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Hi! While your rule is definitely effective at stopping the bot attack, I would like to issue a small "heads-up" for everyone using XenForo 2.3. The string style-variation is actually a core part of XenForo 2.3's native functionality. It is used by the system to handle Style Variations...

Thank you for this detailed report. This information is extremely helpful and explains exactly why you are seeing the MySQL 3988 error. Your server environment (PHP 8.2.30 and MySQL 8.0.45) is actually excellent and very modern. The problem is not the software version, but a "collation...

Hi! That is actually a fantastic idea. If you have a system consultant and your own server on KnownHost, upgrading your stack is the most professional and definitive way to solve this, rather than just patching the symptoms. Upgrading PHP is highly recommended anyway (XenForo 2.3+ performs...

Hi! What you are experiencing is unfortunately becoming the "new normal" for many webmasters. Here is a breakdown of what is happening: Robots.txt is not a firewall: The robots.txt file is just a set of "polite suggestions." While Google and Bing follow them, many modern AI scrapers and...

Hi! Thank you for the update. The MySQL 3988 error is a specific database restriction related to how your MySQL server handles transactions when there is a mismatch in table collations (e.g., mixing utf8mb4_general_ci and utf8mb4_unicode_ci) or when "GTID mode" is enabled on your server. Since...

Hi! Don't worry, your forum is perfectly fine. This is a very common XenForo safety behavior. When an installation is interrupted and files are manually deleted, XenForo gets stuck in a "pending action" state because it needs the add-on files (specifically the Setup.php file) to properly...

Fix applied in release 1.8.3

Supergatto updated Advanced Traffic Statistics: Live Radar, WAF & AI Security with a new update entry: Update 1.8.3 - Maintenance & Compatibility Release Read the rest of this update entry...

Hi Tom, thank you for reporting this! The error was caused by a character encoding conflict: the special "block" characters used in the new AI report phrases were not compatible with certain database collations. I have just released version 1.8.3, which replaces those symbols with standard...

"Thank you so much for the feedback and for loving the update! Regarding the two points you noticed: 1. Member Count:The widget reads the official native XenForo cache (forumStatistics) to perfectly match your default forum stats block. If you see a discrepancy of 1, it's usually because...

Supergatto updated Advanced Traffic Statistics: Live Radar & WAF Security with a new update entry: Update 1.8.2 - The Age of Artificial Intelligence Read the rest of this update entry...

Great news. I'll include the fix in the 1.8.2 release, along with an important new feature. Thanks for testing.

Depending on your server's PHP configuration, cache, or if an HTML minifier is active, XenForo's template compiler can mishandle that line-break, breaking the HTML tag and causing it to spill out as plain text. I have completely cleaned up and reformatted the code, and I also forced a...

"Hello! Thank you for the update, but this is incredibly unusual.XenForo and MySQL are built to easily handle tables with millions of rows. We have tested this add-on on very large boards with 30 days of retention without any performance degradation or 504 errors. If your server is timing out...