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Recent content by Tracy

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    Black Friday 2025

    OVH Black Friday sales are active. I'm thinking about grabbing a SYS-1 system (twice the cores, a little more storage and 1Gbps pipe). It's only $30 a month and no setup fee. I'm currently paying $15 for the KimSufi one I have. I'm having a hard time though justifying it, other than the...
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    Custom thread prefixes

    https://xenforohelp.com/topic/68/fa-icons-with-custom-prefixes It's not really that hard to do. The biggest thing is, especially when you get a list as large as mine, you have to make sure you open/close all the definitions. And yes, that site is well more than a "lets bash the Xenforo...
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    CloudFlare having issues

    Yeah, I think the issue will be what I had commented on here and other sites about the sudden influx of bots that are hiding themselves as browsers and actually coming in from end user ISP devices, and most coming from what are considered 3rd world countries. There has recently been a BIG...
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    Black Friday 2025

    That's why I try to pick the US servers. https://eco.us.ovhcloud.com/ But honestly... the US is getting just about as bad as other countries in what they try to enforce. As for "following their rules".... the point can be made that since my "company" is not based where the server is, then I...
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    CloudFlare having issues

    I think the main issue is if you use the proxy service. That was what was down. If you disable the proxy then it bypasses their infrastructure (other than DNS services) and goes directly to your site. I didn't really worry about it that much as I figured they'd have it back up before I woke up.
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    CloudFlare having issues

    For those on CloudFlare, they have a known issue that they are working on resolving. Many sites that use CloudFlare proxy service are experiencing issues.
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    Black Friday 2025

    Waiting to see what OVH has for their KimSufi and SoYouStart lines this year. I may, if the cost is close to what I'm paying, migrate my site over to a larger server.
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    Should have used plugin?

    Most sites don't. And if the XF mySQL search changes work it would probably suffice for most general discussion sites. Since I've been using ES for years I honestly have not kept up with the mySQL search changes that closely.
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    Custom thread prefixes

    Nope, just good old CSS/LESS and using FA icons. I try to minimize add-on usage as much as possible when it can be done in templating or CSS/LESS.
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    Should have used plugin?

    It is generally targeted for larger forums, but it did do a better search offering. With the alleged "improvements" that Xenforo was supposedly doing to the mySQL search, it may not be as important for smaller sites that used needed it like I did now. I needed better 2/3 letter word searches...
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    Should have used plugin?

    Xon's ElasticSearch Essentials add-on that extends the abilities of the Xenforo ES 1st party ElasticSearch add-on. The EleasticSearch Essentials add-on brings features that should have been included in the paid 1st party add-on offered by Xenforo. And that's probably why the developer named it...
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    Custom thread prefixes

    Most definitely make heavy use of the Xenforo prefix function. It is one of the better solutions to reduce the number of forum nodes that you might have. Just two examples. I also use them in several of the add-ons that I use. This is one from the classifieds add-on I use in one area.
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    Custom 404 pages

    Agreed. And that's one of the reasons I created the custom page I did. I always hated the default XF error page and found it as useless as breasts on a boar hog when it came to helping the end users out to figure out what the issue was. In many ways you can still tell that the UI for Xenforo...
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    Custom 404 pages

    Auto-redirecting, without a notice page is not the best user processing. With a 404 page they at least know that the content they are trying to reach does not exist by the link that they used.
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    Credit System

    I use one on my site. But it's for the users to be able to purchase raffle tickets for physical items that I offer in the raffles. There is nothing on the site other than that they can be used for.
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