Recent content by Walter

16 years, and the users still have hope.

Sounds like a nightmare of complexity.

If you prefer analogys, thats more like the Full Self Driving of Teslas :D

Dont get me started on this. My SSD filled server now has the value of a car.

I finally had the time to analyze the source code. The detector logic is a user agent string matcher which uses a weak heuristic. Its able to detect bots that are polite and identify them e.g. Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and against silly scrapers that try .env or burst-request. No wonder it...

Banning IPs is pointless at this level. Thats the job of a firewall.

Installed Pro and let it work for two days. Despite activating Block AI Scrapers (PRO) and Block Malicious/Aggressive Crawlers (PRO) and even [EMERGENCY] Block Unknown Bots (PRO), in the stats under "Bots Blocked for IP (24h" the Threats blocked shows a zero line for 24h. How comes? And there is...

332k posts since 2012. No problem with Xenforo.

Its highly unprofessional what you are doing here. Single out a customer who voices valid concerns. I say this as a Xenforo customer since the beginning of the company who has paid thousands of dollars for this software. But his voice is equal important than mine or of customers who have the...

Its probably not about the fact, that a single release is taking longer than expected, its about that this is quite the norm with Xenforo. And calling frustrated customers of a company "moaners or whiners" is ridiculous.

Probably page 50 is sooner here than the new release.

It will rise, but in a speed so slow that you don't see it moving.

And what if the milk arrives 12 months late?

@Kirby is on point, as always.

One of my forums has a thread with 331K replies and a second one with 130K. No performance problems.