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Yeah.. i can't think of a single software today that doesn't require bolting on aftermarket software on. It's a shame, we are going to lose the indie internet over it if someone doesn't intervene. Thanks, it would be great to have some people interested in it once i've proven it out on our...

Man, i wake up in the morning and play fractional CTO to a bunch of little companies so that this doesn't happen. I can't help but be concerned when the developer team has ghosted us for 6 months now. Really hope Xenforo team doesn't keep us all in this anxiety mode much longer.

People will still want a longform format; it may look different. :)

Harsh but true. Xenforo doesn't equip users with what they need to defend their site. AI bots have raised the minimum amount of technical skill and Xenforo has not re-lowered it. But they are not alone, i don't know of a single web app that does a good job of defending itself out of the box. So...

Internet is very much alive on forums and other longform sources. It's big social media sites, which don't control for AI usage, which are going to crap. ..and nothing of value was lost

A nice backend for the admin is cool but the experience for the other 99.9% of it's users is so much more important. That's where Xenforo can kick ass if customized appropriately. It wins because it's easier to customize. AI chatbots rely on a steady stream of human produced text to remain...

Why should discussions about how to ward off bots not include other technologies?

consistently 2-3k guests here on fail2ban lately. the secret sauce is good banlists :) Glad you found an answer btw, that's a record amount of guests i've heard of on any site

A big problem with Discourse is that it's written in Ruby. Ruby is 4-5x slower than PHP.. so what people who program in it do, is cache the heck out of everything. It also uses substantially more RAM itself.. on top of what you are adding with in memory caches ( at a minimum, double your...

Read this today.. https://www.techspot.com/news/110432-alibaba-bytedance-moving-ai-training-offshore-bypass-china.html Alibaba and ByteDance are among the companies routing training jobs for their latest large language models to data centers in countries such as Singapore and Malaysia...

Yes, that's why i don't like it. I wish the majority case was that it didn't interrupt a legitimate user's experience often, if at all. But it doesn't seem to work that way. Thanks for prompting me to look into the source code. It seems to be rich in well updated banlists. :) They are asking...

anubis would be capable of doing this. But it takes server skills and root access to set up. I want to like Anubis, but i think it is possible to build something smarter that's also less complicated. Recently i came up with the right database to power something better, so i'll be writing a...

I would never use a cloud option. I would have built my own software if nothing like Xenforo self hosted was available. I hope the team has not ghosted us or is about to announce they got bought out by investors. 5 months of ignoring customers is pretty spooky.

that's gonna be a tough sell to the hosting company but it doesn't hurt to try.

Usually you'd have to convince the hosting company to give you the account but with no contact with the owner, that's gonna be pretty tough.