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Refresh Page Error / China, Singapore and Hong Kong Forum Member
s
By: TaoGem Date: April 10, 2025, 10:35 pm
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Not sure if it makes a difference that the members having a
problem are out of country (China). When trying to access the
forum they are getting a "Can't reach this page" error and asked
to refresh. Despite refreshing the page several times, the error
message persists.
I am also occasionally experiencing the same, but the error page
only lasts a couple of seconds, refreshes on it's own and then
all is good.
HTML https://snuffbottle.smfforfree.com/
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Re: Refresh Page Error
By: CreateAForum Date: April 10, 2025, 10:38 pm
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The following countries are blocked due to bad bots:
China
Hong Kong
Singapore
Russia
North Korea
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Re: Refresh Page Error
By: TaoGem Date: April 11, 2025, 1:02 am
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[quote author=CreateAForum link=topic=6971.msg26309#msg26309
date=1744342727]
The following countries are blocked due to bad bots:
China
Hong Kong
Singapore
Russia
North Korea
[/quote]
This must have happened recently as the members living in China,
Hong Kong and Singapore have not had this problem until
recently.
So, these members will no longer be able to participate on the
forum?
Do you have any alternative approaches or methods available for
detecting and blocking bad bots? A fix??
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Re: Refresh Page Error
By: CreateAForum Date: April 11, 2025, 7:47 am
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I would say in the last month or so.
I would suggest a VPN for them.
No all other blocking methods failed us unfortunately we were
blocking 10's of thousands of ips and the forums would become
unusable due to bad bots.
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Re: Refresh Page Error
By: TaoGem Date: April 11, 2025, 8:17 am
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[quote author=CreateAForum link=topic=6971.msg26311#msg26311
date=1744375660]
I would say in the last month or so.
I would suggest a VPN for them.
No all other blocking methods failed us unfortunately we were
blocking 10's of thousands of ips and the forums would become
unusable due to bad bots.
[/quote]
What is VPN so I can pass that along to the current members I am
losing?
Not sure how to let future potential members from these regions
know about it since they cannot even view either forum to
register for membership. I will have to figure some creative way
around that. :-\
This is just so very disappointing, as both my forums are about
Chinese antiques that attract people from China, Hong Kong and
Singapore. Those two countries combined with Hong Kong is about
20% of the world population that after about 15 years of having
one of two forums up and running will lose current members and
will also miss out on future ones.
I have no doubt you have done what you can, but picture me down
on both knees, yes, begging for a solution ;D
Not just for me but for everyone else, that depending on the
subject matter and content of their forums are in the same boat.
This is a huge loss.
As always, I really do appreciate everything you do for all of
us admins. :)
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