[FEATURE] Rate limit using middleware

[eddiejaoude]

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After recent incidents of people trying to game the system to increase their profile views and stats, we should add a rate limit to protect our application

Vercel has a great example https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/api-routes-rate-limit using the library https://www.npmjs.com/package/lru-cache

A more complete solution (still official) but uses a 3rd party Upstash for Redis https://github.com/vercel/examples/tree/main/edge-functions/api-rate-limit-and-tokens

Proposed Solution

Middleware to rate limit requests per hour (for example 500 requests per hour)

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