Recent content by Sim

Yeah, down here too. I discovered the outage when trying to log in to Plex on my TV - got an error, when I went to investigate, I found the Cloudflare error. This is not doing well for their reputation. So far I've only found plex.tv and cloudflare.com to be offline ... but I also can't...

Are you sure it's actually those bots and not other malicious bots just pretending to be them? I see that a lot with bots pretending to be GoogleBot and similar.

I received your data file - but was unable to reproduce any errors. Does the error occur every time Please upgrade to addon v6.1.1 - this will fix the json_decode error

Sim updated Known Bots with a new update entry: v6.1.1 - bugfixes Read the rest of this update entry...

uh - no. Bug bot has been around for a long time. It's just a tool that the devs use to update threads when bugs are closed.

Okay - can you please run the following command from your forum root: php cmd.php known-bots:email knownbots@hampel.io This will send me an email with a list of your user agents as an attachment. You can run the same command without the email address on the end to send a copy to the default...

Which version of the addon are you running?

As far as I'm aware, xenforo.com doesn't use my KnownBots addon - so you're seeing the default behaviour on this site. Whereas anyone using my KnownBots addon is going to see a much more comprehensive list of bots. You can see the full list of bots recognised by default by looking at the...

Ironically ... I've never seen this happen before - Cloudflare currently broken in Australia! ... edit - it's back again, just a brief blip, but my website status alerts are going nuts.

FWIW, I have an existing solution for integrating with Close.com CRM - but it's not publicly available and not yet running in production. I'm still running my site on XF1.5 using an old version of the addon - the new version for XF2.x is written, but waiting for me to get my site upgraded so I...

To pre-judge a company because they might turn evil at some point in the future is kind of like staying single to prevent ever being hurt in a relationship. Kind of missing out on the good stuff for fear of the bad stuff.

As per my previous post, the Regulatory Guidance makes it clear that self-declaration of age on its own is considered insufficient for the purposes of the SMMA regulations. However, given the nature (and budget) of the sites we typically operate, it's not very clear what reasonable (and budget...

It applies to anyone who can access the site from Australia. https://www.esafety.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-09/eSafety-SMMA-Regulatory-Guidance.pdf?v=1763412027085 Page 9, section 1.2: What is an 'age-restricted social media platform'? (emphasis mine): An electronic service is not an...

Just wondering what percentage of forum operators use Cloudflare to front-end their XenForo websites?