<p><a href="https://github.com/migurski" class="user-mention">@migurski</a> I did look at the logs before we even deployed the new site, because I was aware that this was something that would be going away, and I discussed it with <a href="https://github.com/jfire" class="user-mention">@jfire</a> after gathering some statistics.</p>
<p>Look again now yesterday we had somewhere around 1000 requests with <code>box=yes</code> but a fairly large percentage are from search engine bots which are probably just rescraping old URLs and in any case they won't see any difference as a result of us ignoring the parameter.</p>
<p>There are also a handful of requests where the referrer is a page in our wiki, and almost all the rest lack any referrer at all, suggesting that they are coming from non-browser sources. I'm at something of a loss to explain that, especially as most of the user agents look like browsers. Maybe they are from people who have a bookmark with the <code>box=yes</code> parameter?</p>
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