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    Crazy amount of guests

    Cloudflare helps a lot, but you have to put many hours of work into the config. I downloaded crawler IP json files from about 10 legitimate good crawlers and made a Cloudflare list from those IPs. Then I made a security rule that says: ( not ip.src in $known_good_crawler_ip_addresses...
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    VerticalScope Inc Headed toward Bankruptcy?

    https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/
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    VerticalScope Inc Headed toward Bankruptcy?

    Same, we have a fabulous set of moderators. Every one hand picked after years of membership that demonstrated their personality and style. We never accept someone who asks to be a moderator, the answer is immediately, "sorry we are not looking for more moderators now." We also have a monthly...
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    12 Years of Forums. What have you learned?

    No discussions of Religion, Sex, or Politics. It helps keep things cordial.
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    VerticalScope Inc Headed toward Bankruptcy?

    What!? I must be doing something wrong. I average about 5 hours/day 365 days/yr. There hasn't been a day I haven't been on my forum in at least a decade.
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    12 Years of Forums. What have you learned?

    I've been involved with the administration of our forums for almost 25 years, nearly from the beginning. We have a no RSP rule, which goes a long way to keeping the forums clean. Also, there is zero room for emotions when moderating. Man that's hard some times, but it's absolutely necessary.
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    XF 2.1 how to hide the Attach files button on Post thread page but retain its function (which is also used by Drop image)?

    Oops - this hides the "Upload File" button in Media, which we don't want. How do we only hide the "Attach Files" button in a new post?
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    XF 2.1 how to hide the Attach files button on Post thread page but retain its function (which is also used by Drop image)?

    This works and it doesn't hide the multi-quote button like the first code did. Thanks!
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    Solution to stop Cloudflare 520 errors

    Huge thanks to @MySiteGuy for helping us figure this out!
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    Suddenly tons of CF 520 errors

    Our backend is Apache-2.4.57 on AlmaLinux-8.8
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    Solution to stop Cloudflare 520 errors

    When we turned off Cloudflare "Speed=>Optimization=>HTTP/2 to Origin", the 520 errors completely went away and we haven't seen a single 520 since.
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    Suddenly tons of CF 520 errors

    Same experience on our side. I did speak to a support tech at CF and that person believed me when I told them they have a bug in their http2 implementation, but the development team at CF completely ignored our findings.
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    Suddenly tons of CF 520 errors

    We had similar random Cloudflare 520 errors that Ken from Driven and I probably put 100 hours into solving. We tried about a dozen optimizations with no change in the frequency of the 520s. When we turned off Cloudflare "Speed=>Optimization=>HTTP/2 to Origin", the 520 errors completely went...
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    XF 2.2 How to feature a thread in a widget on the sidebar?

    Simple and elegant - implemented... Thanks
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    XF 2.2 How to feature a thread in a widget on the sidebar?

    I want to feature a thread from a sponsor in a widget on the sidebar. The point is to bring users eyes to the fact that they have a chance to ask the sponsor a question about their product. Thanks for your help.
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