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Flash has been EOL since 2017 so I think you’re safe there.

RubiconCSL wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:49 amI think the Obscure Registration Code extension is no longer bot proof

Can you mention that to the author in the extensions topic please?

That’s a good question. I wouldn’t have thought bots would be able to search and find the answer.

I knew the answer so it’s probably not a fair test from me.

Can you supply a link to your board so we can see what’s going on please?

Probably /includes/functions.php

See Knowledge Base - phpBB3 and UTF-8 without BOM

Note: I’ve not seen this error for years, I assumed PHP had sorted the BOM issue out but I was obviously wrong.

thecoalman wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:08 pmFor a custom style the best place to ask is in the styles discussion area

Or ProFlat Discussion/Support in this case.

Assuming you havn’t changed anything in phpBB that could cause this maybe AWS has? Have you asked them? Searching I found this which doesn’t mean a whole lot to me but it might to you?

I’ve been using PHP 8.3.6 with phpBB 3.3.10 for some time without issue. But reference this you should be good with 8.2.

After being here for so long (6 years) I would have thought you’d know this but purging the cache in the ACP is the normal way and deleting everything from the /cache folder except for index.html and .htaccess using FTP is the other, which is basically what purging the cache via the ACP does. You sh...

There are a bunch of up to date flat styles here http://phpbbstyles.iansvivarium.com/

have added a couple of questions to my Q&As As has already been said, use only one Q&A, if you have more than one and one gets beaten you won’t know which one it was and you’ll have to change all of them. they are of the type "what colour” Bots know all the colours and will guess them ...

shibbyshibby wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:59 pmAny tips on how to get it installed into my current XAMPP, without having to download an older version with php 5.6 already in it?

You seem to be asking the right questions but in the wrong place. If you search “xampp install different php version” you’ll get your answer.

Reported it to my hosting company but they didn't know much more that I did. I added entries to robots.txt and also used the robots/spiders entries in phpbb as well as blocking some of the common IP ranges that it was showing. But even then I was often seeing 6 or 7 anonymous entries in "Who's...

Has the board been working as it is now ok before this issue started? If so something has changed to cause the problem and if you (speak: admin) has done nothing to cause it then the only other reason can be the host has done something such as changed the PHP version etc, hence interrogating the ser...

Mannix_ wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:17 pmI adjusted the cookies can you check Mick if they are correct?

Good now