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(Message started by: a900one on Oct 15^th, 2013, 4:59pm)

Title: number of views
Post by a900one on Oct 15^th, 2013, 4:59pm

Is it me or is the number of views up the creek, or we have a lot more people looking on here now :D :D

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Snoopy on Oct 16^th, 2013, 8:28am

We do seem to have a lot of active members ATM as well as others.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Daniel on Oct 16^th, 2013, 11:22am

Well that can only be good news ;D I have noticed alot of low milage scopios poping up for sale now too. Maybe the last looked after examples left. Definitely becoming more desirable i think :)

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Victor on Oct 16^th, 2013, 3:17pm

I agree with you Daniel, they are becoming rarer by the day. The banger racers are using them all the time now
for 'unlimited cc' meetings. I saw at least 65 raced at Ipswich Stadium last Saturday. Paul.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by a900one on Oct 16^th, 2013, 6:00pm

To see what I mean look at the number of views for this post, this morning it was maybe a couple of hundred, now its 3135 :o.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 16^th, 2013, 6:24pm

Must be something wrong, no way does a one day old topic get > 3,000 views just like that. Maybe someone should check the site's bandwidth traffic and where it's coming from, it smacks of a cyber attack. (?)

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 16^th, 2013, 6:29pm

Just had a quick look around, all topics everywhere are getting massive hits, even very old ones. Something's definitely wrong somewhere.....

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Jeff on Oct 16^th, 2013, 9:29pm

I reckon the word's out I'm selling mine...

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 25^th, 2013, 11:39am

Nobody going to do anything about this then? You're going to wait until the server crashes.....

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 25^th, 2013, 11:42am

Actually they don't seem to have increased much since last time, so this 'attack' seems to be over but there will likely be more later. Many forums have been 'bombed' over the last year or so, invariably requiring security upgrades.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by a900one on Oct 25^th, 2013, 10:23pm

Yesterday my post about a cheap car on ebay had over 2000 views in just over one hour ???. It was later moved down to over 200. The running balance, top right, says -£40 but is in green and other things are not right. At the moment I am on here most days so perhaps thats why I tend to notice. If its an attack I think its still going on.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 26^th, 2013, 4:40pm

Of course another possibility is the software or the database has a bug and needs repairing. Database checks and fixes should be possible with admin tools. I'm just guessing ... e.g. post recount, etc.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Scorpio on Oct 26^th, 2013, 6:37pm

More than likely, it's YaBB/phpbb Spider/bots. They usually increase viewing hits. Admin could replace code to prevent this from occurring.

Open: viewtopic.php

Find:
CODE: SELECT ALL
if (isset($user->data['session_page']) && strpos($user->data['session_page'], '&t=' . $topic_id) === false)

Replace with:
CODE: SELECT ALL
if (isset($user->data['session_page']) && strpos($user->data['session_page'], '&t=' . $topic_id) === false && !$user->data['is_bot'])

Adam

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Scorpio on Oct 26^th, 2013, 6:42pm

This may shine further light to ongoing issues.
http://www.yabbforum.com/community/
https://www.phpbb.com/community/index.php

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 28^th, 2013, 11:11am

Sorry those did not come with topic links, any idea what to search for?

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Mike H on Oct 28^th, 2013, 11:18am

on 10/26/13 at 18:37:16, Scorpio wrote:

More than likely, it's YaBB/phpbb Spider/bots.

What I found on my site it was blasted Chinese search engine bots also forums where somebody has posted a copy of an entire web page plus all the photos on it! Bandwidth was getting silly numbers per month and I do have a max. limit imposed on me. Solution was to block them in the .htaccess file by denying access to certain ranges of IP addresses. These include Russia and much of East Europe and the Far East.

Title: Re: number of views
Post by Scorpio on Oct 28^th, 2013, 3:13pm

Sorry it's Antispam. See here http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?board=antispam