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Easy to opt out of analytical tracking, if you want to. I recommend uBlock Origin, but there are many tracking blockers available. I don't actually run Piwik/Matomo on the Forum any more, so there's only the Google Analytics analysis used by Cycling UK. The tracking you should mostly be worried abou...

Yeah, it's impossible to stop banned users from coming back with a new username.

If they behave themselves this isn't a problem. If they continue to abuse then they'll find their new account blocked pretty quickly.

Whichever the person requesting a change of username prefers. The first option requires an admin to do the change, the second can be done by anyone. We generally don't allow username changes, because it confuses other Forum users and is sort-of "rewriting history". But we do allow changes ...

You can turn user signature display off.

1. Click your username
2. User Control Panel
3. Board preferences
4. Edit display options
5. Display signatures: No.

Two ways this could be done:

1. Change the username for the account
2. Create a new account

If the username is changed for the account, all posts from that account will show the new username.

If you get blocked again, please could you let me know your IP address (ask Google) _before_ you restart your router? Then I can look to see what your IP address has been requesting. Might give us a clue why you're having these "too many requests" problems. Reconnecting your router will (t...

That isn't anything to do with the Forum software, or the server security.

I've adjusted the "too many requests" limit to allow people to look at many topics in quick succession at a reasonable rate for a human being to click, speed-read, and request the next topic page. You shouldn't get blocked any more, John. Tip: you might be able to avoid having to read a lo...

After opening and/or reading every dozen or so posts I get shut out again with he message "Too many requests". This might be for an hour or several hours. Since originally I was shut out for three days I can never catch up. Can you help? Sorry John, you must be opening topics to read very...

Sorry, there was an apparent DDoS attack on the Forum from early morning until I woke up. Hundreds of requests per second for every Forum topic possible from many different servers. Caused the database server to run out of connections.

Fixed, and new protection measures in place.

This forum works with the well-known phpBB forum software.

If you get stuck with something, ask here or Google what you want to do with the keyword "phpBB" included.

["Assemble" is the new CyclingUK volunteers' website, with documents, discussions, calendars, etc.]

Those that don't want to see signatures can turn them off:

I can investigate if you can tell me which topic was causing you problems. Might be useful to know when you had the problems, too. My best guess is a browser or network issue, as I've never heard of posting problems that are limited to just one topic. Can't think of any logical reason why that might...

PDQ Mobile wrote:If a topic is locked then it shows as locked, surely?

Yes, that is true.