Recent content by tribedude

Keep your eyes peeled for guest traffic spikes fellow board admins! There must have been an advancement in AI last week that enabled the creation of synthetic messageboard users, because the load happened all at once. A large number of these bots appear to be Chinese. As AI generated sludge...

Are there instructions on how to do this? Does it cost?

I am getting extremely high concurrent guest load in the sidebar stats widget. Normally we are in the 200 range, but it has been over 600 for days and today at over 1100 guests. I had to reduce all the unregistered group permissions to nothing because they were slowing down the board, so now we...

Thank you. Dear {name} it is, then.

I need to send an email to registered members of my board. Is there a shortcode I can put into the email mail so the member name gets included in the email? Wasn't it Dear [username]? I forget...

Does Xenforo have a functionality to display basic ad boxes and leaderboards? Nothing fancy, we just want to run house ads and not have to pay for a plugin. We were previously using the lite version of Ads Manager, so I don't know what's available natively in Xenforo. Is there anything? Thanks,

What are the PHP version requirements of this add-on?

Hey Joshy I upgraded the add-on without realizing my php version could not support it yet. Is there a way to get a version that supports 7.4x php until I can get my server admin to upgrade the php? Which version do I roll back to? Thanks

I am using various robots.txt lines to block specific bots but I think some are ignoring that. Google has just informed me that our domain won't get indexed unless we allow their AI training bots to roam free in the domain. Other Canadian publishers have also received this notification. We...

I had to reset but it's fixed now. Thank you all!

Hi there, it's been a while. I've been trying to log into my ACP to change a few settings. I am already signed into the forum as an Administrator but every time I click the Admin link at the top of the page, I get this interstitial (pictured). How can i get into my own ACP? Aren't these...

Here's a very deep critique on our proposed laws and how they compare to those proposed (or enacted) in other countries. Worth a read if you want to understand how politicians will be coming after the rights of free speech and expression in your country...

This thread is of interest to Canadian forum operators and those who have cloud, leased, or owned servers in Canada. If Bill C10 and C36 become law in Canada, it will have massive impact on our communities. We'll have an Internet with rigid Chinese-style controls. Over the last year, our...

I have been using Ads Manager Lite for a while to our own ads slot ads into our own forum. I just noticed that it isn't capturing statistics or serving certain sizes of image ads any more. Can I upgrade it to the new Ads manager 2 Lite? How do i do this?

Not looking for developers because there is no budget (that'll stop 'em from DMing me!) Thanks for the suggestions. The hidden forum idea sounds interesting but by running this promo within the walled garden of my board I will eliminate donations from all those outside it... Hmmmm. Must think...