Server updates

[viking272]

Isn’t that the behaviour between being logged out and logged in? If you’re not logged in you only see the homepage.

[exxos]

Right, recent topics works correctly when logged in, but does not work when logged out. The problem there is the index pages served from a html "copy" of the index and isn't served live anymore. So the reason topics extension cannot change the paid content because it isn't actually even running.

I will see if I can come up with a fix for it..

[viking272]

We are almost at the stage where the forum could be totally behind a paywall and the sign up takes a credit card for a nominal one off fee.
That will stop free accounts being setup and AI/crawlers scavenging the site.
It may discourage a few legitimate users sadly but could be a quick win.
You also reserve the right to charge the card £1000 if the account is used in AI/crawler activities

[exxos]

We are almost at the stage where the forum could be totally behind a paywall and the sign up takes a credit card for a nominal one off fee.
That will stop free accounts being setup and AI/crawlers scavenging the site.
It may discourage a few legitimate users sadly but could be a quick win.
You also reserve the right to charge the card £1000 if the account is used in AI/crawler activities

Yeah the pay wall thing was actually discussed probably about a year ago somewhere. Like you says has obvious consequences and drawbacks. The problem is though it may not actually help anyway..

For example the login and register pages get a significant amount of traffic already and if those were the only two pages accessible publicly I can guarantee those two pages would get hammered with millions of requests every hour. So the content hidden behind it is basically irrelevant. Of course having many pages on the website amplifies that problem yes.

There is a ton of signup protection which is mostly hosted by CleanTalk services. The problem is with every system, it works fine until it doesn't.

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Generally I don't like to have third-party companies involved but that company actually seems to act upon my requests for changes and problems and the service obviously does work.. But of course costs money.

In terms of AI, that's another topic in its own right...
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[exxos]

I am not sure where to report web page issues but I noticed an odd thing this morning.

When on the board index page and I click on the page numbers or the Right arrow it doesn't change page, it just scrolls down a little bit.

PS.
Now it is working again. Might have been a local issue but I didn't even close the browser.

There was a typo in the nginx config stopping it from working correctly. seems ok for me now as well.