Due to abuse by bots downloading thousands of stories in very short time using hundreds, if not thousands, of free accounts, the site has come under a lot of strain and it's costing money in bandwidth and servers to keep the site running smoothly.
Here is how the access load on the site looked few days ago:
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Notice the huge spikes at 1pm, 11pm, 12am and 3am? those are not what the site's normal behaviour would be.
So in attempt to discourage some of those bots, we implemented a new measure. For free accounts (that's what bots use), a normal click on a story doesn't load the full text. It loads a portion and then at the end of that portion now you have to click two buttons to load the rest of the text.
So as of now, you can't right click on a link to save the complete text to your computer. Some browsers will save the whole text after you click the button to load it, and some will only save the chopped text. We can't control browser behaviour.
We are very well aware that it's annoying, and may deter some good folks from visiting the site. It's not something we planned to do, but we were forced to do it. As usual in life, a tiny minority of abusers make things worse for the good vast majority.
