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2026.06.03

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I did quite a bit of testing over the last couple of days.
I set up a test phpBB on XAMPP and enabled the sodium PHP extension, so that I could test out AnubisBB, which is an anti-DDoS extension for the SFXB Forum.

After the tests there were nice and successful, I've applied the extension to the SFXB Forum.
The number of bots went from about 700/800 down to zero.
The original number of bots would've been much higher if not for a huge .htaccess file that was blocking entire provider networks and countries.

Anyone that's not logged into the forum already will see a yellow screen for a few seconds with a little anime character, where it runs some calculations in javascript and returns the results to the server to filter out "headless browsers", before they get forwarded onto the forum.
The solution needs javascript enabled to work, but this way, the forum will stay up reliably, and not be writing GBs of entries into the database sessions table and the server logs.

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