Recent Post Listing Feature "Broken"

Casey · January 24, 2022, 08:50:31 PM

Yngvar, I think I've fixed the youtube links - can you confirm they are OK now?

boosted · January 25, 2022, 09:22:49 AM

Its stopped now it was notifications for the most recent post im subscribed too.

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Jamie R · January 25, 2022, 01:06:53 PM

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Casey · January 25, 2022, 03:30:48 PM

Looks like you have the answer there Jamie

Eccentric shaft · January 25, 2022, 06:40:06 PM

Ok. testing, testing. This is one of the vids that failed earlier:

AND IT WORKS! Thanks, Malcolm!

Casey · February 01, 2022, 11:56:15 AM

An update.

On advice from the (very helpful,)SMF support forum, I did some checks to see who/what was accessing our forum and discovered we were being visited by huge numbers of very persistent "crawler bots".

It appears as though their activity was so intense, they were causing the CPU hosting our site to hit 100% routinely as they searched through our site, indexing stuff to add to various search engines.

I have now installed an updated robots.txt file which lists 100's of undesirable crawler bots and requests they do not index our forum. Not all crawlers obey that request, but 99% seem to have done so and the spikes have now disappeared over the past 4 days or so.

I can only speculate that the loss of the "recents" and Tapatalk functions was caused by some file corruption caused by these persistent 100% CPU spikes which started on 19 January.

It's good in some ways though, as it has forced me to update the forum software to the very latest release AND to implement a robust defense against the bots.

I think all should now be OK, but please continue to report anything untoward in this topic, should you spot anything.

You can see that the top graph below, showing CPU %age over the past 5 days, that CPU usage has settled down to the low level I would expect.

boosted · February 01, 2022, 08:21:15 PM

Well done Casey. All gobbledegoop to me but top marks all round

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Casey · July 18, 2022, 12:57:01 PM

Darn, this feature has broken again!

Investigating.............

boosted · July 18, 2022, 05:09:58 PM

Im getting multiple repeat email notifications of threads Casey.
New reply to topic your following 1s but not the case.

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Casey · July 18, 2022, 08:47:35 PM

See related topic: http://mazdarotaryclub.com/forum/index.php?topic=85357.0