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I've viewed earlier discussions on this and it seems:

• No changes have been made in this area of the code since version 3
• The time limit is 1 hour
• It might have something to do with caching

First...

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I know this is a year old but I am also having misbehaving bot problems.

Is there a way to limit the time before another page can be requested? A bit like the search time limit for flood-prevention?...

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Is there likely to be a patch for this soon (self-hosted)?

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Wayne Luke Didn't there used to be? I was looking for this just now...

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The detail in your response is most welcome. I actually guessed it was a bit like that. My question was really seeking to know what is the threshold for something to be accepted as a feature that should...

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I've voted - how many votes does it need to be accepted?

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Sorry for any confusion; I was thinking of just providing a Google search box that was set up to only search the forum by default. I have seen something like this elsewhere. It has pros and cons - the...

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I was afraid of that.

Providing a Google search box might be attractive in many respects....

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I looked at mode_evasive but the hosting admins don't recommend it and it's apparently no longer being developed....

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Yes, I understand that but I believe the bots were using garbage terms to overload the text search engine. I have disabled guest searching for now to see if it makes a difference - I will report bac...

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I understand my server uses SSD storage.

I find the standard search a little limited in flexibility. If Sphinx is running here I will see if it's any different....

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What's the chance of this being extended to the standard version? I think the idea of a dedicated mobile client app is very unattractive these days. Other forums I use with a mobile (and desktop) browser...

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I recently upgraded one of my forums from 5.5.5 to 5.5.6 and this was after installing CloudFlare. Apart from a lot of warnings about content that was not recognised (mainly additional smilies) the upgrade...

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I've given up on open registration and now moderate all new members before they can post. That still means they can register with abusive names that can still be viewed until the spam registration is...

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Now that I have installed CloudFlare I am noticing some interesting log data. Abusive traffic to the forum appears to include doing random searches (even though search for guests is captcha limited)....

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Does implementing Sphinx search make a significant difference? I have moderately large forums with posts spanning quite a few years.

What are the pros and cons?

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Not sure I understand this?

I've also implemented CloudFlare on all my sites as I'm also seeing server attacks.

Real user's IP addresses are still visible.

What...

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I think this is a long shot but some of my members use the likes system for voting in a monthly photo competition. You post your entries during the month and then during the first couple of weeks following...

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My own admin account doesn't have any problems but by other Admins do.

For example, if a member deletes a message all Admins can reveal the deleted message but if they try to go into 'manage'...

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Is Firebase functionality only for the Mobile suite version of vBulletin or can I implement it for standard vBulletin 5 Connect?