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Which actually meant creating a robots.txt. Since to my surprise I found Xenforo apparently doesn't come with one by default. I've ever relied on banning Google Analytics etc. to protect privacy; but as the Internet has changed in the last 5 years; decided to add some repellents to AI crap...

In an hour the mentioned upgrade to the current version of Xenforo shall happen. As with most upgrades, no reason to expect anything marvellous, nor any expectation anything bad shall occur. At: 3 pm 2023:02:23 GMT So prolly best not to be about for an hour after.

Well, I completely neglected this place for a few years, a main reason being my shattered arm, and operations thereon; but got an email saying the SLL wasn't working, although I renewed the 5-yr issue last november... Anyway, maybe this place is ended, but that's no reason not to keep it...

A few hours ago after a sudden decision to do a back-up, which eventuated, I attempted to upgrade from PHP 7.4 to 8; the site went blank. I reverted to 7.4 and the site offered a gobbledygook MySQL error warning only. Fully expecting to have to send in a ticket to Homepage [ the now owners...

Our short non-national nightmare is over.

Only may, depends on the hosts. Note, not a donation appeal. Loyal readers may have noticed, no reason why they should, that I have not been about much in the last few years. Apart from the usual reasons --- as in the manga trope Tragedy of Long Life; after a long time, just as in long...

Sorry been absent so long, stuff. Still. this day first upgraded to 2.1.12, September and last iteration of that version issued today, in order to then move to 2.2.1, also issued today. Hope it looks OK. Good luck to all in this time of peril.

They only just emailed me... Sorry for that...

The firm sent me a notification that this was not working well: so updated the plug-in. [ Fortunately the old version has to be completely uninstalled first instead of taking the simple way and only overwriting, giving one the opportunity to remove the extension, then firing up FTP to make...

Forum is about to be upgraded, just a few minutes. Sorry for extended absence, but my wait for an operation in a broken arm [ broken plates inside ] has been extended to 15 months so far.

I would rarely intimate my political views here [ Legitimist Royalist ( Jacobite ) if you insist on asking ], but occasionally a terrible event happens. Mr. Julian Assange, editor of Wikileaks, has been sent over by his hosts of seven years, over to his enemies --- the enemies of mankind...

Just to say, if an even longer absence was noted, waiting for an operation or two on my once broken arm [ 2017 ], which they discovered months ago was in two parts divided is. Apparently the first operation didn't take. An new operation was pronounced to be after Christmas, and they are...

The Major upgrade reference in our last, shall start at 10.00 AM UTC/GMT, in an hour. https://www.intpforum.com/threads/large-upgrade-arriving-plus-aramis-adieu-forever.27630/ One may have to re-log in. It may take an hour. Be aware, things may go wrong, things may go awry from the...

Note XenForo 2.1.0 has just been released. We may then upgrade soon to this, but as it is, say, like going from a 3.x kernel to a 4.x kernel, many underlying changes, and existing add-ons could be affected [ our themes probably not so much, but who knows ? ] some care is needed...

In a few or so hours we upgrade to XenForo 2.0.12 --- after which XenForo's next iteration is in the pipe, 2.1.0. Those with sites may like to note they do not recommend using the latest PHP version, 7.3, since there's a bug; but subsequent versions will be as good as ever PHP may be...

Approaching upgrade to 2.0.11 in a few hours. Just for a tiny XSS gap they discovered, but every little helps. Here's the great Laura Bell Bundy's magisterial Southern Feminist Anthem, Two Step ft. Colt Ford: 1080p on youtube...

Got this forwarded to my Claverhouse email... Hello webmaster@ My nickname in darknet is fin30. I'll begin by saying that I hacked this mailbox (please look on 'from' in your header) more than six months ago, through it I infected your operating system with a virus (trojan) created by me and...

We went down again for reasons unknown, some glitch. Sadly we are restored to the 9th, although the hosts of the lord did their damnedest to restore to the 12th. They have been working remarkably. Tomorrow, they will do more work; but if this post disappears I will replace it. This has...

There were some halts and starts and 500 Errors a few hours this past afternoon. Contacted URLJet and... There was a networking gear that was causing the slowness and engineers fixed it and everything is back to normal. They are very good.

From now on, members --- and others including the banned and unregistered, cos why not ? --- can download a thread, or even their own entire content. or others' own entire content, by accessing the three little dots at the top of the thread etc. on the extreme right. :nazi: You may have to...

Last month I wondered if there was any way to make a hosts file that would only knock out personalised ads. They are all decadent capitalism, but it's the filthy little trackers that are the main problem. So no, doesn't seem to be such a list of domains, but I did find out that the wretched...

To close an account, or for any other reason, members are required to make a request thread in Suggestions, Questions & Feedback. This is now part of the terms. We are down to an average of 70 spam emails a day, which makes it quite unlikely genuine email will be seen.

It may be noted that XenForo add-ons are added now and then, plus the basic XenForo structure has things not available in earlier times --- such as Drafts saving ( the little floppy disk symbol in the post page; drafts come up when you enter the node where you saved them ). Drag n' Drop...

