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  1. It's always fun to read through 1,400 lines of code to find hidden settings. Ever thought of making simple check boxes for these options, with the explanations, in the Admin CP? I guess I'm just old fashioned...
  2. Mine runs faster without that line...but the real question is why the line isn't being inserted when I check the box to "Use Redis to reduce MySQL overhead"?
  3. What setting triggers this line? It isn't in my constants.php file, and I do have the option on for "Use Redis to reduce MySQL overhead" define( 'OUTPUT_CACHE_METHOD', 'Redis' ); // Store guest pages in Redis
  4. I solved this by having a plugin developed which allows the built in Question and Answer challenge work with, or separately from Google's Captcha. So you can make certain groups have to answer custom questions before posting. Using these questions does not slow down things at all, and also prevents Google from loading tons of junk and spying on your visitors (yes, this form loading pulls in many dubious scripts, which is why it slows things down). Anyone interested the plugin is called (DP44) Combine Antispam System by @DawPi
  5. Unfortunately this is not an option for me, because of the huge speed issues reCaptcha causes. Notice below and it causes a 20% slowdown on any page that uses reCaptcha. Here is a speed test on an article page from my site with Captcha OFF: And here is the same page with Captcha ON:
  6. For months now I've seen a growing number of contact us messages like the one below. Notice the unique codes used. I suspect that what is going on is that hackers are probing to see if they can manipulate the forum to send spam, thus the unique identifiers they are including in the content. I recently patched my forum with the latest update that included an update intended to stop spam from being sent via the share article feature. I guess I am wondering if they could be using the contact us form to be sending spam? I'd like to hear from others who have been seeing similar contact us messages.
  7. In the last few months I've noticed a sharp uptick in my spam reports from Comcast and other large email providers. When I view the spam reports, 90%+ of them contain this auto-response: The number of these reports has been steadily increasing over time, so the risk is that my site/domain/server will be blocked from sending email to many large providers like Comcast. What is clearly happening here is that bots are trying to post, and are inserting either random email addresses from a spam list, or simply generating fake email addresses. They are being reported as spam by those who receive them because they are spam...these emails were not generated by the users who are reporting them as spam, they are created by bots who are simply using their emails in an automated attempt to spam using my forum. Due to this I've turned off the Post Before Registering feature in the admin CP, and recommend that everyone else do the same, unless they want to be blocked from sending email to large email providers.
  8. Well, I would consider the ability to send spam from my site an exploit, but won't argue about it with you. Given the ability of those who want to exploit such forms, and how easy it apparently is for them to spoof IP addresses, I hope your fixes have shut this down as a way for them to spam.
  9. When I ran the support function today I was notified that there was an optional patch to fix a Facebook login issue, as well as other issues, including a fix for an exploit where bots can spam using the email share feature. This actually horrified me. Why would this patch not be pushed through as an immediate update security patch, instead of optional? For weeks now I've been seeing strange unexplained bounces that didn't make sense. How much spam did this exploit allow? I'm really shocked as how you handled the roll out of this fix. Email exploits are the oldest hacking activity there is...why would you have such an exploit in your software?
  10. I had @DawPi design a plugin that does exactly this, and it also handles forum posts that have been archived. So if you have archived posts, rather than all links to those old posts being gone and no longer available from the poster's profile, there is an "Archives" tab that includes links to all archived posts. Here is how that looks: https://www.celiac.com/profile/2-scott-adams/
  11. I am currently getting this error code when I try to login using Google. It was working for years, then google login stopped working at some point. I've gone through the setup instructions in detail, have tried generating a new token, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas? Sorry, there is a problem The page you requested does not exist Error code: 1S160/2
  12. To flush the Redis cache the command line Apache server command is: redis-cli FLUSHALL I have command line access to my server, I'm not sure if you do. To restart on command line use one of these two: systemctl restart redis service redis restart This was also very helpful: https://redis.io/topics/admin
  13. I think so, I am using a cPanel server with Centos 7.8. Unfortunately they still use Redis server v=3.2.12, which may explain why I'm not seeing data in the "Cache" part. It works, but it my not be working as well as it should. Upgrading my version of Redis is not advisable.
  14. Some speed issues I've pointed out at more than 2 years ago, both on this forum and in support tickets, are still present. This is why I've gone off on my own path and have worked with people who have overcome most of them. I was a solid 80 on mobile before this new update. This new JS requirement will be harder to deal with, but I'm working with a programmer now to see what can be done. If I find anything out I'll post it here.
  15. I just got this notification from Google:
  16. Google just increased their requirements. Now serving JS on pages that it isn't needed is hurting speed scores badly. Test again and you will see this. I was scoring 80 on mobile, and 97 on desktop, until a few days ago when this new requirement came out. Now I score ~48. I'm trying to find out now if I can have a plugin made to serve only JS that is needed per page/module. You may want to reach out to @Adlago who has helped me greatly to optimize my site. If I get a plugin made for this I'll let you know.
