CloudFlare

supersonic · Oct 16, 2014

I just activated this mainly because it was free, so I wanted to see what would happen... let me know if it's annoying and I can disable it.

Before you activate CloudFlare, we recommend that you make an announcement to your community. Some topics to include:

• You're going to be trying a service called CloudFlare to protect and speed up your forums, which should improve page loading times and sharply reduce the number of active spammers.

• Advise your members that they may get a challenge page before they are granted access to the site. Let them know that they can still access the forum by passing the captcha, and that they can send you a message through the challenge page to request whitelisting of their IP address. Only a small number of your forum members will see the challenge page, but it is always useful to let them know what to expect. (On a side note, the intermittent page is used to stop automated bots from accesing your site).

• Let the community members know that the challenge page will appear if there are indications that their machine is infected with a computer virus or malware. The best thing to do is to run an anti-virus scan on their machine as a precaution.

• Let your members know that sometimes there are false positives with the data, but it is most common when the visitor is coming from a shared network like an office, college network or coffee shop. What this means is that although their computer isn't infected, someone else on the same network does have an issue. Your community member should run an anti-virus scan as a precaution. If there is no virus or malware, then they can enter the CAPTCHA to access the forum. The data set will refine over time.
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alterego · Oct 16, 2014

It seems to break old cached links. I had a bookmark for the main page and got a CloudFlare error message this AM.

Grim · Oct 16, 2014

I did have a problem with Tapatalk earlier but you were probably installing the plug-in at the time as it is fine now.

No problems to report otherwise.

chi · Oct 16, 2014

Everything seems fine via Tapatalk

supersonic · Oct 16, 2014

I shut this off... it seems their servers are pretty bad. I was hitting that same error alterego mentioned.

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