Yeah, you knew it would happen. Xenforo's issuing them fortnightly. Can't say they don't give value for money... :paladin: :chibSep::hearts:

With the latest upgrade XenForo has provided more tools for our compliance with GDPR. Naturally prospective registrants are required to agree to become members; but now all members however venerable have notices, with logged times, to separately agree to both the Privacy Policy and the Terms...

XenForo 2.06 has been released ahead of time to put in additional tools for dealing with GDPR. Not a lot of bug fixes, just this GDPR rubbish. Release Note

Some members have been getting the XenForo message above, with the ghastly 'Oops !' Looked it up and it's part of a spam check. Gloomy XenForo says: If this is a privileged user, you can give them the bypass spam check permission. So I turned it off for all Noble Users, the vast...

Note there are now things called Profile Covers, enabled for all users. Strip images you choose from your own computer go above your profile page if you wish. Go to your Profile, where the profile posts are, and under 'When Joined' there is a clickable Profile Cover, next to Find. Add-on...

A hovering preview, a tool-tip thing, showing part of the last post in a thread now appears under the cursor positioned on the thread-title. :raven02:

As well as restoring the grand old member map so beloved on vbull --- except this, like most things on earth is Google, and there are no member markers to be seen yet, and it is not a view of the entire globe, with little lights as before --- to be found under Members on the top navbar, a...

We are now at 2.04 released on the 16th of last month. It took an inordinate amount of time.

With the GDPR coming, a delightful new Privacy Policy is here, that applies to all new members on registration; and by default to all past and present members, being assumed to have agreed. IT is under Help on the lowest rung, and is presented here, as The Sunne in Splendour. I do see it's...

Since some have posted threads here, I had to do permissions for this sub-forum to stop that thing --- General is for Forum announcements etc. etc. --- which means setting permissions for each user-group separately. Idiotically XenForo collapses node ( = sub-forum ) moderation permissions...

Tragically, on the 15th a database went west, and since then the site was inaccessible. Michael and others from URLJet worked incredibly since. I supplied spare databases and they weren't accepted, from my personal Full Back-up of the 13th --- the R1 back-up system URLJet use didn't work...

I rather remembered that there was some good stuff in the terms and service back in vbull --- no back-up showed pages and the old sqls seemed closed unless I installed vbulletin somewhere on the web, uploaded all the old files and reinstalled a database. The great Ernie Bevin, Foreign...

Earlier I mentioned some difficulties reinstalling Tapatalk due to their having lost the account, and waiting on them replying with log-in information. Still haven't heard, but I tricked the account by using various old email addresses until it suddenly offered to change the email, after...

The forum change was only possible due to the generous giving of members. They won't be named here in detail, but to all of them the admins feel gratitude. And to those who couldn't contribute monies, but gave support. Thank you all.

Those who remember the past may recall that on vBulletin users could set their own preference for the number of posts per thread --- I go up to 200 the max since big pages are fine. Not everyone feels like that, which is why Options are the best. XenForo developers decided not to have such...

OK. Dunno what happened, but I checked for malware, and so removed some js file, after which it came back clean. Still couldn't post though. VBulletin / googling not much help, but have instituted a temporary jury-rigged fix by substituting standard controls for posting options instead of...

No particular reason, and we are not connected with them, but a recent ... meltdown at one of Iceland's major hosting companies is sufficiently odd. Earlier I looked at email, a rare enough thing, and there was a takedown notice ( kinda ) for my blog, which is not something I now update...

Hadoblado mentioned the mining problems in: https://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=26938 I ran the site through Sucuri.net, showed two clientscript problems: https://intpforum.com//clientscript/yui/connection/connection-min.js?v=387 https://intpforum.com//clientscript/vbulletin_md5.js?v=387...

Certainly no danger, yet running this site through Securi showed 2 problems, both javascript. Both MW:JS:GEN2?malware.generic_jsobfuscator.1.2 The same as the last time things there was a problem -- although nothing seems to be wrong now. One, reached through FTP, is the...

The database went missing around 8.00 UTC, too many mysql requests, but the hosts fixed it within about 10 minutes of being informed. They are very good. :cthulhu:

OK, going to try out a free SSL certificate for a few months. If something doesn't work make it https://intpforum.com instead of http:/ And if it really doesn't work I'll uninstall it.

After many years, last month vBulletin announced upgrades for the 3.8.xx series. This may impact some of the plugins and thus the functionality of the board. Nonetheless this will go ahead when our hosts determine. Obviously the forums will shut down for an hour or more: but since they will...

Tapatalk has been upgraded on the server again; on another forum I read that Tapatalk is now including advertisements ( except for paid Tapatalk ) --- so if you see them, they are never from here. :storks:

Greetings Sadly the forums were hit by a php malware usually seen in WordPress and Joomla. MW:JS:GEN2?malware.generic_jsobfuscator.1.2 This affected javascript working at the least. The hosts kindly rolled back to the 15 May --- which took about 12 hours --- as the first blacklist...

Tapatalk has been upgraded to the latest version for this vBulletin install. From looking at similar instances, you may have to log out and then back in if you are using Tapatalk. Go with God. :cat: