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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?

@wwillson not bad considering the size of your site.

I have a 5090 here serving a LLM 90% as good as Deepseek R1 ( SEED-OSS 36B ) and it only goes down when i press the off button. $2500 USD + electricity = a lifetime of predictable service I do a little vibe coding but even the state of the art is not up to complex programs yet, and LLM code...

I'd call it a success when you look at it in depth, fix whatever problems exist ( possibly by hand ), and know that you have all the other small details handled. Time yourself too! You are having AI do the easy part and i'm betting a number of things would have to be done by hand to get a...

And does it pass 100% of your expected functionality tests, including handling uploaded images and media embeds? How is converting content handled?

I use a complex configuration of fail2ban for this and it is many more times effective. The user never has to click a captcha since the accuracy of identifying a bot is very high. It's disappointing that cloudflare is not delivering good protection unless you turn on the full 'papers please' mode.

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Looks like just the ticket, thank you!

I'd love to have this feature. What means do you implement it with? did you just write custom code or use a plugin?