Hey Team! I have a slight issue with Discourse forums and Pale Moon browser (any OS, all versions). Please look at attachment. This issue started happening after january 20 somewhere, and seems a js issue as I get Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled. - Yes I have js enabled. I could not post on your issue tracker on github as it’s disabled, so here you go. Best regards Peter [image]

I guess it is technically correct this is not a bot or crawler, so we can add an exception here. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/7af9ed66746536a51ee91da230514fab2be98293

Hi Peter, We never intended to use GitHub Issues to track bugs or other, the right place to report is here on meta.discourse.org.

Hi Peter, it looks like Discourse classifies your browser as a bot. Bot detection has been improved at the beginning of January: Smarter handling of random crawler traffic Did you override the user agent in your browser? What’s the user agent shown at http://www.whatsmyua.info/ when you visit it with your Pale Moon browser? Gerhard

Hi Gerhard, Ah I see. Thank you for explaining it to me. Will you whitelist Pale Moon in the future? user agent show: ## According to [useragent](https://github.com/3rd-Eden/useragent) v2.1.9: - rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:3.4) Goanna/20180208 PaleMoon/27.7.2 - family: Pale Moon (Firefox Variant) Best regards Petter ··· From: “Gerhard Schlager” meta@discoursemail.com To: biopsin@getmail.no Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 1:52:06 PM Subject: [Discourse Meta] [PM] Discourse and Pale Moon browser gerhard Gerhard Schlager team February 14 Hi Peter, it looks like Discourse classifies your browser as a bot. Bot detection has been improved at the beginning of January: Smarter handling of random crawler traffic Did you override the user agent in your browser? What’s the user agent shown at http://www.whatsmyua.info/ when you visit it with your Pale Moon browser? Gerhard

This is how we detect if something is not a crawler: config/site_settings.yml main unicode_usernames: default: false client: true validator: "UnicodeUsernameValidator" area: "localization" allowed_unicode_username_characters: validator: "UnicodeUsernameAllowlistValidator" default: "" locale_default: cs: "[ěščřžýáíéóůúďťňĚŠČŘŽÝÁÍÉÓŮÚĎŤŇ]" de: "[äöüßÄÖÜẞ]" fi: "[åäöÅÄÖ]" ja: '[\p{Han}\p{Katakana}\p{Hiragana}ー]' ko: '\p{Hangul}' zh_CN: '\p{Han}' zh_TW: '\p{Han}' area: "localization" reserved_usernames: type: list list_type: compact default: "admin|moderator|administrator|mod|sys|system|community|info|you|name|username|user|nickname|discourse|discourseorg|discourseforum|support|all|here" Since I can not see “Goanna or Palemoon” in here: trident|webkit|gecko|chrome|safari|msie|opera you are not being detected as a real browser. Traditionally all browsers ship the pedegree with the user agent string: https://twitter.com/potch/status/963581752852717568

Hi Sam, Thank you for your reply. I did not know it was a UA issue until Gerhard pointed it out, if it´s troublesome I can always do a override. Since I´m not a Pale Moon developer, only a daily Discourse user using my fav browser, I can only however hope to read one day Discourse supports this Firefox fork :slight_smile: Have a nice day. Petter

[image] sam: Trouble though is it sends a message that we support this Firefox fork, which we do not Opera, at least the old one with the Presto engine, isn’t officially supported either. Yet it’s on the list.

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sam (Sam Saffron) February 15, 2018, 10:23am 8

After reading Goanna (software) - Wikipedia I guess I am ok to add goanna to our magic string.

Trouble though is it sends a message that we support this Firefox fork, which we do not

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