Growing user base : Page 2 - The Arsenal discussion forum and community: One More in the Tolly

Growing user base

Burnwinter

Pepe LeFrits Ok, bots are now signing up and flarum amazingly doesn't have any out of the box functionality to stop them. Who wants to setup Discourse?

Looks like this would mostly fix it if anyone (meaning @Pepe LeFrits …) feels like cPanel-ing / PHP composer-ing the fix in place and making sure it doesn't affect the current crew.

(I think with this in place the spam sign-ups would get blocked when they first tried to post a Temu coupon post, let alone start a Temu coupon thread.)

Pepe LeFrits

I'll try that later. I installed an anti spam extension the other day but if made no difference.

Pepe LeFrits

Ok, I've installed that and tested it. It looks like it'll save you guys the eyesore, but the mods will have to continue to delete the posts as they appear so it's not entirely a satisfactory solution.

Burnwinter

Good start, hope it works.

QuincyAbeyie

Not sure if non-users are even checking out this website, but would it be possible to change the preview to being the latest post instead the latest unseen post?

For first-time lurkers the forum might look very inactive if they see the Mertesacker injury post, even if it does say 2 days ago.

Big Willie

QuincyAbeyie that's only for the linned posts by the way. I think I mentioned it before, asking why the injury thread is at the top even though it was last updated well before the most recent posts.

The rest of the threads show in the preview the latest post even though it takes you to the start when you open it for the first time. Pinned posts show a preview of the first unread post rather than the latest, and when clicking through does the same as normal threads and jumps you to the first unseen posts.

I think the easiest fix would be to keep only the welcome newbies thread as the only pinned thread with BW's opening post visible to all who join. Everything else can be just notlrmal threads.

« Previous Page