Recent content by smallwheels

That is ibou, a search engine: https://ibou.io/iboubot.html Given their mission statement https://ibou.io/manifesto-en.html I would not call them a "bad bot". Also, it does not hide and follows robots.txt.

If you had looked around in the forum before posting the thread you had no doubt reconized that this is quite a common issue, comes in waves, countries change and also, if the traffic shows up in Google Analytics or not. The most active thread around the topic is this...

Btw the variant w/o key should be working again as well. I filed a bug in the bug section here and it turned out that XF has a special deal with them that they occasionally forget about and turn the API-free version off until they get reminded and turn it on again...

Well, honestly it reads just like that - especially your reply. It rather sounds like you used a tool in a way it is not intended to be used and then blindly reacted to it's output w/o understanding what that output means or checking if it would be valid or make sense at all on the codebase you...

I did not ask a question, i have no signature and I did not move my forum to a different folder - as i am not the OP of this thread as you falsely seem to assume.

Hmm. Not a honest anc clear answer. So I'd guess this is developed by AI. There is nothing to find about your Dev-Team on your homepage. To be honest: Judging from you website you seem to be a one man band and "our Dev-Team" seems a bit over the top. Given that the company is VAT extempt and...

What are you talking about? Seems to have nothing to do at all with the question.

Absolutely. I've been dealing with abuse desks for more than 25 years, in the earlier parts of that as part of my job. Back then you had two types of providers: Black hat and white hat. Nothing in between. The black hats (which were few and well known) would ignore you while all the others...

What is btw. somewhat interesting: In total, currently exist roughly 120.000 ASNs. There was a massive rise over the years and about a quarter of them are in the US: Both graphics taken from here...

I had assumed it would be safe to upoad the upgrade files for an add on and they would have no influence on the running system as long as the update is not installed. Somewhat shocking that this is not a given. So not a good idea to upload the files for an update in preparation but to delay the...

Yes, as I said: After actually intalling the update it worked fine again.

Brilliant article. Best sentence: I guess many in this forum are old enough to have seen the whole journey.

@Painbaker: I had a pretty strange error with the upgrade to 1.3.0: After uploading but before installing 1.3.0 my recap statistics were broken all of a sudden.Before uploading the update they used to work fine. After installing the update the worked fine again. Had the same effect on both...

On my forum these are blocked for the most part, especially the VPNs apart from Apple's privacy relay. Apart from that logged in members do come through no matter which way they are using. I had rather preferred to have the VPNs challenged than blocked (same as you do) but the add on that I am...

True and that ist actually a good point. I'd assume it is more likely for a bigger and more well known forum to get attacked by bots than a smaller one in the first place. But once once your forum is known to the scrapers (which will happen sooner or later) you will be hit, independent from the...