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^-- bingo As someone who is a full time CTO to 2 companies and part time to others, the above statements are deeply worrying and it means the software could be delayed for a very long time. Most software projects have to deal with architectural or technical debt at some point, and in some...

They absolutely are. The denylist i posted, i believe, is probably deepseek. Alibaba's scrapers are identifiable, and they have a large network also, feeding the Qwen 3 open source models. Some of these AI scrapers resemble state funded actors in terms of the sophistication of evasiveness. The...

It would be nice to get a 'we're still on it, here's our current challenges' once a month rather than pages of customers, currently being ignored. Customers would not get antsy if they were communicated with regularly. A very active thread reserved for the purposes of offgassing this anxiety of...

Yep. This is mostly AI scraper traffic from Chinese AI companies that feed their AI models. And almost all the Chinese companies are obscuring who they are. These companies are one attempting to one-up each other and are in a space race to produce the best open source AI model. I know these...

Speaking of.. Attached is a log analyzer for nginx and apache This allows me to see bots that i didn't normally see before just reading the logs. If in your nginx/apache configuration you are filtering out css/js/jpeg/etc then the numbers coming out of these scripts are going to reflect only...

Yeah the question is..... how well does the ai labyrinth work? i haven't seen anyone actually use it. I'd say it sounds like a good idea. I don't find fail2ban is taxing on my server at all, it uses iptables to block traffic, which is the lowest level network function in linux, which is...

Yep if Xenforo could include a best practices document, then people who buy it for self hosted purposes can have something other than a bad out of the box experience in the future. They can either do this, or field a lot of support requests for the issue that's getting worse. My guest count...

it's been about two months since we had any communication from XF. Can we get an update?

Yes, i very much don't like the fact that i'm buying hosting from a company that's not regulating their own network. We expect AWS to be a little more classy than that. Yeah. My forum ( https://endless-sphere.com ) is within 1% of the post count of Xenforo so it's a good comparison. Here's...

Thanks for the technical report. Over here, the fail2ban setup, with a combination of standard and very specific custom rate limiters, has consistently reduced my bot count down to 2023 levels. I consider this a success because it is a 'admin sleeps well at night' solution. It just requires...

Wish i had the option to do that, our forum is super international. But if you can do it - it's a slam dunk.

About 90% the bots that hit my site don't identify themselves and pretend to be a normal browser.

I use fail2ban to watch apache logs and apply rules. Today since Xenforo doesn't include this kind of protection against extreme amounts of bots, you either need to use cloudflare or fail2ban ( protection running on your machine ) It's interesting to know that cloudflare isn't holding up. The...

I run a web development shop with all senior developers and we work on hard stuff that hasn't been built before. AI is great for reproducing things that have been done before, so we don't get good results. We are still disappointed with what's state of the art. AI slop can produce massive...

My bad for not reading the quoted text - didn't expect details to be there. Okay, i get it. This is kind of like how you can tag Grok on X. But users have to pay for it. How is uptake?