yeah things have gotten crazy. if you do not care about ai services, block all of them using ai crawl control in cloudflare. turn on edge caching using digitalpoint addon. and keep an eye on the bots/guest visitor page and look at ip ranges that appears to be in bulk... block asn using...
yes. permanent solution it seems would be part of 2.4. other than that i guess you would have to dive in template and remove the code for the style switcher i guess.
maybe @Kirby can post the changes he mentioned in this post 🙏
I did this on 2.3. Not a solution but get rid of the links.
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/3k-blocked-due-to-other-4xx-issue-in-google-search-console.224863/post-1703907
i have had a case where i had it enabled for everyone and one day i accidentally ran it on an account with tons of history and post. i mean the post was bad but it could have been a compromised account. i should have just deleted that one post. but instead i deleted a really old account with...
Batch update users appears to have an option to bulk change activity summary setting! And if you do not want anyone to use this feature, I suppose you can disable the feature as well? Setting is here: admin.php?options/groups/emailOptions/#activitySummaryEmail
this guide can be handy.
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/upgrading-from-xenforo-2-2-to-xenforo-2-3-guide.9513/
take backup. take another one. check status of addons for 2.3 compatibility. test upgrade on a test install first maybe.
one tiny feature enhancement that would help me would be ability to sort the Current visitors page by IPs. would be easier to see which ip ranges are hammering the forum at any point of time. of course, ability to block ip/ip-range/user-agents from this page would make it a bit easier but i see...
if you do need a fast solution and can pay for an addon that does a lot more than what your requirement is... i think this addon from @Siropu should work well for you!
https://xenforo.com/community/resources/keyword-linking-by-siropu.7406/
so... i am on 2.3.4 and using the 2.4.1 version of this addon. with this addon enabled i get an error on sending a test outbound mail.
Error: Call to a member function getDebug() on int in src/XF/Admin/Controller/ToolsController.php at line 318...
are you on 2.3? xenforo changed how images are uploaded big time on 2.3 iirc where images are resized before uploads so such problems should be massively reduced? plus webp also helps.