Forum Moves To New Software Starting Wednesday 2/12/20

[JKalchik]

How did Comcast know your friend was running a server that hosted a forum?

This is actually far easier than most people realize. Most home Internet connects list running any externally visible servers as a violation of terms of service. Any open listening port are a dead giveway. What may be more important is the amount of traffic that is being generated, and the direction of connection initiation.

In short.... your ISP will know.

 

[Chris Allingham]

How did Comcast know your friend was running a server that hosted a forum?

I'm not sure they knew it was a forum, I think it was simply we were consuming too much bandwidth for a home internet connection and that's what caught their attention.

 

[Arun L.]

Do you have any suggestions as to how I can get the whole scorpion to fit in that circle in my avatar? The image I upload was greater than the minimum suggested 400x400 size.

 

[JKalchik]

I'm not sure they knew it was a forum, I think it was simply we were consuming too much bandwidth for a home internet connection and that's what caught their attention.

I thought that's what you said..... regardless, when I was on Comcast outside of Chicago, the terms of service were pretty clear, no servers. Thus far, Comcast, Frontier, Mediacom and HBC (all of my broadband providers,) have had this clause in place Your ISP doesn't even need to do deep packet inspection, just watching for connection requests inbound to their customers will tell them that.

 

[Lynn Dollar]

Just wanna say how much I'm enjoying this new forum software, of the sites I visit on the nets, this is the best forum software.

 

[Arun L.]

@Chris Allingham, were you able to still keep the same username registration requirements? How was that process of setting those new requirements on XenForo?

 

[Karl Quist]

Just wanna say how much I'm enjoying this new forum software, of the sites I visit on the nets, this is the best forum software.

I absolutely agree. This forum is WAY easier to use than others I frequent.

 

[Chris Allingham]

@Chris Allingham, were you able to still keep the same username registration requirements? How was that process of setting those new requirements on XenForo?

Yes, I was able to keep the same registration requirements. It was easy to configure in the Xenforo control panel.

 

[Teddy J.]

Nice upgrade, Chris.

 

[Bruce]

Chris, thanks for the transfer to this new forum software. After almost two months, I would give it a 5/5 stars.
Thanks,
Bruce

 

[Joan]

bumping, rather look at this thread than you know what.