Description
The public instance of Staticman is in trouble: API calls are now regularly hitting the Github quotas of 5000 hits per hour per user.
The issue is that every comment on any site using this instance is going through the staticmanapp
user, therefore staticmanapp
easily reaches its API quotas.
This causes the problems that have been repeatedly mentioned in #227, #222, or #242 for example.
I got in touch with the Github staff about this and here's their recommendation:
instead of using a single account to make all those requests, you should build an app so that your users can authorize/install the app. That way, the rate limits will scale much better -- for OAuth Apps, each user has their own quota and for GitHub Apps each installation has its own quota. So, your total rate limit would scale with the number of users instead of being static, which is what you want -- you want the limits to grow with your userbase.
@eduardoboucas you know your software - would this be possible?