ESP32.com forum: bugs, issues, requests?

[Sprite]

@Sprite Firefox, but is ok now

Ok, probably a cache issue then.

[chegewara]

I am getting logout too often, like after 2-3 minutes or after reading few posts.
I have public static IP at home if that changes anything.

[Sprite]

I am getting logout too often, like after 2-3 minutes or after reading few posts.
I have public static IP at home if that changes anything.

I tweaked the settings a bit; can you try removing any cookies for esp32.com and *.esp32.com in your browser and see if it re-occurs?

[rudi ;-)]

@rudi Should be fixed now.

@Sprite i tried just in time and upload the error for you ( github )
hope this helps jeroen.

best wishes

[Sprite]

Thanks, turns out that was a new, different issue. Should be fixed now.

[chegewara]

Forum is really fast, but for how long?
Bots are really persistent here:

[Sprite]

Yep, those are specifically the bots we allow in because they behave properly and have a proper user agent. If they have a proper user agent, phpbb can shove them all in the same session (because they're not an actual user and don't care about 'last seen' topics and cruft like that) and that makes loading pages for them lighter by an order of magnitude. Those bots are good: they don't load up the forum and we want people to be able to find answers here via the search engines or whatever they feed their info into. Also, they're recognizable by their user agent: if one poses a problem, we kick them off the allowlist and they're gone.

The other side are bad bots. They spoof normal browser user agents, they come from multiple domestic IPs, they don't propagate cookies (so phpbb needs to make a new session for each access) and they generally have no rate limit, hammering the forum to death. Those are a big issue, and those need to be kept out.

[boarchuz]

The new anti-bot measures seem to be messing up the RSS feed.

I'm guessing my RSS client (Aggregator on Android) is hitting the "stupid bots" check, and failing on invalid XML. It seems to occur if I haven't visited the forum for a few days or perhaps it's whenever I get a new IP, and resolves immediately when I manually open the forum in my browser and pass the bot check (after realising the ESP32.com feed has been suspiciously quiet for a long time).

Any fix or is this necessary to prevent them abusing that resource too?

[Sprite]

The new anti-bot measures seem to be messing up the RSS feed.

I'm guessing my RSS client (Aggregator on Android) is hitting the "stupid bots" check, and failing on invalid XML. It seems to occur if I haven't visited the forum for a few days or perhaps it's whenever I get a new IP, and resolves immediately when I manually open the forum in my browser and pass the bot check (after realising the ESP32.com feed has been suspiciously quiet for a long time).

Any fix or is this necessary to prevent them abusing that resource too?

Good point, I can check if I can exclude the RSS feeds from the thing and see how much that impacts. I'll put it on the ToDo-list.

[limpens]

Maybe I am looking in the wrong direction, but I can't find a setting to change the forum theme to a dark mode.

Is this hidden anyware? Or doesn't the forum support changing the colors?

Regards, Eric.