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Been there, done that, spent alot of time after explaining myself and apologizing. It is never appreciated.

It took about 2 to 3 weeks to see bytespider begin to comply with the suggested addition to robots txt. They do not visit anymore (so far) and it's been as long as my last post in this thread.

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Absolutely what I needed. tnx Do guests not get the random effect when not logged in?

Forgot to add: I am using the default layout setting for the widget.

D.C.,.. Thank you for this addon for the widgets. I used the regular new thread list widget before, and had it call a custom macro for newthreads so I could modify the results layout. Where can I edit the addon template to call to my custom entry in thread_list_macros? Or which template may...

I am trying to figure out how to randomize the widget New Threads to randomize the output based on the number of threads in a select forum. I am using the New Threads widget and am looking at the thread_list_macros template. I assume hopefully I can edit the macro to get the results. I am...

Why XF, hmmmm,... Excellent support Highly configurable Feature rich large add-on community exceptionally stable framework I've used most all the others over the years. And you get what you pay for especially in community software.

Why not just a FA icon arrow pointing left, to the right of the burger? Hint-to-click.

@Chris D Watching over time since adding your suggestion to robots.txt,.. ... it "appears" Bytespider may be complying. Their traffic has slowled down to a crawl (pun intended), so fingers crossed.

@Chris D Thank you.

So this in the interim will be suitable for the short term if it is added to the default (cloud) robots.txt ? User-agent: Bytespider Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: Until better solutions are implemented, I wish to make sure I do not hinder any of the other desired bots either. tnx

Of course I started with contacting, but understandably, access is not permitted on this type of instance installation.

Didn't know that but not unexpected. I just don't need Bytedance (parent co) spiders on my site.

Unfortunately that is one of the very very few drawbacks in the cloud. No htaccess access.