[huskermax]

Originally Posted by McCarron

So doing a search on this thread seems that many people are having this problem of guests getting stuck in the chatbox I currently have been seeing numbers of around 2000 guests online at a time, and all were reading the chatbox or the chatbox archive.

Any way to fix this bug, it's clearly a problem for those of us who allow guests to read the chatbox. I could disable it but I find it helps people want to join if they can read the conversation and not take part in it.

Also it always says "and 1 guests" in the online section. Is this a bug, as it never says anything more than 1 and clearly I got like 2000 guests stuck in here at the moment.

Originally Posted by Videx

Finally happened to us too a couple months back. So I disabled Guest access. However, a month later I found some 100X normal Guests - all from different places - all doing different things. Checking my referrers in cpanel led to one site that was using an ISP in South Korea. Since my forum is local, I just used cpanel to ban that entire block. I wont know for another month or two if that really solved the problem.

I guess what I'm saying is it isn't a chatbox issue. It may just be that when all these bots descend on a forum, they're getting caught in the chatbox.

How do you allow guests to use the chatbox? I can't, they can view it but not post anything. When I am logged out or a guest the button to post and the characters allowed # are missing. When I try and type something or hit enter I get errors in firebug.

vsacb_submitbutton is null
http://www.huskermax.com/vbbs/misc.php?do=cchatbox
Line 480

VSacb_getUsers();
473
474 }
475 else
476 {
477 VSacb_nowLogged = false;
478 vsacb_actbutton.src="images/statusicon/user-offline.png";
479 vsacb_inputfield.disabled = true;
480 vsacb_submitbutton.disabled = true;
481 vsacb_selsize.disabled = true;
482 fetch_object('vsacb_infoarea').innerHTML = 'Not logged in (<a href="javascript:VSacb_LogInOut();">Log-In</a>)';
483 VSacb_nowPosting = true;

See logged out and logged in attachment. For what I see. I have it set up in admin to allow guests.

We do not use this chat as a 24/7 thing. So it is important that I can get this working.