You can try robots.txt to stop any AI bots, whether or not they respect it is a different thing. You could also ask your host as they may have something in place for this kind of bot.
Search for Sphinx, that’s what’s used here. Sphinx is selectable in ACP> General> Server configuration> Search settings> Sphinx Fulltext. But, it isn’t that straightforward, it requires some configuration from your end. For more information go to Sphinx . Is your hosting a shared account?
vatreni wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:19 pmI don't want to make the Q&A question so difficult as to be ungoogleable
Thats exactly what it needs to be, ungoogleable, I found the correct answer to your Q&A first hit, if I can so can the bots and that’s where your spam is coming from.
Auto prune will only be triggered when a user enters the forum even if you set it to run daily, if no one enters the forum for 5 months then the forum will not be pruned until someone enters the forum after the 5 months. The user that triggered the auto prune is then added into the Admin log so the ...
You can upgrade it on your desktop machine using a personal web server where you can use whatever version of PHP you want, I think for 3.0 it should be 5.6. See: KB - Installing and Setting Up Your Own Web Server . Once upgraded to 3.3.11 you can transfer it to your domain following KB - Transferrin...