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    Alvin63 reacted to smallwheels's post in the thread Known Bots with Like Like.
    As said before: Robots.txt won't help against bad bots. Putting IPs in discourage mode won't help either, as many of them switch their...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Levina's post in the thread Known Bots with Like Like.
    Tons. From Amazon to Facebook to meta-externalagent and more that come in big waves, crawling everything. And always new ones popping up...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Known Bots.
    I was going to say you could block them in ht.access and then just saw that you can't. I use Cloudflare and just the free version - you...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Sim's post in the thread Known Bots with Like Like.
    The thing is that the XenForo devs are really really good at building forum software - it's their thing. Cloudflare is really really...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Some Gen Q's About Xenforo.
    You just change the settings for them to graduate the curve between round and square (via Pixel Exit style). For example I changed...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Some Gen Q's About Xenforo.
    Try pixel exit - lots of extras in settings for styling in there, including rounded profile photos and square profile photos - you can...
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    Alvin63 reacted to Faust's post in the thread Looking to buy XenForo with Like Like.
    Cloud means Xenforo handles everything. You need just a domain name. To be honest, installing XenForo on a shared hosting it’s pretty...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Looking to buy XenForo.
    Once it's installed it's up to user/owner preference how they then set up a forum - that would still need doing. Upgrades when they...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Looking to buy XenForo.
    Well that sounds more positive then - for me though, it would still cost a lot more than my current server fees plus annual licence...
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    Alvin63 reacted to AjayJunkies's post in the thread Looking to buy XenForo with Like Like.
    You save on server fees, installation, upgrade, and licensing renewals. It's an all-inclusive option for those who want to focus only...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Looking to buy XenForo.
    Well yes but the cloud option is very expensive! $60 a month ($720 a year) for the starter option compared with $169 for a licence and...
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    Alvin63 replied to the thread Looking to buy XenForo.
    If it helps paying for the install service, then I would do that. The Cloud version is much more expensive I believe. Once you have it...
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    Thank you, that fixed it!
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    You may have misunderstood me there :-) I was talking about initially installing XF software, not the patch.
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    I meant 2.3.8 :-) Well in my case I hadn't a clue how to upload it and was talked through it by the server and a bit of help from the...
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