Redirecting Hacker News traffic away from your site via Nginx configuration
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If you wish to redirect traffic from Hacker News away from your site for some reason, placing these nginx configuration directives in your site’s server { block will do this trick. This won’t work inside a location block, at least in my experience.
This snippet was last updated December 13, 2021.
if ($http_referer ~* (news.ycombinator.com)) {
return 302 https://news.ycombinator.com;
}
if ($http_referer ~* (hckrnews.com)) {
return 302 https://hckrnews.com;
}
if ($http_user_agent ~* "^HackerNews/") {
return 302 https://news.ycombinator.com;
}
if ($http_referer ~* (hn.premii.com)) {
return 302 http://hn.premii.com;
}
if ($http_referer ~* (hackerweb.app)) {
return 302 https://hackerweb.app;
}
if ($http_referer ~* (hn.algolia.com)) {
return 302 https://hn.algolia.com;
}