Recent content by lazy llama

Although CF "out-of-the-box" doesn't do anything particularly 'intelligent' with requests from residential proxies, by looking at the web server logs for stuff that is getting through, it's possible to add additional mitigation to Cloudflare rules, even on the free level. At the moment, a lot...

The change of "conversation" to Direct Message means that the template modification used by this add-on now has a missing phrase. The replacement text still uses "receive_email_when_new_conversation_message_is_received" but the phrase is now called...

Just out of curiosity, I had a look at some requests which CloudFlare were sending to their AI Labyrinth. There's nothing in the UA to indicate that they're AI scrapers, so presumably they're basing their "bad bot" status on either ASN, IP or some traffic analysis. I've noticed a lot of these...

Funnily enough I'd just been looking at Markov chain generators. e.g. this PHP one - https://github.com/hay/markov - demo at https://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/ So a starter might be a tarpit add-on which picks a few random thread titles/posts from the forum as the input text, and...

The bots seem to come in waves, each adapted to work around rules that have been implemented to combat them. Our current load of 3000+ guest bots seem to be making requests to the XenForo image proxy, with thousands of queries for images which don't exist in our cache, e.g. 165.22.177.180 - -...

“I'm on ur boardz, wasting ur bandwidthz (Pt 5)” - memes, GIFs and funny things posted from social media. A lot of the other threads are more political and topical, but that one and a few other general topics endure through the years.

Generally, Edge cert is used at the Cloudflare end, and you install the Origin cert on your server, if you have configured Cloudflare to use Full (Strict)

Looking at your site now, there are 32 members and 2,134 guests online. Is that what you’d expect?

That comes from the (very highly recommended) @digitalpoint add on for Cloudflare.

I ran a bulletin board, Arkham BBS, for about 7 years (1989-96). That started on a 4.77MHz 8088 Wyse PC+ with 512K RAM and a 20MB HD runnig Opus. Ended up with 2 dedicated phone lines with V.34 modems on a machine running RemoteAccess on OS/2. Used to get well over 100 calls per day.

Same, vB wasn't good with big threads - so the 271k post thread is actually 'part 5'. My experience has been that Xenforo handles large threads and conversations really well. I've not even had issues with most add-ons, apart from one which got a bit stressed at a DM conversation of thousands of...

271k posts, 9043 pages, thread started in 2010

They seem to be targeting Xenforo URLs, lots of requests to URLs ending in “/reactions/“ or individual posts by number using “/goto/post?id=“. By getting Cloudflare rules to challenge requests for those types of URL (combined with some other specific conditions), I’ve reduced guests by 90%.

I noticed a recent increase in Guest users on the forum I administer. We're behind Cloudflare, and I'd previously set up some Cloudflare rules to challenge connections from certain countries and ASNs. We also use CFs AI bot blocker etc. The increased traffic is from multiple IPs, with...

I found this where they tell providers not to encourage VPN use... https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/age-assurance