VOIP-INFO.org 's Xenforo implementation and it's pleasant idiosyncrasies

[drmurdoch]

Isn't all caps SHOUTING ?



The font is an awkward read but is ... "readable". The all caps is just bad.

But for practical engineering type discussion ... the big question is ... ALL CAPS .... WHY ?

 

[drmurdoch]

Pleasant idiosyncrasy #2

 

[drmurdoch]

And the ever present



I almost expect it now.

 

[drmurdoch]

this notification area, seems to work the 7th or 8th time after being clicked.

 

[hecatae]

If I try to reply anywhere,cloudflare asks me to prove I'm not a bot

 

[DoubleDriveLine]

The time out for Cloudflare seems to be ridiculously short. If I have the normal long winded post to make by the time I am done Cloudflare wants me re authenticate which loses the post I just spent time creating. I figured out how to get it back but the time out is way too short.

Cloudflare is also why the notification section @drmurdoch is talking about doesn't work right all the time. It shows up before you authenticate to cloudflare.

 

[DoubleDriveLine]

@drmurdoch Post 2 of this thread looks like spam control like you tried to make an additional posts back to back too soon.

Post 3 of this thread looks like it is a database error so to speak. Xenforo uses a setting in MySQL/MariaDB as the size for a session table. If that setting is too small excessive numbers of BOTs/Guests to the forum can fill up the table and cause that error. Hourly the forum software will run a cronjob that will clean up that table and the problem goes away. The fix is to increase the size of the settings. There are 2 of them that have to change but I don't remember which ones they are. The default is 16MB and will get filled up if you have 3,000 to 4,000 guest accounts scanning the forums. In theory Cloudflare should stop that issue from happening but I see a number of bots and guests scanning the forums now.

Note that issue with too many or an abnormally large number os guests is caused by AI training itself from forums. I have seen posts on the Xenforo Customer forums where sites got hit with 40K guests. Most servers can't handle that very long.

 

[ostridge]

cloudflare asks me to prove I'm not a bot

Likely because of your photo?

 

[kenn10]

If you're going to make a long post and it comes back with Cloudflare, just open another tab on your browser and log back into the forum. Then you can go back to your original tab and post your reply. The whole setup is incredibly annoying but it is not run by IncrdiblePBX folks.