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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...

Ruby is really bad. 4-5x slower than PHP, and because of that, you'll use a lot of caches and guzzle memory + disk to run a basic application. I am the server administrator for two pieces of software in PHP and Ruby which are both identical in how they are used and how many people use them. The...

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There is no easy way to do this. this is going to require custom work. In wordpress land i have a thing that scrapes the header and footer. Then some other code that needs to 'run inside' can paint a header and footer that looks like wordpress, which unifies the look. But you may have a hard...

they want to hopefully gain reputation on the forum and look like a real poster so that they can edit their posts into spam or SEO garbage later

I'd like to take the job but i wouldn't do it on a fixed price basis due to how many variables you have in there. I have 10 years of experience being the server admin for a dozen sites, both small and medium sized, and charge a minimum of 70$ USD/hr and i expect this to be a 10 hour job...

If you don't know how to install it, and can't learn, you won't know how to maintain it long term, and you will have a lot of problems as a result of that.

Our modifications are extensive, the way we do those modifications changes because we used non-standard methods since built in ones weren't flexible enough, and i want to minimize the work. 2.4 changes the editor which hoses many things, i'm not sure what other specifics i found that would be a...

Here's my case again. 2.3 breaks my design which prompts a major rework, but it doesn't add any features i need. 2.4 breaks my design again, prompting a major rework, but at least it offers a number of features i need. Thus, i'm on 2.2 and improvements on our forum are mostly frozen. So i've...

I use the integrated stopforumspam with some fine tuned settings and a custom Q&A captcha that gets rotated every once and a while. Works well! scammers/spammers quite often use gmail accounts and such so it's hard for a blacklist to add efficacy to your filtering.

It's much faster to just truncate/empty the table and a forum can afford to lose that data. This is a bit of an edge case issue, but yeah, there is not much overhead for if you have a freak accident like this. I don't run anything on cron so that there's less to potentially break

Yeah. Before the AI scrapers showed up, the guests count is around 1000-1500 for many years. Without any protection, i see 20,000+ guests. What's normal for us lately is to see 2000-3000 guests after i adjusted our protection in September.

Well this is quite strange then. Are you running on Xenforo cloud.. some shared hosting.. or a linux server you have root access to?

What kind of DDoS/web scraping protection are you running?