Index hidden if you're not looged in? Why?

[relsoft]

That's a recipe for disaster. :*(

[VonGodric]

I agree with Rel

[xteraco]

hmm, i agree to

[Rattrapmax6]

Yeah, that's creepy....

Who hit "Hide forum from guests" ? Cause new comers are going to think it's gone, or non-exsisting.... Losing new members..... etc.....

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[Sumo Jo]

It's a temporary thing while we figure out why these bots are draining so much bandwidth from the site. The site used 18 gigs of bandwidth in a day the other day and I'm trying to save it so that it doesn't go down again until we make sure they all get blocked.

[RADIUM-V Interactive]

Ya know, you can set it to automatically log in when you go here. Then you never have to know - unless you use a different computer.

[relsoft]

Ya know, you can set it to automatically log in when you go here. Then you never have to know - unless you use a different computer.

err.... I'm not the only one who uses this computer.

[Agamemnus]

Yeah that's creepy.

Maybe it's some sort of search engine. (maybe even google)

hifty:

[Sumo Jo]

Yeah that's creepy.

Maybe it's some sort of search engine. (maybe even google)

hifty:

It is. At least one of the bots that's using it the most is google.

[yetifoot]

I'm sure you have, but just in case you could check the robots.txt is correct?

Code:

User-Agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

Its been a long time since i wrote a robots.txt but should it be -

Code:

User-Agent: *
         Disallow: /index.php
         Disallow: /forum/
         Disallow: forum/
         etc...

Multiple forms of disallow (forum/, /forum/, /forum, forum ) to make sure robots really ignore it.