PhpBB3 BBCodes

ITs a complicated theme. You need to ask the author.
IMHO the icons look much better in that theme than the ones I use here

Just my two cents on the edit core files thing most of us have going

You have seen my snippets?
When posted I can always find them again if they get lost in an update.
Its damn good documentation to have if needed.

Finally got home and fixed the chinese Alibaba attack which forced our server on the knee.

I think it would be a good idea for us to share the solutions here.
So here you go: The IP Ban Thread

I have noticed for some time that we had a lot of Alibaba Scrabers, I think its for their AI, for the ...

@flumsi is that the one from Hifikabin/perishablepress?
If so, that wasnt enough here. Not for the Alibaba AI scrabers

Its does something good, but I dont think it can handle the scrabers.
Keep an eye on the load and online list.
If you get hit by users with IP 47.x you are in trouble

This is the htaccess for the ban I did:
# Goodbye alibaba
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from 47.74.0.0/15
Deny from 47.76.0.0/14
Deny from 47.80.0.0/13
Deny from 47.235.0.0/16
Deny from 47.236.0.0/14
Deny from 47.240.0.0/14
Deny from 47.244.0.0/15
Deny from 47.246.0.0/16
Allow from all


Test it and see ...

Settings are here: https://phpbb3bbcodes.com/ucp.php?i=ucp_notifications&mode=notification_options


Not to split hairs but a note appears in the list if I click on "notifications" but the bell doesn't turn red (indicating a new notification) for topic replies. I've only seen it happen for a DM ...

pxdetroit wrote: 20 May 2025, 14:55 Do you consider the {b}old (and etc) buttons to be bbcode? As I recall that's where the bbcodes showed up.

Yes, thats both the default and custom bbcodes.
All of them are bbcodes

Yes, I have multiple domains and logs for each domain.
I believe you get what you pay for. So you need to think about how much you want to pay.

The best thing to do is check with another style, and/or disable extensions one by one until you find the problem