Site performance, Server errors, outages and tunings

[Like Ra]

Deleted ~2500 users with 0 posts, who were not active for longer than 4.5 years, or who were active for less than a day.
That's to save resources, improve security, performance, and to free up user names.

Deleted ~2500 users with 0 posts, who were not active for longer than 4.5 years, or who were active for less than a day.
That's to save resources, improve security, performance, and to free up user names.

How many active members are there?

[Like Ra]

How many active members are there?

Define active 😊
Today? See: https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/online...tion=today

How many active members are there?

Define active 😊
Today? See: https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/online...tion=today

A very good point - what DO I mean by active?  🤔 

OK, let's have a go at some definitions: 

Contributing Member
Someone who visits the site, on average, at least once every 7 days (or 168hrs if that's easier)
Has contributed to the Forum (created or posted on a thread) in the last 6 months
Given 'Thanks' to at least 10 posts in the last 3 months


Active Member
Someone who visits the site, on average, at least once every 7 days (or 168hrs if that's easier) 
Has previously contributed to the Forum (created or posted on a thread) but not in the last 6 months
Given 'Thanks' to at least 10 posts 

Appreciative Member
Someone who visits the site, on average, at least once every 14 days (or 336hrs if that's easier) 
Has never contributed to the Forum (created or posted on a thread)
Given 'Thanks' to posts 

Passive Member
Someone who visits the site, on average, at least once every 14 days (or 336hrs if that's easier) 
Has never contributed to the Forum (created or posted on a thread)
Has never given 'Thanks' to posts 
Has spent longer than 1hour online, but is not identified as a 'Bot'

Member
Everyone else, until they are deleted


MJ

[Like Ra]

Some of this stuff is available here: https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/stats.php
Some here: https://www.likera.com/forum/mybb/Thread...statistics
For the rest, I need to invent some scripting/SQL queries.

I just found out that when you type your username into google, it pops up to every website you registered with that username. It seems like a massive privacy and/or security issue.

[Like Ra]

I just found out that when you type your username into google, it pops up to every website you registered with that username.

Only if you posted with this nickname. This is logical, because Google searches for the text. And your nickname is that text. So, here you are! 😉 Works as intended!

I just found out that when you type your username into google, it pops up to every website you registered with that username. It seems like a massive privacy and/or security issue.

Pretty much part of the Prime Directive of Google, Amazon, advertisers, any social media site, tracking sites, your internet provider, or even your browser, apps and add-ons etc..... collect and gather information about people and link the data together, to be sold, used to sell you something etc... 

You can mitigate the search engine username results by using different usernames at different sites as Like Ra suggests (e.g. use a common name or noun sue/john/chair/tree or the name of a rock/movie star.. Search results will get buried in the crowd) ... but that is just the tip of the iceberg so to speak...

You can only at best mitigate it a bit...  
https://www.eff.org/
is a good start to learn if you are interested.

You can check your current browser here:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Three browsers, same PC, no external proxy or VPN:
Brave: strong protection against Web tracking & randomized fingerprint
Firefox: strong protection against Web tracking & **unique** fingerprint
Safari: some protection against Web tracking, but it has some gaps & **unique** fingerprint [so much for the newest Apple self praising browser privacy Adverts 😉 ]

Like Ra could still pick my visits out of the web logs whether I was logged in or not if he wanted to ..... protection is a relative term...

[Like Ra]

New kernel. Rebooted.

[Like Ra]

New kernel, new MySQL, new WP, new themes. Rebooting...