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If you are running on a Linux server take a look at Fail2ban. https://www.fail2ban.org/ We are running fail2ban already however we don't have any specific rules set up for phpbb, and I don't know that any exist already. Do you know of any? phpbb has some of its own filtering tools built in and I ad...

It appears that someone may have been repeatedly attempting to log in to Everett's account to trigger the CAPTCHA. I adjusted some settings so that the CAPTCHA is triggered per IP address before it gets triggered per username. Hopefully this additional time-waster will deter people from attempting t...

Hi- Sorry for the delay here. We don't actually force password changes to my knowledge. I will check it out.

I'd recommend trying the password reset with whatever email(s) you might have used. I can't give out user's emails. Otherwise you'll have to use the new account. Thanks -dm

Sorry, this is fixed now.
-dm

Hi- This should be fixed (a few weeks ago)
I changed to a different captcha. Let me know if it's still happening. Thanks

We had an issue with tracking numbers not showing up with orders but that should be (mostly) fixed now. Thanks for letting us know.
-Dan M

Hi Everyone, There have been some issues lately that we are aware of and we are working to improve. Aside from the busy holiday season, we have changed over to some newer systems, so we are sorry if any requests have fallen through the cracks. We are working on a new web site, and still working out ...

I changed some of these settings to reduce database load and improve security.

The member list and who's online is something that spammers were checking to see if they've succeeded at registering

Glad it's working better now. I can tell it's faster on the new server as well.

And thanks again for everyone who has spent so much time dealing with spam