Recent content by Apt Irrelevance

For the past few days we've been getting hit with waves of guest traffic that is crippling the server and resulting in 502 and 504 errors. We'll get tens of thousands of guests that all seem to be stuck on the challenge page but never end up in the bot count. Are there any adjustments we...

When a user logs in to an account that is security locked with the "user must reset password" option, the system displays this message: Is there an add-on that can star out the email address in this message? Like instead of displaying youremail@gmail.com it shows something like...

Just like a Laravel app with the status and rollback commands. Good stuff.

I'm still seeing this on the login page: I can also see a number of console errors referring to failed cross-origin requests pointing to the audent.io domain.

Website is down again. Getting errors when trying to log in. Seems to be a recurring problem.

I'd also be in favor of hiding anonymous guests in the Who's Online list, or keeping them in a separate tab away from everything else and not even listing them under "everyone" if that's possible. Just last night we had a situation where there were a couple dozen users online and under a...

Have there been any changes to the recommended settings in the past few updates? We've been under a bot attack the past few days and since the upgrade to 1.4.1 our guest and bot numbers seem suspiciously low while page loads are extremely slow.

Ah, now it makes sense. Another mystery solved.

Internet Archive begs to differ. EDIT: Your forum appears to be on a completely different domain.

Good to know, thanks.

Looks like we got another one today at 3:17 PM, and I found another one back on Sunday at 10:55 AM. So 3 total.

Got a new error logged today: XF\Db\DeadlockException: XF Bot Guard cleanup (self_server_ip) failed: MySQL query error [1213]: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction src/XF/Db/AbstractStatement.php:225 Generated by: Unknown account Jul 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM Stack...

Done. :)

It's been a pretty uneventful day for bot traffic ever since these tweaks were made. Thanks again!