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  1. i gave fiddled witht he prefork a couple of times carefully.. may give it another go as our server is pretty big should be able to handle quite a bit. 

    Cleantalk we have banned out certain countreis from registering, that worked a treat and now get very little RU and CN if any. But need to ban them out from the server completely. 

    Will have a go this afternoon and see how it goes.

  2. 1 minute ago, dutchsnowden said:

    I host my server with Hetzner. They have a very basic firewall and picked up from logs the bytedance ip addresses (which were not so many) and blocked them in the hetzner firewall. I am not so happy with this solution but as a temporary step it works for now. I need to really install a good firewall with ip geocoding and everything.

    ok bud.. i seem to have too many ip's and read they piggy back many networks including amazon aws. so its tricky. having 15 forums you can imagine they are everywhere, so need a proper solution.

    I have banned off ahref bot as well.. they are really bad for me.

    Just researching CleanTalk app which plugs in to the communties, noticed they have a firewall solution so may look in to that

  3. Ability a toggle to hide all images from a particular group to guests and spiders/bots and replaced with a default image.

    Some images that can be taken from the net can be uploaded by members not knowing that some are copyrighted and it seems there are a few unscrupulous companies out there that look for particular copyrighted images then send small businesses or innocent website owners an invoice for usage, and are very persistant and some nasty. Can range from £50 to £10,000. These companies send lot's are legal worded letters and threats and can affect some website owners who are vulnerable.

    At least then google wont spider images so these companies cannot track them back. We recently got hit on one small image that has caused lot's of problems even though it was removed instantly. I am also seeing reports of spammers using images and the website owner is totally unaware, but still invoice for 1000's according to reviews on trustpilot.

    Please consider this option please.

  4. Qustion for the IPS team, can you tell me if Clubs are here to stay? we are considering setting up a community that will use clubs a lot. so I want to make sure that it's not going to be discontinued in 6 months time?

  5. Just now, Marc Stridgen said:

    This is not something that is possible within the core platform at present

    Hi Marc.. thought not.. did try looking.

    This would be a good feature, not only to drive more registrations but to protect website owners. I have seen a guy get a 10K invoice before. Knowing that anyone can upload images that could be copyrighted (i.e pictures from the news websites) it's going to get worse going forward with these companies. 

    I recently got an invoice which i am not even going to pay (tougher skinned) but the letters though our door are intimidating to the vulnerable. Please look in to it and consider it.

     

  6. Hi 

    Dos anyone know if it is possible within the software or a plugin that will hide all images uploaded by members from guests? Also was hoping whether a dummy image stating website visitors need to register to see images.

    Some images that can be taken from the net can be uploaded by members not knowing that some are copyrighted and it seems there are a few unscrupulous companies out there that look for particular copyrighted images then send small businesses or innocent website owners an invoice for usage, and are very persistant and some nasty. Can range from £50 to £10,000.

    At least then google wont spider images so these companies cannot track them back. We recently got hit on one small image that has caused lot's of problems even though it was removed instantly. I am also seeing reports of spammers using images and the website owner is totally unaware, but still invoice for 1000's.
     

    So, looking for a way to protect ourselves.

  7. Hi Guys

    I understand that the Physical Product element is going to be deprecated. I am wondering if this leaves us in a pickle.

    We switched from Physical product memberships to subscriptions a number of years ago. In this subscription we take their address information to send a few things as part of the membership. Will taking address details still remain active in the subscription element? Can we still ask for address as normal?

    Is there any more detailed information on this deprecation please? otherwise we will never be able to do upgrades as a major part of our forum is membership and we need to collect addresses.

    Thanks

  8. 16 hours ago, Jim M said:

    I would advise working with an SEO consultant if you have any concerns here. Generally speaking, hidden items are generally excluded or frowned upon by Search Engines (as people often did this to rank for things their website wasn't about) but an expert will be able to advise you more in depth on how this would impact you.

    good advice on the SEO Jim, thanks

  9. 53 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

    This is something you would need to have coded int a custom theme. It's not something you can do within the software itself.

    cheers marc

    Do you know if this would be bad for SEO by having them closed??

  10. Hi guys

    is there a way to toggle categories to be closed by default? One of our categories section has a long list of forums for each category and some categories are not relevant so to prevent scrolling down we would like to close some caetgories by default and let the user toggle the right category for them.

     

    thanks

  11. Yes this is on the same server. I had a mod who had the same issue and managed to clear it but now and again he gets the same error. I will ask him to note a time when it happens so i can trace the error log.

    in the meantime i have attached  screenshot of the error page which states header field exceeds server limit, do you think i need to alter server limits in the httpd.conf? Would this be an oversized cookie and why would this be oversized?

     

     

    Could contain: Page, Text

  12. Hi Guys

    Seem to be having issues with 400 errors from members since we did the upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7. this is across multiple communities. Not everyone gets the error but when they do they cannot load up the forum unless they log in via incognito or new browser profile. As i said before, it has only been happening since the upgrade. there have been no other changes made to cause the error.

     

  13. We have seen a few issues with old accounts being used. 

    Some account were comprimised ages ago with a U.S IP and posted spam in a section that is rarely used, then today a russian IP logged in and followed the posts using the same account that posted the spam in the first place. Very odd why they did this.

    We will do the following

    • Stronger password requirement configured
    • Force password reset on accounts older than 6 months of last login.
    • 2 Factor question on all accounts
    • 2 factor using either sms or Authenticator for mods and admins 
    • Turn on email notifications for logins from a different computer / phone
    • CleanTalk (already set up and works a charm)
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