They posted a bunch of blog posts about AI and bots today.
Message Signatures are now part of our Verified Bots Program, simplifying bot authentication
From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025
Introducing pay per crawl: enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for...
happens a lot these days. would get copyright strike on movie threads that have official posters and youtube trailers from official channels. maybe they are not happy with posters being shared on third party sites. i move them to a private sub-forum which is accessible to logged in users. one...
So, I have this issue on Chrome Android. Sometimes the image does get uploaded. But most of the times it gets stuck like mentioned here. It is just not converted and stays stuck on 0%. On desktop Chrome, it uploads just fine. I wonder if @uab9876 ever managed to find a fix for this at server...
Bot fight mode is fine. Al settings are also fine if you don't like ai sites to index your content. Guests numbers are also fine as long as your site is not slowing down due to load. It is too much work to keep a constant eye on who is landing on your website. As long as it works optimally, best...
would depend upon how flexible the host is. in case of shared environment, they would need to move you to another server which is possible and i have done it on shared hosting before. talk to your host. tell them you are getting hammered on this ip address and you would like to switch to a...
you might want to change the date of the thread as well i guess using an addon? i have been noticing that google search results for last 24 hours do not show threads with updated posts even when the content is indexed. this is a recent behavior i think. it really is focusing on thread start date...
in my experience, google is really slow at picking up changed content on existing pages unless the url changes. it does not use indexnow and sitemap wouldn't have an updated date if the thread time was also not updated at the same time.
indexnow is a good fix for this but they don't use it. i...
if these links are basically part of post content, you would have to edit them to point to correct location. a simple solution would be to run a find/replace using an addon or directly in database using something like phpmyadmin.
i have used a sql command like this in the past:
UPDATE xf_post...