  17. So I've had a new application created by @DawPi which does the following (I've always thought that the profile page is set up wrong, especially because I have about 5,000+ articles, many by doctors and other authors, and you can't find their About Me without fishing around for it--the about me tab is nearly impossible to find in the mobile format): 1) There is an option to add "noindex, follow" meta tags on profiles where all of the poster's content has been archived; 2) If there is About Me content, there is an option to display that content above the user's Activity Stream, and NOT show the About Me tab. It also removes the About Me tab IF there is no About Me content. You can see this here: https://www.celiac.com/profile/2-scott-adams/?tab=activity 3) If the user has posts that have been archived, a new "Achives" tab will appear on their profile, and when you click it all of their archived posts can be found (currently they are detached from the user forever, and cannot be linked to the user).
  18. Part 2 of this but is that their profile pages still who the correct count for their content, yet no content shows.
  19. Yes, I believe this is a bug that should be fixed, and my guess is that IPB probably doesn't see this this as a bug. I'll likely pay someone to make a plugin to fix this like I have to do with many things in this software (i.e., their 301 redirect links that are used liberally throughout their software, in their widgets, profile pages, page links, etc.). Oh, and the bug? Why then don't such profiles with no content then have a "noindex" tag like all of the other profiles with no content?
  20. This seems like a bug, but when I archived older posts on my forum the archived posts that were made by a member were removed from their member page. For example: https://www.celiac.com/profile/34654-arubawendy/ has 6 posts, all are archived. None show up on their page, but they do exist: https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/75126-what-did-i-eat-this-time/ Why would their posts be disconnected from their profile? Is this intentional? If it is intentional, why would their profile not have a "nofollow" tag, as do other profiles with no content? I think you should still be able to find all content posted by a member, even if that content is archived.
  21. So I created a ticket for this, and got this reply from IPB: As I've found with several IPB widgets, member pages, and other areas where 301 redirects are intentionally used in this software, it's better to fix them as they can create Google Crawl Anomalies where your content can drop from their index. It looks like I'll have to have a plugin made to fix this one as well.
  22. I am still running redis, but have turned off the "Cache page output for guests" feature (mine was set to 15 minutes) due to a bug with it that still exists. My site speed consultant @Adlago has also experienced the bug, and warned me not to use this feature. What happens is that the cache gets corrupted, for example it will cache a desktop version of the site with zero CSS, so the user experience is horrible, at least for that 15 minutes. I was hoping the bug was fixed, but while I was running some speed tests I found proof that it still exists. In screen 1 is a normal speed test, and if you look at the test there is a screen shot of the page as it should look, and in screen 2 if you look at the screen shot it took of my site you will see a view of it without any CSS. Clearing my cache in the ACP: Support > Something isn't working right, made this go back to normal, and verify that it is indeed an issue. Although it did speed my site up by ~10%, it is not worth the trade off. It's sad that a bug like this, one that I reported to IPB years ago, still makes this feature unusable. Screen 1 speed test with normal screen shot view: Screen 2 of a test on the exact same page, but in this one there is no CSS that got cached, and the screenshot reflects this: PS - If google's spider is indexing a site without CSS, those pages are excluded from search results. Lot's of pages on your site could get indexed while this issue is occurring.
  23. And did you try reloading the page when it was on /?page=2 ? I will do more testing, but I don't believe anything in .htaccess would do that.
  24. As mentioned, this is being flagged to me by a 3rd party--SEMRush, and it flags this issue hundreds of times, as I have many articles with several pages of comments. Here is a screen shot of the issues flagged by SEMRush: I have also personally verified this issue, although I cannot predict exactly when or why it happens, it is happening. I am using the latest version of Chrome in desktop when I can see this happening myself. PS - Be sure to use the page link on that page to test...going directly to the link doesn't always trigger this. Using the links on the page is how I can see this happening. If I have time I'll will post a video of this happening. For me all I need to do is click page 3 button, or one of the other pages you are not on, and the landing URL is: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 Refresh the page and it changes to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/
  25. This issue exists on my site, and could be a bug. The URL redirect issue was alerted to my by SEMRush, which indicated that I have hundreds of pages on my site that are redirecting from links like this: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 To links like this: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ After exploring this issue in more detail, I have discovered that if you go to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 the landing URL is sometimes: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 OR, it may look like this: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ If the landing URL ever shows up as: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/?page=3 and you hit the refresh button on your browser, the landing page URL will change to: https://www.celiac.com/articles.html/a-word-on-gluten-and-beer-r790/page/3/ I believe that something is messed up with the coding here, but of course, it is possible since I use custom templates that the issue lies in my site's coding. I am inviting comments on this, and it would be great to see if others have this issue as well. I did test this using the default skin, and the bug exists there as well.
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