I’m not aware of re-ordering forums any other way than using the forum administration up/down buttons for 3.3.x but surely it’s not that much of a major task to do it one by one? Once it’s done you don’t have to do it ever again? By other way, there are a mod to show the forums in aphabetical order?...
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.