XF 2.3 Can not see Guests or Robots in Current Visitors

[SatGuyScott]

My site is getting flooded by Robots. I am trying to see who they are and block the bad ones but when I go to https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/online/?type=robot or https://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/online/?type=guest I get a "no results found".

Any ideas on this one? I am using the Xenforo Enhanced Search with Elasticsearch is that helps.

Thanks!

 

[Rene_V]

That's strange. What was the latest change done to the forum prior to this happening?

 

[SatGuyScott]

To be honest, I haven't looked at it in years. But we are getting some unusual traffic (4000+ guest) and I wanted to see the Bots and Guest and try figure out what they are doing.

 

[ES Dev Team]

About 90% of today's bots pretend to be regular users and use real web browsers.
Neither google analytics nor xenforo can differentiate them between

Every website of any sufficient size has this problem
Check this thread for more info on solutions:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/crazy-amount-of-guests.233649/page-10#post-1773169

 

[Rene_V]

To be honest, I haven't looked at it in years. But we are getting some unusual traffic (4000+ guest) and I wanted to see the Bots and Guest and try figure out what they are doing.

The reason that I asked about it is that something like this almost always is triggered by something. It doesn't just happen out of nowhere imo. And by knowing the most recent changes done to the forum before the issue happened, it would have helped in pinpointing what's causing it.

What add-ons do you have installed?

 

[SatGuyScott]

The reason that I asked about it is that something like this almost always is triggered by something. It doesn't just happen out of nowhere imo. And by knowing the most recent changes done to the forum before the issue happened, it would have helped in pinpointing what's causing it.

What add-ons do you have installed?

A bunch. But I even turned them all off and its still happening. Its strange. Nothing earth shattering that its not working, just strange.

 

[Rene_V]

A bunch. But I even turned them all off and its still happening. Its strange. Nothing earth shattering that its not working, just strange.

I agree. It's strange. What add-ons, if any, do you have installed that added or modified the online process? What about any manual modifications to the files for the online section?

 

[SatGuyScott]

I agree. It's strange. What add-ons, if any, do you have installed that added or modified the online process? What about any manual modifications to the files for the online section?

As I said I disabled them all. even made a new default style template and still the same thing. Strange.

AndyB sent me something to try and it appears most of them from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)

 

[Rene_V]

AndyB sent me something to try and it appears most of them from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.3; +https://openai.com/gptbot)

What did they send you? Was it code? Do you mind sharing it here?

 

[SatGuyScott]

He gave me a link to this add on he made which allowed me to see the guests.

Access log

Description: Shows a list of bots, guests and members accessing your forum. (Example of Access log link) (Example of Access log page) (Example of Options page) Features: Only the admin can run this add-on. All phrases start with...

www.xf2addons.com

 

[Rusty Snippets]

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