Our new home - post your opinions here

[Jon]

The developers have spent the last 10 years tweaking and improving on vBulletin. Nice little touches here and there.

Is it important to have the count of visitors to each category? I ask this because half the time they are bots trying to hack the site!

 

[AccessBlaster]

Pretty cool so far, thanks Jon!

 

[Jon]

@AccessBlaster You're welcome!

 

[pbaldy]

Is it important to have the count of visitors to each category? I ask this because half the time they are bots trying to hack the site!

Not to me, but I do recall some forum I was on (can't remember which, or the software) where when you were viewing a thread it would show anybody else viewing the thread. If I saw Joe Blow was already looking at the thread, I'd assume he had it covered and wouldn't bother answering. Obviously it would depend on who it was, but if it was a normal "helper" I wouldn't jump in.

 

[Jon]

I think I've seen add-ons for who is currently viewing the thread.

I've found this: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/user-activity-by-xon.5567/#lg=1&slide=0

Might work, although anything like that adds to server load and therefore site performance. Might be worth looking at though.

 

[vba_php]

Is it important to have the count of visitors to each category? I ask this because half the time they are bots trying to hack the site!

not really Jon. I was just asking. I don't care one way or the other. but are you sure that the bots are black-hat oriented? aren't most of them google bots, or yandex, msn, yahoo and everyone else?

 

[Jon]

I was getting 2,000 guests per day, which was odd. So I checked the IP addresses and most were from China who were doing SQL injection attempts according to the URL errors they were generating.

 

[Jon]

I've added a count add-on as a test. Not too happy with it so far as I think it will affect performance. But you can see under the reply box some data, and also in the Lastest Posts widget on the right.

 

[vba_php]

most were from China who were doing SQL injection attempts according to the URL errors they were generating.

LOL!!! no kidding!? that's awesome! I'm glad you are secure enuf to prevent that. Do you know what an escape string is? Have you studied them, since you said you were studying ROR? PHP has the function my_real_escape_string that is heavily used by professionals to stop injection attempts.

 

[Jon]

We were not secure enough before, which is part of the problem. This software is much more robust.

 

[pbaldy]

I've added a count add-on as a test. Not too happy with it so far as I think it will affect performance. But you can see under the reply box some data, and also in the Lastest Posts widget on the right.

It's not a big deal if it affects performance, which we all like. Now go to bed for cryin out loud!

 

[Jon]

Actually, that is exactly what I will be doing! No doubt end up dreaming about web configuration again.

 

[vba_php]

It's not a big deal if it affects performance, which we all like. Now go to bed for cryin out loud!

yeah no kidding Jon! =)

 

[Jon]

 

[AccessBlaster]

Has the file upload size changed? Or the file extensions?

 

[GinaWhipp]

If the post happened between the backup of data and the re-launch then it will be gone.

It did but Jon was kind enough to put one back so no retyping. The other one is not an issue, so I'm good.

 

[vba_php]

hey Jon,

regarding what I mentioned before about not seeing the number of viewers in each forum....it appears you do have the feature elsewhere:

 

[Dlovan]

oww very very good design , it's much much better than previous one from performance & design , you know @Jon12345 it's been 4 years i'm guest from this forum , i was trying to be member but unfortunately i didn't know what's going on with my email , each time says you can't register because you're already a member , but fortunately at this new version it's been fixed after 5 years now i'm a member congratulation bro

 

[NauticalGent]

Working from Bahrain this morning...first time using the new site on a Gov computer and I am smiling like a kid at Christmas. Still working through the "newness" but I know this is going to be good.

Our future's so bright, we gotta wear shades...

 

[vba_php]

Our future's so bright, we gotta wear shades...

right on, Gent! =)