Trying to force people onto the Pro version I reckon.
The free version is painful now.

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Tapatalk works fine for me, have been using pro version for years.

Sent from my SM-G998B using Tapatalk

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I was using Tapatalk for many years but the recent move to intrusive ads drove me back to the web version which is pretty good on my iPad. I very rarely use my phone anymore to read tc.

website has been struggling of late. I took the liberty of bouncing the server but that doesnt seem to have helped.

The IT support staff flagged that the server is running very old software, but we are stuck as the site is on old software too.

Anyone heard from Headplant? I know he was looking into the site upgrades last season.

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Gents

Ive offered help in the past with this, but have never been given any access to things to be of any real use.

The slowness of the forum isnt the software (phpbb3) so much but something that feels like a denial of service attack - something that can be managed with the htaccess file or a robots file in the server.

I have tried disabling guest searching abilities, but that hasnt changed the performance, and I will try blocking all guests to view forums.

This of course is not ideal - but seeing if we can get some useability back to the posters at least.

Let me know if I have overstepped

G

The site is now faster, but that fix should be seen as temporary

G

Good work.

There is still a large amount of guest on the forum, crazy.

Nice one Chris, looking good so far

Thanks GMChris!
The site is much faster today!

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The old software isn't just the phpbb3 - its the server its running on, which yes, is leaving us vulnerable.



Headplant was in the process of updating the site which requires a whole heap of changes and each step is a minefield as it is. I thought he was close to finished back in October/November last year but I don't know where its at right now.

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Noted

Just helping where I can

Thanks Chris! Massive improvement in performance

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yeah, it's running pretty sweet. still clogs up like our forwardline here and there, but much improved!

Bots are out of control in the last couple of years.

On the Blueseum I have had to lock down whole countries and implement a whole heap of new severe controls to stop them.

They are so bad, especially since AI learning is happening that it was basically like a DOS attack on your site every day.

Your only crime is having a website with thousands of pages and links.

If aggresively crawled by a number of bots it acts exactly like a DOS attack for even pretty decent servers.

Running big websites is SO MUCH more complicated than it was years ago.

It is scary, it would have scared off and destroyed so many mid sized interesting site over the last few years.

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Yikes. Way over my head.

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Yeah, it's difficult to do much about them. A lot of it is due to AI search bots which may just relentlessly search, ignoring the generic search engine rules. The required login we have in place seems to be woking reasonably well, but the problem becomes just the volume of attempts.

I'm struggling with the site lately, either via Tapatalk or mobile/laptop.

I'm struggling with the site lately, either via Tapatalk or mobile/laptop.