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Looked at it and really disliked it.

I agree. I see a number of AI plugins that allow guests to generate some load on an AI service in a way that is not rate limited. If you pay your AI provider by the token this is asking to get killed financially. People need to strongly weigh those costs or consider building their own...

The network in signapore is huge. It runs on AWS and has the most scattered of IP addresses, so a permanent ban of them is a multi page list, but it's worth doing. Do you have any means to edit a .htaccess file or some webserver configuration? if so, i can hand you some good ban lists.

The massive amounts of asian AI scraper bots afflicting today's websites do not follow robots.txt or ads.txt. They also tend to use a real browser to bypass a number of anti-bot protections. So they will even show up on google analytics and not be filtered out. The same thing could happen with...

That's unfortunate. From what i understand, they are using cloudflare to protect this site, so it may be the same tech on the cloud version. I've noticed that this system's ability to defend sites is degrading. I use fail2ban for our self hosted xenforo installation, and get very good results...

A majority of these bots are lying about what they are, and pretending to be legitimate clients, so they're very hard to identify. And they are running wild all over the internet lately scraping every piece of info they can find. Mostly it's chinese companies training AI. I use a series of...

How much global marketshare does that browser have?

What version are you running? I'm in 2.2.x and the search is inconsistent everywhere.

That's why when you're searching by username, thread, or anything xenforo knows more about, xf search becomes the default or only option.

Yes, i installed a plugin that allows you to chose between a google or xf search. We modified it so It defaults to google search whenever possible so the chance of high quality results is high. Our info goes back to 2006. Some people have over 10000 posts, so we had to expand the search limit...

Actually we went from phpbb to xenforo and our forum traffic stopped a long decline ( previous editor was code based ) and we started attracting users that normally used social media, because we had a wysiwyg editor now. Xenforo search, no matter the tuning, was worse than phpbb's, consumes way...

I imagine there's a performance hit from that?

I've seen a lot of bad advice on here too. That's why i post, to try to help. I run this limit on our website, https://endless-sphere.com And i never ran into the table full issue even with 12000 "guests" aka, mostly bots, before we implemented our fail2ban defense system. You could jack this...

I've posted the answer many times now in different threads. You problem: you have a buttload of web crawlers and they are maxing out a table whose max size is too conservatively set. The immediate answer: expand size of mysql sessions table by editing config file and restarting mysql. The long...

Not for me. I'm sitting on a year of work and i'm stuck on 2.2 because i know all my UI work will break 3 times; i'm trying to go for 2, because it's 2.4 where we get actually useful features. And we bet that version will be supported for a moment. It would be nice to know at least where the...