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SKevo

luceos each discussion seems to be unique. Some are in English, most of them in Chinese. But all of them include various links to latestdatabase[.]com blog posts, so blocking that phrase would be sufficient enough IMO

luceos

SKevo spam prevention blocks any 'n' first posts from new users if they contain links, why isn't that used @meetdilip ? Or is it you don't want those posts held for moderation?

SKevo

luceos

meetdilip SKevo FoF Filter which should remove posts automatically.

I think it doesn't. I have had it enabled for a while now. It says

Input text or words to filter, one per line. If the content of a user’s post contains a string you want to filter, it will be flagged for approval. Resistant against 133t.

So I have to manually deal with it in the mod queue.

meetdilip So if we can some how stop a topic or post being created if it has a banned word, we pretty much win.

I too believe that removing the post right away without holding it for approval would be better, as you can have +100 flagged posts in a couple of minutes, and I can imagine that can be annoying to deal with (saw it on the forum)

meetdilip

luceos @meetdilip ? Or is it you don't want those posts held for moderation?

I already have something that moves all new posts into moderation. Maybe that is why I didn't notice any difference when the spam prevention is turned on.

This spam is mostly links from latestdatabase.com. They have increased the frequency from a few posts per week to a few posts a day.

luceos is it you don't want those posts held for moderation?

would be nice if there is an option to reject banned link posts than sending them to mod queue.

Thanks.

meetdilip

SKevo Thanks for the hardwork 🙂

meetdilip

I forgot to mention what the current workflow is to deal with spammers.

Delete the post
Delete the post permanently
Ban user

It is normally 1 spam post per user. So the higher the number of posts are the workflow becomes tougher.

IIRC there was filter plugin which would not allow to post at all if there is a banned word. I am happy that there is a ban IP plugin. But in this case, something like ban IP range is more useful.

Yolo

we have "increased" the problem that messages are not sent correctly. then this "oops" message comes up. The messages will be sent after a long wait, but then @nicknames and quotes will not be linked.

SKevo

Yolo what's your forum URL? Anything at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings under the logs section?

22b

SKevo Thanks. I understand the concern with sending out lots of email, so hope you can find a solution 🙂

djemyjenab

@SKevo Is there any way we can migrate our forum hosted by FreeFlarum to our own hosting server ? If we hit our limit forum members?

If yes, how to do it?

luceos

djemyjenab Is there any way we can migrate our forum hosted by FreeFlarum to our own hosting server ? If we hit our limit forum members?

If you log in to freeflarum.com you should have the ability to create and download a backup/export.

djemyjenab

luceos OK got it.

meetdilip

The spam is back.

tom23

@SKevo Hello everyone.
Do you also have the problem that it sometimes takes a long time before you can send a contribution? In addition, the link to other posts often did not work. So if you click on "reply" the name will not be linked.

Trc4

tom23 same here

oops! Something went wrong there. Please reload the page or try again.

The post was still sent and displayed when you reload the page. However, the links are not correct: @"unknown"#p123456

DavecUK

tom23 yes, been doing it for 2 days now. Lots of times get the red box (something went wrong)

When you refresh, the post is there but the response is to [unknown]

It's generating a lot of double postings.....it's as if there is something going on with writes due to a parameter change on the server.

SKevo

It's happening because older forums were still using the SMTP driver to send mail through FreeFlarum. I have changed it so all forums that had the old localhost mail settings are using the mail driver now (which is the currently supported settings). Please let me know if that fixed the issue

(I will also fix the issue with emails to info@freeflarum.com being undeliverable)

Yolo

SKevo Please let me know if that fixed the issue

Works fine here! Thank you 😎

Jason-FaWoWa

SKevo Hey, I'm Jason from the fahrradwagen community. This problem is still present in a special edge-case. I'm not entirely sure if I should make it public, because the error response seems to contain a subscription token. I'm not sure if this token is something sensitive or not.

Trc4

SKevo It's happening because older forums were still using the SMTP driver to send mail through FreeFlarum. I have changed it so all forums that had the old localhost mail settings are using the mail driver now (which is the currently supported settings). Please let me know if that fixed the issue

oops! Something went wrong there. Please reload the page or try again.

Exactly the same error has been appearing again for a few days. Not consistently, but every now and then.

meetdilip

Spammers are now using VPN.

tom23

After I "fixed" the forum it runs much better. should I empty the cash regul arly?Shouldn't this run automatically, if it's necessary? What is the background of this Button on FreeFlarum? Please enlighten me 🙂

SKevo

tom23 clicking on the "Fixup" button at FreeFlarum settings will do 3 things:

It clears Flarum cache (this is the same as going to Admin > Dashboard > Tools > Clear cache);
It migrates the forum database;
It synchronizes the forum with our master forum (if there are new files for master forum for example, then they will be copied/linked over to other forums);

Cache generally exists in order to make the performance and loading times better, so I admit that I am not sure how would this affect the performance, to be honest. As for running this automatically, this is already done during extension/Flarum updates, but otherwise you have to run it manually. This is because running all these tasks drains the server resources, so if it would be ran frequently, it would actually slow down forums

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