Recent content by TheGroove

Sounds like most of you all have active sites with real people registering on a regular basis that are getting mixed in with the bot attempts. In my case it's rare that we get new registrations so we just turn on moderation. One thing the bots seem to all have in common is that they use...

Finally behind cloudflare with some decent rules in place but these AI bots are still running upwards of 10K guests on a board that rarely has more than 10 registered users on at a time and it's slowing down the board on a regular basis. Short of blocking the site off to the outside entirely I...

Currently I have over 214,000 guests and my site is unusable. Earlier there were meta ai bots and we blocked them but we it started back up so I'm working with the host to help find it, they're asking me to put the domain behind cloudfare but it looks like only the paid option supports...

FWIW I started out building in Opus 4.6 (low) and recently had Opus 4.8 (high) review and it seemed to do a pretty good job at finding security (and other) issues.

Found this thread after I had been working for some time on this for my board, it seems like a pretty logical addon considering the nature of message boards and the shortening attention span of readers. Still working out the kinks but here's the long and short of it that I shared with my users...

All attempts to get my niche started on my own forum have failed, I mean I get some conversation but there's no way I can monetize it due to lack of traffic/activity. I took the same thing to Instagram and Facebook and grew both to over 100K followers and regularly monetize my content now...

It could be that Xenforo has simply hit its plateau, I mean it works well as designed and does everything we really need a forum to do. Short of security updates it's hard to blame them for not wanting to continue development on what's essentially a dying platform since everything has moved to a...

I just used Claude to create an addon that allows my users to choose between the default forum view and "What's New" as their default home page, took about an hour. I was frankly shocked at the capabilities this thing has, everything from generating the code to sussing out the errors and...

Similarly, my Instagram account has 140K followers, I shoot drone videos, most of which take a lot of time and planning and now when I post them up my comments are littered with "That's fake" or "AI" without a second thought. It's almost to the point that it's not worth it anymore, these...

The biggest problem is any sort of lack of centralized management. For every addon you must go to the developers site, register, pass through the authentication check and then pay (or not) through that sites own processor. So if you want a dozen addons from different devs you need to manage a...

It seem like it's all going the way of the dinosaur anyway, if I look back at all the forums I used to attend over the years nearly all of them are either dead or gone, mine is barely hanging on by a thread as it is. I don't think we can blame any forum software for a global shift to social...

You bet, there are only 1.46 billion of them, I'll get a memo out.

Thank you, this is really useful. Which is used by nearly all iOS users who want to use Xenforo notifications as it relies on it for the push.

Right, being stored in the browser makes it subject to being timed out, this happens to all of the users on my site. If this were a tick in the DB it would be a set it and forget it setting. My goal here is to see how many others are dealing with this and whether or not they've either come up...

Fair enough, but if you opt-in why should you be forced to re-opt-in all the time. This should be a setting that does not expire. In the end it cripples the service and people quit using it as a result of having to repeat all those steps on a regular basis.