Recent content by BrettC

Did a revisit of that Anubis human-check project this evening, and someone recently posted an issue: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/1313 They have some screenshots posted depicting what many of us are experiencing - massive amounts of guests / scrapers / LLM ingesting bots. However...

That ByteDance statement is rather interesting. Unless those clients are spoofing user agents, that's news to me with that company in particular. From my experience, the two most notable Chinese-based abusers are Alibaba and TenCent - all via their cloud datacenter servers. Huawei is a close...

Anubis seems like a nuclear option, but at least appears to be modestly configurable. Looks like anubis will be a decent weekend project to mess about with. One website I manage may actually benefit greatly from that. Have to wonder if anubis is going to play nice with the nginx bad bot blocker...

Just had a thought with these guest-AI-related explosions on various websites, most scrapers are after the content on a discussion board... so, where's the content on just about every forum? Threads. Apart from using a WAF as a site-wide deterrence, does an addon exist to intentionally serve a...

If you've limited viewing access off from Guests to logged in users only, when a future-accessing Guest goes to view something, the online list should show that ⚠️ icon. If guests are still able to view threads after you have explicitly disabled access to such, you need to check what nodes are...

It would at least appear the XenForo team has a form of Valve Time. ;)

This is the Circle.so platform; https://circle.so/discussions - Month-to-month cost, they manage the platform for you.

Just took a look at the XenForo customer scroll pane... what did catch my attention is that the forum software that the various sites migrated to (no longer using XF) had something all in coming: 1. Minimalistic Design. 2. Less focus on the user 'fluff' and more focus on the posted content. 3...

If you're getting persistent random-page-access-like traffic from parts of the world that traditionally would not visit your site, you're possibly having something known as Residential Proxies, aka RESIP's 'browsing' your site. Check out this page if you're curious to learn more...

From what I can see, the old DPReview forum utilized a really old school method of threaded/nested conversations on a thread-view point of view. To be honest, it is probably along the lines of late 90s, early 2000s style of nesting. That form of nested comments/content I've almost always...

I've sent you a DM. :) GoogleUserContent is generally going to be in the ranges of 35.208.0.0 - 35.247.255.255. ARIN reports it having the following CIDRs: 35.208.0.0/12, 35.224.0.0/12, and 35.240.0.0/13.

Various websites that I host have been the target of these mass scraping/ingesting events since Summer of 2025. The problem is, this is worse than a cat-and-mouse whack-a-mole game. This is almost a losing battle, and it requires some significant time devotion to at least shun or rate limit...

Possibly related to this? https://xenforo.com/community/threads/sign-in-with-linkedin-deprecated.216936/

Fantastic, thank you. (y)

Hi Chris, unless I've missed it somewhere or searched for the wrong terms... are there any documents/tutorials posted for this 2.3 feature making this addon no longer needed?