Recent content by DesertSpringsDigital

That's a good point. My forum is fairly low volume so it's worked well for me so far. I have not delved into the other thread yet.

Wanted to share what I've been working on. https://trumpetboards.com is a niche community for trumpet players that I've been running for years, originally on NodeBB. I made the switch to XenForo a few weeks ago and wish I'd done it sooner. There's no official NodeBB-to-XF importer, so I built a...

Yeah, Cloudflare is the way to go here. Even on the free tier, you can set up a WAF rule that challenges traffic from specific countries instead of outright blocking them -- that way legitimate visitors from China can still get through a CAPTCHA, but the bots give up. On my forum I also turned...

I know this is old, but it comes up in searches and the only reply was "hire someone" — figured I'd share what I learned building one. I recently migrated a forum from NodeBB (MongoDB) to XenForo — no official importer for that, so I built one from scratch. The architecture is step-based: you...