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Seems that both me and cloudflare users have both seen a 2xing of the bot count in the last hour or so. Not happy about it. Looks like i need to get this next generation bot protection coded up sooner than later.

That's a pretty long trek for the mouse to navigate through the site since you have not limited the maximum width of it. The bigger the screen, the larger the ergonomic problem.

That's why it is necessary to find the IP block(s) of google's crawler and whitelist them. Their crawler does not fully adhere to robots.txt and will violate many rules you set to try to defeat bots. I found this out the hard way. Hopefully nobody else has to :)

Right. You're playing whack a mole with country bans if your server protection isn't smart enough to figure out how to behaviorally analyze what's going on per IP address, which is technically possible if you do it at the PHP level.

Oh, the traffic has been bouncing about different southeast asian countries for a while now. The enormous network in Brazil was kind of a surprise.

I have a site. check my sig. I went halfway between xenforo's look and our previous PHPBB forum's look, and added some easier navigation. All work was done in a single .css file that override's Xenforo's since the themeing engine was not flexible enough for some modifications we needed. With...

It's fine, we don't have to agree!

I happen to like the look. It smells like early 2010's facebook. That's before the internet went to crap. I keep with the era in my forum's design because i want to invoke a time before the internet was crap and i'm happy with it. We are the in-n-out burger of websites Give it long enough and...

They're a publicly traded corporation and have incentives to do evil things to make money. Very few publicly traded corporations don't eventually start abusing the market position that users give them. But once they get a large amount of the market, that's usually when the abuse starts. I...

Xenforo is very good software for the price. I'd willingly pay more for it so they could hire more developers and deliver quicker. It would be hard for an open source project to have such a high quality.

Google analytics is WAY less privacy violating than sending all your user's data, including the passwords they type, and the private messages they send, to a third party. I don't like cloudflare for three reasons: all users data is sent to a third party who can decrypt it. And this may bite...

I can't do anything about the other networks my site is passing through. That's how the internet works. I can change whether i send all my user's data to an additional place and create a serial dependency, which makes my website less reliable. Cloudflare can decrypt all of the data being sent...

I'm using fail2ban here with good success across 30 servers. It works approximately as well, users don't have to click a captcha, and we don't have outages. I also don't like sending all traffic over to another company - that's a huge privacy violation against my users.

Check how our forum is setup. We do DIY ebikes. I greatly simplified how Xenforo worked by removing a lot of unnecessary stuff and reworking a part of the navigation. Our forum population skews older but the youngs also like it because it resembles social media or reddit a bit better.

I so agree with this. I'm unfortunately in the forum hater category too - because most forums are crappy like this. I run a non commercial forum and i'm generally turned off by other forums due to the extreme amount of ads, and usually lower discussion quality. That ecosystem hurts sites like...