Admin news no longer appearing, newsproxy.php returning nonsense.

[thomasv]

GZIP HTML Output was indeed turned on but turning it off has no effect on the newsproxy.php output. It even has no effect on my forum page headers, which include "Content-Encoding: gzip" regardless...

[thomasv]

Hi, I'm on vBulletin 3.8.6 Patch Level 1, I haven't upgraded yet because I never saw the announcement in my admin news section...

This is what my newsproxy.php is returning:

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[thomasv]

ok, well this worked except not for the archive. Any idea how to edit the archive templates?...

[thomasv]

Oh ok, thanks. Next question then:

What's the best way to hide usernames on posts by deleted users?

How about editing the postbit template to say: <if condition="$post[userid]">$post[musername]<else...

[thomasv]

Hi,

All posts that were written by deleted users are no longer marked purely as guest but [username] with guest as the usertitle.

Normally when I delete someone their username...

[thomasv]

That's what I assumed, but no, Safari on Vista Ultimate on PC!...

[thomasv]

Hi, a user of mine has reported the following bug:

I can't replicate this, but a couple of other users have also seen this.

I'm running 3.8.4 PL 1. Thanks....

[thomasv]

Works a treat! I rarely get a help request these days.

If anyone wants to see, I'll post my FAQ up here....

[thomasv]

OK, I'll have a go at doing that and let you know how it goes.

Thanks....

[thomasv]

Hi everyone,

I get a lot of emails via the contact form that ask for forgotten passwords, how to post a question, changed of email address etc etc etc. I have a lot of other work to do...

[thomasv]

Hi all, just wondering the feasibility of this idea:

We are creating a new site which needs a login system. I want my current forum users to be able to use their login details on my new...

[thomasv]

&quot;Its Faaascinating Captain&quot;

You can actually watch a fricken screen cast of botmaster at work:

http://www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm
(if that stops...

[thomasv]

Thanks for that link, I think it will be useful in stopping new spammers registering. Incidentally the way that spammers can get past any image verification is, to have their _own_ website and get _their_...

[thomasv]

The other day I discovered that we have between 150 to 300 or more lurking spammers that have registered but not yet posted, some not even activating their email address yet.

Here is some...