vbadvaced offline?

[AdrianH]

Originally Posted by Tigga

Thank you to those who let us know about the issue, and my apologies to those who were blocked. As BirdOPrey guessed, I did install ZB Block last week in an attempt to fight spammers. Since it's obviously blocking at least a few people that are not spammers, I've disabled the system so nobody should have any issues accessing the site now.



What would you suggest to stop spammers? We've tried many things over the last few years and none have worked very well. We still use vBstopforumspam along with a few custom tricks such as hidden inputs and blocking registration from the same IPs and e-mail from previously banned members. That takes care of a good bit of spam, but still quite a bit slips through.

Eric's bad behaviour mod works well for many https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=261498

[New Joe]

Back working now, thanks.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Tigga

What would you suggest to stop spammers? We've tried many things over the last few years and none have worked very well. We still use vBstopforumspam along with a few custom tricks such as hidden inputs and blocking registration from the same IPs and e-mail from previously banned members. That takes care of a good bit of spam, but still quite a bit slips through.

I've an idea for something very-very simple, but had no time yet to do it. It's just an addition check. 95% of the spam message are long one. eg more than 500 characters. So I'm planing to place in auto-moderation xxx new posts which they are more than xxx characters long.

Chris

[Mariner1]

Sounds like that would be very useful Chris

Btw back in vbadvanced now,thanks.Just waiting for my ticket reply now

[New Joe]

Sounds good Chris, I will keep my eye out for it coming out.

[Christos Teriakis]

Thank you. I started a thread to collect ideas for more check:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=282236

[Peter Walker]

When I try to reach vbadvanced.com, I always get a the following message:

Database Error Database error
The database has encountered a problem.
Please try the following:
Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
Open the www.vbadvanced.com home page, then try to open another page.
Click the Back button to try another link.
The www.vbadvanced.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

It has been like this for some time. Is it just me, or is this a general thing. Is vbAdvanced still in business?

Regards

Peter

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Peter Walker

When I try to reach vbadvanced.com, I always get a the following message:



It has been like this for some time. Is it just me, or is this a general thing. Is vbAdvanced still in business?

Regards

Peter

Yes and No... basically its come and gone a few times now, for reference:
https://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=314400
https://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=321409

The latter page link has more info, it was down for a while then came back online and has been for some time now and this is only recent that I've heard of it being offline from your reply.

[Peter Walker]

Thanks and here is an archive of the message about vbadvanced EOF.

--------------- Added [DATE]1504035482[/DATE] at [TIME]1504035482[/TIME] ---------------

For what its worth, I have found a great substitute for the Links directory. I am currently setting this up to work in parallel with my vb5 Connect forum.

https://www.c97.net/kemana-the-ultim...ory-script.php

You can see the directory I have made from it here.
https://www.rifeshop.com/links

[Stingray27]

Originally Posted by Peter Walker

Is vbAdvanced still in business?

I dont think so, they announced the EOL for their products a few years ago now.