Recent content by ActorMike

Mine isn't! Headed to zero IMHO! Canadian based, so even more headwinds!

The issue is people are dumb though. How much are you attempting to bill? Has nothing to do with a "strange forum". It's the dollar amount and the user's credit card usage history. I had an autopay charge from Godaddy the other day, got an instant text message stating I had a charge from...

Are you sure it's not a bot or Agent? I've used Authorize.net for 20+ years and I setup client e-commerce sites with Authorize.net. I've never observed this being an issue, and there are customers doing 250k month in transactions. You can't fix stupid. Normal people might try the card twice.

I'm not misunderstanding anything. I was simply pointing out I've started blocking country traffic at the firewall. I've been using the Internet since 1990. In our case, there is no reason, whatsoever for us to have traffic from Ukraine, China, Russia, India, Nigeria etc. For most people, they...

When possible, It's MUCH BETTER for many reasons to block countries at the server firewall than on an individual per website basis. It also blocks e-mail, wordpress attacks etc. There is no reason to have any website individually blocking country traffic. If you had 10 forums on the server, each...

I started my forum back in 2001. Used VB as well. Fortunately I escaped that platform back in 2015 and never looked back. Best thing I ever did was switch to XF!

My 1st forum was founded in 2001. Everyone used VB back then. Sadly, they went south quickly, fortunately I discovered Xenforo back in 2015 and switched. Great staff, and there are great add-ons as well. The forum grew quickly after I switched to XF and we dominate the space now. I am an OG...

No issues on our forum after updating, but I started using the IPDENY Country list https://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries/$Country.zone to completely block the nefarious countries on the Windows firewall and any chronic gets blocked on the hardware firewall. Also, I've been blocking the...

It’s just common sense: when people have spent years—sometimes decades—building real human connections in an online community, the last thing they want is to be forced to interact with clunky, experimental AI. A lot of companies shoved these features in purely to generate investor hype, but...

I've noticed over the past few months on two different forums that this company is definitely leveraged by spammers targeting forums. Quite a few IP ranges too because I actually block the entire CIDR for the IP each time and they still crop up under different IP ranges periodically. One of the...

FWIW I never saw this error on our forum. I wonder if this was related to sharing an IP address with a bulk bargain host? They may have hosted other sites using the IndexNow service on the same IP. It would not even need to be XF as any software using Index now would count toward the rate limiting.

I wonder what ChatGPT or Gemini's recommendation is on this topic?

Below is a screen grab of a banned user on one of my forums. I'm not a fan of disclosing who is banned. Serves no real purpose other than to create drama. IMHO. Years ago, I added custom CSS to remove the strikethrough .username--banned { text-decoration: none; } Also, our basic users...

It's a theme that can be purchased from Themehouse call Abyss. I used it on this forum- https://forums.tycous1trucking.com/

What's weird is how one of the founders of this Canadian based company has been in the Grand Cayman Islands for years, while the company self-destructs. I'm not weird or a stalker, like you I've been involved in this space since the early days, before VS even existed. I come from a long line of...