Possibly you have sent your question as a dm then instead of posting it in a public thread. Or tagged the thread starter and mentioned that you do not want any answers as you consider it as rethorical question and no discussion anyway as you consider your opinion as the only one that is valid...
So what was your point then? Seems you formulated it in a way that no one understands and you ask a question while you do not want answers to it. Maybe you should clarify what you wanted to say, including making your point explicit.
1. To support the company and the ongoing development .
2. To be at ease if you ever need support beyond of what the forum delivers
The license extension is not overly expensive in my eyes, so it is no big deal. Also: If you don't renew regularly basically the virtual contract "money vs...
Do you have any foundations for your "feeling" that in both aspects you mention is in direct opposite of what Chris has officially stated? Or do you just like to spread FUD?
Seems indeed to work again right now. Is this free tier w/o registration key generally available or based on a kind of historical special agreement between XF and hCaptcha, as they do not seem to mention it at all on their site?
May I ask why?
Technically not a bug of XF but with huge effects on XF-installations with default settings for registrations. I stumbeled about this problem report:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/cant-register-to-my-own-forum-hcaptcha-banned.235561/
Just tried to register on my test forums and got...
Just tried to register on my testforums and got this:
So it seems that hCaptcha has stopped the free service in the current form. Must have been very recently as I have been using it on my forums for new members and hat people register up until yesterday. I had even checked their homepage...
MG 2.3.8 was released along with XF2.3.8 on Jan 22th 2026, so basically a week before your posting:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-2-3-8-add-ons-released.235384/post-1771081
As the bug is not marked as fixed it is still there, as @M@rc has experienced and said himself:
Since I've checked this box:
.. the Dashboard has stated to populate, before that it was empty. However, this will probably eat up my free queries pretty quickly. But where would this country flag then be displayed? I'd have expected it in the Dasboard/IP-List, but it isn't there.
Also the...
@Osman: A question regarding ASN and country blocks:
• below the ASN list there is stated "Items in this list will be permanently blacklisted upon first violation." I had expected that ASNs listed here would be permanently blocked - seems way more useful to me. The more as with the actual...
The Problem ist that every comment input in the ASN-List is stripped. Even the exact example from the settings page:
If you put this into the ASN List "AS12345" will be saved, "# Digital Ocean" will be cut
Bought this add on after having upgraded to XF 2.3.8 and after some hickups in the checkout process (no Option for Paypal, not every Credit Card works) downloaded and installed 1.0.21 (the latest version).
Options that I changed reset themselves randomly back to their (unwanted) default values...
If you can identify Brave safely by the user agent it submits you can set up a redirect rule in .htaccess that redirects these requests to whereever you want or block them completely.
However: As the user agent can be manually set in mosts browsers in one way or another this is not w/o...