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Re: to do
« Reply #105 on: April 18, 2018, 06:12:08 AM »
with mark's face, yes

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Re: to do
« Reply #106 on: July 17, 2018, 10:12:50 PM »
whats with all the guests 

i routinely see 4-6 guests lurking in the forum

is it bots or people lurking or you guys when you can't be bothered to login or what

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« Reply #107 on: July 17, 2018, 10:16:14 PM »
Just me and a bunch of bots, probably.

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« Reply #108 on: July 18, 2018, 05:58:46 AM »
yep we get assloads of bots for some reason
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Re: to do
« Reply #109 on: November 22, 2022, 12:36:58 PM »
now it's more like 20 lol

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« Reply #110 on: November 28, 2022, 12:09:26 AM »
why do the bots never say hi..... come out friends  :dancedog:

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« Reply #111 on: November 28, 2022, 12:10:09 AM »
(i appreciate the work our admins do in keeping out the robot army)

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« Reply #112 on: November 28, 2022, 01:37:05 AM »
It's been pretty smooth since setting up reCaptcha.  As much as people criticize it, reCaptcha is basically the savior of server admins.  None of the other options I tried had any effect.  Blocking bad IP ranges, honey pots, skill-testing questions.  Bots found ways around all of it.

reCaptcha was so effective that for a while I was worried that registrations were simply broken.  Had to create a test account just to make sure it still worked.

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« Reply #113 on: November 28, 2022, 06:23:59 AM »
On my dead-ass SMF I added questions like "What is 'tree' spelled backwards?" to the register form.

Super fragile if anyone out there decides to program bots specifically for this specific dead-ass SMF, but no bot issues for years since.

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« Reply #114 on: December 07, 2022, 02:05:32 PM »
I made a change to make stuff better.  Let me know if I made stuff worse instead.

Just a syntax thing to prevent the error log from filling up.

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Re: to do
« Reply #115 on: September 25, 2023, 05:18:26 PM »
Expected four hours of maintenance on Sept 27th, 7pm GMT.

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Re: to do
« Reply #116 on: September 30, 2023, 09:53:18 AM »
damn how did they go

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« Reply #117 on: September 30, 2023, 10:05:39 AM »
Was actually rescheduled to today, the 30th.  Might see some performance improvements afterwards, though I'm not sure we'd be able to notice it.

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Re: to do
« Reply #118 on: November 14, 2023, 05:17:27 PM »
Had to repair a couple database tables that had crashed.  Hopefully no ill effects will be felt.