[Klaustrophobia]

A couple days ago I was greeted by a message saying I was banned.  Screenshot below.  Using firefox instead of IE lets me in on this computer, and neither is banned on my laptop (which is behind the same router).  Screenshot of message attached.  Is there anything I do on my end to fix it, or just keep using FF until it clears up?



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[Qent]

That's weird....

Did you try cleaning out the cache and stuff?

[Klaustrophobia]

well whatever it was it's gone now.  if someone fixed it, thanks.

Solution: don't use IE.

no.

[Mongoose]

Um, guys...do you think you can quit the browser wanking and maybe address the actual issue here?

[Zacam]

The issue is rather simple, yet also complicated.

CloudFlare has been re-instated again, and it's going to have a couple of hiccups while things get ironed out. I'd rather we iron them out if at all possible rather than just dismiss it's use again, since fending off 200+ attempted spam account registrations PER DAY is getting mighty tedious and there is only so much that we can do within the SMF system to keep them out. If we can prevent them from even -hitting- the site in the first place, so much the better.

There will be randomized hiccups, but so far there are no black-listed domains or ips on CloudFlare for Hard-Light. When and where there are member problems, I will white-list the members access IP(s).

I know there are supposed to be announcements, but I personally wanted to see what level of impact that it would have without any forwarning, since reverting it off is a fairly straight forward process.

[jr2]

Let's see, your other browsers had no problem, but CloudFlare blacklisted your IE?  Was your IE configured to use a proxy or something out of the ordinary?

[Klaustrophobia]

Nope, IE has the pretty much standard setup.  I do use spybot's immunize, but I can't imagine that would have anything to do with it, and it affects firefox also.

[jr2]

And you use the latest IE for your OS?

EDIT: And, RE your other response, sheesh, calm down, I'm not attacking you or your choice.  I was simply trying to point some things out that some people don't know.  I use IE myself occasionally, however I really try to avoid it as much as possible because of the reasons mentioned.  If you are aware of the issues and still want to use IE, that's fine.    I'm not trying to bash you, just IE.  Like I said, you can use it as you please.  I just wanted to be sure you were aware of the other things I mentioned in the other post.  Which is why I was trying to help you troubleshoot your IE, even though I don't recommend using it.