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Yeah I'm not exactly sure what criteria XF uses to determine whether a site is compliant. From what I've been able to work out from the XF code, the actual logic is not run locally - it's handled via the "call home" upgrade check the software performs regularly.

Not exactly sure what the XF devs would find appropriate - but from my personal perspective, so long as people other than yourself (and/or your staff if you have them) cannot access the site at all to view or post - then you should be fine.

If not using a local (non-routable) domain, your dev site needs to be a subdomain (or subfolder) of your licensed domain. So you can't have your main site on www.mysite.com and your dev site on dev.mydevstuff.com ... it needs to be dev.mysite.com (where mysite.com is what is registered for your...

Which trophies page are you referring to? Did you want to send me a link to your site so I can take a look?

No criticism taken. Bot management is a tricky task - I'm pretty realistic about my inability to meaningfully identify the majority of bots - especially when so many are poorly behaved and don't adequately identify themselves these days. Just to give you a sense of the scale of the issue -...

Yeah, the weaknesses of my KnownBots add on are primarily: I have to have identified a bot and created a definition for it before it shows up as a bot - so new bots won't show up automatically until I get them added (and new bots are being created at a huge rate now!) so many bots do not...

Sim updated Clean Admin UI with a new update entry: v2.0.0 Read the rest of this update entry...

I use SparkPost and built an addon for it which provides full bounced email handling (no additional mailbox required): https://xenforo.com/community/resources/sparkpost-mail-transport-for-xf-2-3.9538/ Pricing details here: https://pages.sparkpost.com/tm-us.html You get 500 emails per month...

Take a look at the XF\Service\User\UserGroupChangeService ... this core service allows you to define a usergroup change that applies to a user or group of users - and then removing users from that usergroup is as simple as removing the usergroup change - either for an individual user, or for a...

That's nearly 5%, which is pretty huge. If you aren't immediately removing those emails from your mailing list, you will be hugely damaging your sending reputation. Continuing to send emails to previously bounced, rejected, blocked or otherwise, email addresses is a sure sign of abuse (at your...

Yes. You might also want a general permission for your library to allow you to hide the log UI completely from admins who can't see any logs - you'd set that in the admin navigation entry for your log UI.

You're already creating a dependency between the addons - so just create the permissions (normally) at the addon level rather than the library level. Then create a code event in your library that addons can hook into (via a code event listener) to register the relevant permission key from the...

I think you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't really need to be solved - I don't understand your use-case. Exactly who are you going to be giving permissions to? Admin permissions are intended to be high-level rather than fine-grained (like moderator or user permissions). Are you...

Yes, if you're a small sender, you'll need to use a shared IP - but given that ESPs reply on their ability to be able to send emails, they tends to be far more strict about keeping the reputation of their IP addresses in good order, compared to hosting providers. Hint: don't use an ESP who isn't...

Using your hosting providers SMTP server is never a good idea these days - it is shared with all the other senders using that provider and you can almost guarantee that some of the users are abusing email sending - either deliberately or because they don't know what they are doing. You really...