Forum Activity for @brian

minor bug report

Using Jamroom

Like I posted above, I am not able to replicate your issue on any site. I have personally updated multiple sites to use the latest Redis module and do not see your issue. I assume you have enabled bot sessions?

It's not clear what you mean by "when i try reset keys from server browser (thinking that might reset sessions and get it to show right) i get an error". What does that mean? What are you clicking? What error do you get?

minor bug report

Using Jamroom


Yep - click on "View Changelog": https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/406/redis-cache

minor bug report

Using Jamroom

The User Accounts 2.3.0 module update changed how "bot sessions" are handled - by default bots no longer create sessions, since there's really no reason to waste system resources on bots. If you really want to see what bots are online, then you need to go into ACP -> Users -> Users -> "sessions" tab and check the "Enable Bot Sessions" option and save. That will re-enable sessions for bots.

This was changed because we've been seeing an increase in how "aggresive" bots are - some are hitting our JR hosting sites dozens of times a second, and they are also tweaking their agent strings and such that thousands of NEW sessions were being created pretty quickly. One site on our network had over 500,000 bot sessions in their session table which was making all session access take about 10 times as long as normal.

So turn it on if you want - I'd recommend leaving it off unless for some reason you really want to see the bots.

Seo Audit Says "Server should use compression (e.g., gzip)" ?

Using Jamroom

Yep I hear you - I've got the work needed on my todo list, but it's kind of "big job" so it will likely be a Core 6.2 or 6.3 feature.

Spam Spam Spam Spam!

Using Jamroom

Just an update that a couple weeks ago I finally got around to updating the Spam Blocker module so it's much easier for other modules to integrate into it's spam checking features. Since the profile bio is such a common target for spammers we'll get the profile module updated to check that field. This is something that was on my list for a very long time and it finally got done
updated by @brian: 02/26/18 07:07:11AM

Spam Spam Spam Spam!

Using Jamroom

Anytime you allow users to add content your site that they are 100% in control of (say the Profile Bio) then you're going to get spammers. Make sure you're using the Spam Blocker module with "new user probation" enabled.

minor bug report

Using Jamroom

I can't replicate this here. When it comes to online users (list and counts) there is no difference between a master admin and a regular user:

1) users are any session with a user_id > 0
2) visitors are any session where user_id = 0
3) bots are any session where the user_name begins with "bot:"

It's all based on user_id - not whether a user is a master admin, admin or regular user.

Seo Audit Says "Server should use compression (e.g., gzip)" ?

Using Jamroom

Right now everything coming out of your JR site is gzipped except HTML. The reason the HTML is not gzipped is that when gzip compression is enabled the process cannot be "disconnected" from the client after it has sent it's data. Jamroom has to be able to disconnect from the client so the process can become a worker process to process queue entries.

This is something I've know about for a long time and will eventually workout a different method for spinning up worker processes, but that's a very big job that has not been started on yet.

Note that your speed should be pretty fast regardless of the gzipping of HTML however, since everything else (that is usually a lot bigger such as Javascript and CSS) is gzipped.

audio import

Using Jamroom

You can't - your Jamroom sites lives out on a server - that server does NOT have access to your local hard drive. You will need to upload the audio to the audio_files directory.

minor bug report

Using Jamroom


Master admins would only be included in users - not visitors - and I don't see any issue with it here. Master admins are being included in the online user count.