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Lounge - YaBB Development & Mods https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?catselect=lounge Lounge - YaBB Development & Mods en-us YaBB Development & Mods Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:51:51 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss YaBB 2.7.00 Revision: 2044 30 Talk it Up - bots https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1760591040/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1760591040/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (fd) Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:04:00 GMT Hi everyone. I run this forum: <a href="https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl" target="_blank">https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl</a> Starting a few days ago, it has been struggling to handle the bot load. The YaBB software is was saying 2500 "visitors" (I have the time period set to 15 minutes). This how now increased to nearly 4000. Rebooting worked briefly to bring the speed back up to normal, but I think the bots figured out that trick and are now back in higher numbers. That tricks does not work any more. The forum has 3,700 users, 117,000 topics and 3,400,000 posts. I am on a namecheap VPS Quasar hosting plan with 6GB of RAM. Would a "better quality" host deal with this better? I have been with them for nearly two years without issue, so I suspect this is a new advance in bot maliciousness, not a host issue. Namecheap contacted me and gave me some suggestions for robots.txt, but that made no difference. They made two other suggestions. One is that Perl is outdated and does not handle high traffic well because it "spawns a new perl interpretter for nearly every request." Does not mean that I would get around the problem by migrating to one of the php forums? They also suggested cloudflare. How painful is that to set up, and will the free version or the $20/month version solve my problems? I don't think I could afford the next one up. Talk it Up - YaBB won't start https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1710350194/3#3 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1710350194/3#3 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (pyragony54) Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:59:01 GMT <a href="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1710350194/2#2">shoelessbruce wrote</a> on Mar 13th, 2024 at 7:42pm: <div id="455E59535A534545544443555307043600"> I is rookie... </div> It is possible that your server operator does not support PERL. Then a lot of manual work is required, if it is even possible. Talk it Up - Bad Passwords 2017 https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1515424475/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1515424475/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Dandello) Mon, 8 Jan 2018 15:14:35 GMT <a href="https://www.techlicious.com/blog/worst-passwords-2017/?techlicious-badpasswords=&ad_id=505357&share-ad-id=1" target="_blank">worst-passwords-2017</a> Talk it Up - Happy New Years https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1514827133/1#1 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1514827133/1#1 Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:10:21 GMT And may you receive what you need (rather than what you deserve). Talk it Up - Test https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1512224273/1#1 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1512224273/1#1 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Sire Chuck) Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:27:46 GMT <a href="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1512224273/0#0">Sire Chuck wrote</a> on Dec 2nd, 2017 at 2:17pm: <div id="7D75755B504A13133E01">Test from Charlie <img rel=";-)" src="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/yabbfiles/Smilies/cool.gif" alt="Cool" title="Cool" /> Edited: <div>Testing Modify</div> </div> Another test from Charlie Talk it Up - All my mySQL sites have crashed https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1478492556/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1478492556/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Dandello) Mon, 7 Nov 2016 04:22:36 GMT Just letting everybody know I've got other things on my mind - The server software on the VPS was at its end of life so I had it updated. Unfortunately, Apache 2.4 on the server has disabled all the .htaccess files which has totaled most of my other sites (the monetized ones) and there's a problem with all my sites that use mySQL for data storage. The data is there - I can get to them using PHP but not with Perl. Luckily none of the YaBB tests were using mySQL. Edited: <div>The problem reaching the databases was creating a situation that made it look like .htaccess wasn't working. Apparently the techs fubarred on the upgrade and installed some 32-bit items that didn't play well with the rest of it.</div> Talk it Up - My life with YaBB https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1475068366/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1475068366/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Dandello) Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:12:46 GMT <a href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fixing_problems.png" rel="gb_image[nice_pics]" title="fixing_problems.png"><img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fixing_problems.png" id="post_img_resize" alt="fixing_problems.png" title="fixing_problems.png" /></a> <img rel="[smiley=wallbash.gif]" src="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/yabbfiles/Smilies/wallbash.gif" alt="Smiley" title="wallbash" /> (Gaining on moving the code to the comply with the strict pragma.) Talk it Up - Menu disappears ... Quickly FIXED. https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1468423868/5#5 YaBB Development & Mods/Talk it Up https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1468423868/5#5 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Dandello) Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:49:45 GMT To clarify - most of the time when the management or functioning of other forums (no matter what forum) is brought up, it's to be negative about the management of that other forum in a place where that management can't defend themselves and may not even know they're subject to discussion. I honestly have no idea why YaBBForum's preview function is so slow and I freely admit that my javascript skills are not good enough to code the preview be an 'in browser' function. <img rel=";-)" src="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/yabbfiles/Smilies/sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /> But I'm glad it functions well here. I'm a member of quite a few forums where the preview has to be refreshed to see any changes made. Edited: <div>Remember, for the vast majority of forums, the rules that are in place are a response to that admin's experiences in running that or other forums. For myself, I have had very bad experiences with people (not YaBBers and not here) making very negative comments about other forums - including members of other forums making flat out false statements about MY forums and members. So - concerning YaBBForum - a quick note that they're having problems that maybe I can fix, fine. Beyond that, please don't.</div> The Comedy Club - Bugs!!! https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1467207822/0#0 YaBB Development & Mods/The Comedy Club https://yabbforumsoftware.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1467207822/0#0 no-email@yabbforumsoftware.com (Dandello) Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:43:42 GMT <a href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/new_bug.png" rel="gb_image[nice_pics]" title="new_bug.png"><img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/new_bug.png" id="post_img_resize" alt="new_bug.png" title="new_bug.png" /></a> We know this one. <img rel="[smiley=vrolijk_1.gif]" src="https://yabbforumsoftware.com/yabbfiles/Smilies/vrolijk_1.gif" alt="Smiley" title="vrolijk_1" />