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According to the BBC... Cloudflare said the "significant outage" occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic did not work as intended and "triggered a crash" in its software handling traffic for its wider services. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c629pny4gl7o

Cloudflare are describing it as 'an internal service degradation that may intermittently impact some services' which has got to be understatement of the year. Security experts are claiming privacy risks are involved although I'm not really sure how.

I don't use Cloudflare. My sites reside on a pretty robust server that has had no reported downtime except for what was planned in more years than I can remember. I also don't have issues with performance or DDOS/bot attacks so Cloudflare really has nothing to offer me. As an (impatient)...

Indeed but there would be a riot if it ever got changed.

Although I'm not a huge advocate of threaded platforms, they seemed well suited to DPreview. To an extent it's what you get used to, https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/ being another example where threaded replies seems to suit well. It's ugly but it works. I can understand why DPreview have...

I would get a quote from @MySiteGuy

You're over complicating things although to be fair the wording that @Jeremy P used does seem a little confusing. You simply need to replace a file on your server with the supplied file of the same name. So download the attachment and unzip it on your PC. You then need to upload that unzipped...

I would at the very least take a copy of your database before you go ahead, just in case any unforeseen circumstances arise.

Exactly, as long as a proper process is followed the member should have no way back. Give them the opportunity to identify their PII, delete it and anonymize the account. If the account is properly anonymized all the information that is personal to them including their user name, password...

I'd argue some of the replies in this thread are a little misleading. Ofcom's primary function is to enforce the Online Safety Act so unless your site is in breach of that Act Ofcom would not act on any report. The UK laws that are relevant to the situation described are GDPR and the Data...

You should be able to use the spam cleaner to do it. Personally I'd shy away from doing something so radical. 48,000 is an insane number of posts which will inevitably disrupt the flow of content if deleted. A better option in my view would be to ask the member to identify any PII they have...

In regard to security concerns, vulnerabilities in Xenforo and its dependencies usually get reported elsewhere not just here so the low count is generally a testament to the quality of coding.

As things stand, clicking 'View more...' under the 'What's new' tab returns you to the top of the listing requiring a scroll to find your place in the list. At the very least there should be a visual break point to indicate what has already been viewed on the initial page. Better still 'View...

You could always do what I did, move my forums onto SMF :) The only real disappoint for me as far as Xenforo is concerned is the length of time it's taking to replace Froala. There really should have been an interim release shortly after Tiptap 3.0 became stable. Waiting for new stuff is one...

It sounds to me OFCOM wants to have it both ways i.e. a large number of users on a small site and a small number of users on a large site. At least that's the way their word salad reads to me.