News Update to the forum/domain

[sysop]

You've obviously noticed that I moved the forum from the main domain address to the sub-folder /talk.  I did this in the hopes of reducing the amount of spam and bot activity that's been hitting the site recently.  From first glance, the strategy has seemed to have worked... at least until "they" find us again.

Apart from the move, everything else should have stayed the same, but this was a task that was all new to me.  So, if you notice something not where it should be, let me know in a PM or by posting below.

Except for the bot and spam activity, the forum has been very quiet.... so there's a chance that nobody in the group will notice the move anyway.  

[NM156]

Now the bots are going to merge with AI to pretend they're active users.
But then they'll be confused when the talk sub folder is removed again
Very much liking the Christmas banner BTW !

[LivingLaVidaRetro]

I'm glad to see this actually.  It was getting tired of seeing "current users" as Facebook, Google, etc.  A better technique is to randomly change the extension every day.  I recommend using SHA256:

64forum.com/4355a46b19d348dc2f57c046f8ef63d4538ebb936000f3c9ee954a27460dd865
64forum.com/53c234e5e8472b6ac51c1ae1cab3fe06fad053beb8ebfd8977b010655bfdd3c3
64forum.com/1121cfccd5913f0a63fec40a6ffd44ea64f9dc135c66634ba001d10bcf4302a2
64forum.com/7de1555df0c2700329e815b93b32c571c3ea54dc967b89e81ab73b9972b72d1d
64forum.com/f0b5c2c2211c8d67ed15e75e656c7862d086e9245420892a7de62cd9ec582a06

The SHA256 hash is simply the hash of the name of the game we have in a new forum, "Game of the Day".  If everyone keeps quiet about the technique, we should be safer than Tor.  

--LLVR

[sysop]

Interesting idea. And yes, I rather like the idea of not having the forum sitting at point-blank range of the bots and crawlers. We may not rank as high on Google or Bing, but I'm perfectly fine with that.

[NM156]

Until now it doesn't make a difference we're still at third or second place on the search engines.

[Baracuda]

Until now it doesn't make a difference we're still at third or second place on the search engines.

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Hope these will soon be fixed..