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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #165 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:23pm Could a CAPTCHA be used to keep guests out?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #166 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:23pm Flip!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #167 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:24pm I said FLIP!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #168 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:24pm WTF? FLIP!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #169 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:25pm Jesus!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #170 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:25pm Time for modern software!
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #171 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 1:34pm Hmmmm When the copying of whole posts/threads from my fine forum by clowns from the PA here (when it was still, sort of, PA) to paste them in the PA here I hid ALL of my fine forum except the Sand Pit where I left a post describing what I did and why. Wholesale copying stopped and I refloated the public boards.
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Re: Forum speed
Reply #172 - Nov 12^th, 2025 at 2:05pm

Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 12:06pm:

freediver wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 8:14am:

Redmond Neck wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 7:01am:

I cant see the point of turning guests on again freediver, when it makes the furum almost inoperable.

Not much good having search engines see the forum if people cant post easily...

is a pain in the friggin arse!

The forum will die if no-one knows it exists. Hiding it is not a long term solution.

No one is saying to hide it. Keep this forum searchable. Just ban guests from entering the forum because they are dragging it to its knees. It's simple. What don't you get about that????

Advertising revenue is gained from people who click on adverts. Roll Eyes

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Reply #173 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 10:55am

Armchair_Politician wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 12:06pm:

freediver wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 8:14am:

Redmond Neck wrote on Nov 12^th, 2025 at 7:01am:

I cant see the point of turning guests on again freediver, when it makes the furum almost inoperable.

Not much good having search engines see the forum if people cant post easily...

is a pain in the friggin arse!

The forum will die if no-one knows it exists. Hiding it is not a long term solution.

No one is saying to hide it. Keep this forum searchable. Just ban guests from entering the forum because they are dragging it to its knees. It's simple. What don't you get about that????

Disabling guest access hides the forum. It means that search engine bots do not see it, so it doesn't show up on google. It means that all links posted to the forum become broken. It means that real people who want to look at the forum, but are not members, cannot see it.

You can't have one without the other.

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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 23714 ACT Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #174 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 11:46am Well I guess you need to find a solution to the slow loading issue as...... 1. Slow loading is driving us members bonkers to the point of thinking of leaving the forum. 2. Not much use attracting new member who are then faced with 1. above.
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Re: Forum speed
Reply #175 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 11:54am

freediver wrote on Nov 13^th, 2025 at 10:55am:

Disabling guest access hides the forum. It means that search engine bots do not see it, so it doesn't show up on google. It means that all links posted to the forum become broken. It means that real people who want to look at the forum, but are not members, cannot see it.

You can't have one without the other.

QUESTION

Have you considered Cloudflare?

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/bots/what-is-bot-traffic/

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 53257 At my desk.	Re: Forum speed Reply #176 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 12:13pm Yes Bobby, I am looking into it. The main options are: A more expensive hosting package Changing the forum software Cloudflare It is hard to tell which ones would actually fix the problem.
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Re: Forum speed
Reply #177 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 12:38pm

freediver wrote on Nov 13^th, 2025 at 12:13pm:

Yes Bobby, I am looking into it. The main options are:

A more expensive hosting package
Changing the forum software
Cloudflare

It is hard to tell which ones would actually fix the problem.

OK - does this software allow you to install a CAPTCHA to be be used to keep bad guests out?

as Monk said

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #178 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 1:16pm Changing board software would fix many problems, like having to flip pages and would let people post from their mobile phone. Get rid of the sewer so you don’t have two different lots of software. That would get rid of a lot of doxxed info that Booby likes to use.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Forum speed Reply #179 - Nov 13^th, 2025 at 1:17pm I don’t think a captcha for guests would work.
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