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<p dir="auto">To prevent bulk messaging, sending a message must be throttled, similar to how changeset submission is throttled.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Mesage sending is already rate limited - has been since <a class="commit-link" data-hovercard-type="commit" data-hovercard-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/81d47fe50d236b96ed5956597b8c194d4ecb03bc/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/81d47fe50d236b96ed5956597b8c194d4ecb03bc"><tt>81d47fe</tt></a> with further enhancements in <a class="commit-link" data-hovercard-type="commit" data-hovercard-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/25510b6616261efff26763debbfc34040bd67176/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/commit/25510b6616261efff26763debbfc34040bd67176"><tt>25510b6</tt></a>.</p>
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<p dir="auto">We plan to work on transitioning OSM web site to use the Messaging API instead of directly accessing the content of the database.</p>
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<p dir="auto">This will definitely be controversial - there have been differing opinions over the years and at one point I understood that the plan was to move in this direction but more recently things have swung back the other way and I know <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/gravitystorm/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/gravitystorm">@gravitystorm</a> is not a fan of moving things client side and have the web site work via API calls.</p>

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