phpBB Discussion • What can other uses suggest for spambot defense.
Good afternoon all, My tiny little BBS forum is getting clobbered with spambots. I tried to set up a recpatcha last night and i have my key and secret key, however when i go into the ACP is see that...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: What can other uses suggest for spambot defense.
Q&A works fine. You just need the right kind of question that cannot be searched for. One that needs some intelligence and logic to work out, like something about your logo or a word on your site...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.3][DEV] Responsive Navbars
Good day! When using the extension QuickReply Reloaded. The lower navbar overlaps the answer field. Is it possible to somehow make these extensions work together?photo_2025-02-11_17-50-11.jpgOpen...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Is there a way to set private messaging so that users...
Is there a way to set private messaging so that users can only message the admin and not each other?Statistics: Posted by 12stringbassist — Wed Feb 12, 2025 1:28 pm
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Is there a way to set private messaging so that...
Is there a way to set private messaging so that users can only message the admin and not each other?Not that I know of, but there's a Contact Admin extension which can simulate that.Statistics: Posted...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Post making registration fields required
Hi, Is there a way to force certain profile fields, both the standard and custom fields so they have to be filled in?thanks in advanceNot sure about the default profile fields but a custom profile...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Finding the original name of an uploaded image
The only thing I see is the physical file is not listed in file list.If you are using FTP use SFTP instead. Servers typically limit file listing to 10K when using FTP. Note this also affects...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.2][3.3][BETA] Advanced Polls
Firstly this extension is excellent. If this question has been asked earlier, i havent found it. --> Is there a simple adjustment that can be made in the CODE to change the limitation of 10 topics...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.3][DEV] Stats On Index
I was playing around with the date format layout in another ext and came up with this little bit of code.$start_date = $this->user->format_date(date($this->config['board_startdate']));That...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • avatar's not available...
Until recently I've been running 3.3.11. I just updated to 3.3.14. I have 3 avatar packs which I downloaded from the pbpBB website and copied into images/avatars/gallery/ Here's the directory...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: avatar's not available...
Are the image files present in the NFL_Teams, cat_breeds and workers folders?Statistics: Posted by ssl — Thu Feb 13, 2025 6:10 pm
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: When will phpBB 4.0.0 final version be released?
With the extent to which my forum is customized, I think I may end up on 3.x forever Also it really does everything I want, apart from having an API, but even that may happen.Statistics: Posted by nou...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Excessive forum load time
Hello, For the last couple of months my forum has been running very slow due to a huge increase of "visitors". There are always over 1,000 users online permanently of which almost all are "guests"...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Excessive forum load time
By the way, my robots.txt file looks like this:Code: User-agent: *Disallow: /User-agent: BingbotDisallow:User-agent: GooglebotDisallow:Set to allow only Google and Bing bots, and blocking all the...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.2][3.3][RC] AI Labs with Midjourney,...
So i figured it out... When inputing your API key, remember to take out the < and > lolStatistics: Posted by Aragon Burner — Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:10 am
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Purging sessions
IP's from AWS(and other hosting services) are usually bad bots scraping content. One exception for AWS is Duckduckgo. Check the user agent, if it's Duckduckgo or any bot identifying itself through the...
View Article[3.3.x] Styles Support & Discussion • Re: Upgrading Font Awesome
Hi,I have upgraded FontAwesome as explained here viewtopic.php?t=2653354I have also a BBcode that allows to display an icon in a message :BBcode [fa]{SIMPLETEXT}[/fa]html <i class="icon...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Issue with update from 3.3.13 to 3.3.14
Did you ever solve this? If so, how?Statistics: Posted by wafflesmcduff — Fri Feb 14, 2025 11:56 am
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.3][DEV] Topic Statistics
How close are we to a testing release? Very close. I have to redo the layout to fit everything correctly.I am also working in the same time to bring back my community + work.I am hoping this Sunday I...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: What can other uses suggest for spambot defense.
Thank you all for your insights. I think my problem was too many Q&A's with too many answer options and left unchecked for too long. After some great moral support i got in a PM i have modified...
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