edge network
Visitors reach a site through an edge layer: a content delivery network with a web application firewall in front of it.
- 2
Application host
The edge talks to an application host that serves the site and renders its pages.
- 3
Data
What the pages show comes from a relational database or, for a site pre-rendered at build time, from data files built into its release.
- 4
Scheduled measurement
The collection measures its sites on a schedule: content dates and site health nightly, page counts read from each site’s sitemap weekly. Every reading is kept with its date. A site too large to re-walk is not re-measured, and shows no trend.
- 5
Public status feed
A monitoring panel sends a signed report on uptime, deploys and backups once a day, and the Operations page publishes it. A figure on this page that comes from that report says so.
In the site's own words
Each passage is copied unaltered from a page the site publishes, with the address it was taken from and the date we took it. We add nothing between them.
“This site exists to help people who are being trolled, and to explain how trolling actually works.”
“This site names the tactics, shows how to recognise them, and is honest about when disengaging works and when it does not.”
“Every factual claim carries an exact quote from a named source, and a copy of that source is archived when the claim is published and stored alongside the site's own code. On every build the quote is checked, word for word, against the archived copy. If it stops matching, the site does not build.”
“Every quote is also read by a person against the surrounding text before it is published, because a quotation can be accurate and still mean the opposite of what it is offered for.”
“No naming of private individuals. Cases are described by pattern, never by person.”
“If a source no longer says what it is quoted as saying, if something here is out of date, or if a page is simply wrong, that is a defect and it should be reported.”
Screenshots
Timeline
Page count has not changed: 50 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 50 |
| 2026-10-10 | 50 |
| 2026-10-18 | 50 |
| 2026-10-25 | 50 |
- 30 Sep 202650 pages
- 10 Oct 202650 pages
- 18 Oct 202650 pages
- 25 Oct 202650 pages