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Since I upgraded to S9Y 0.9-beta2, my RSS- / OPML-sidebar-plugin doesn't display anything anymore. Also, the top referrers aren't counting up as they should. I already deleted and reinstalled them, but that also didn't work.

Is there any way to test the functionality within S9Y? I'm sorry, but I haven't found anything regarding this one here...

Sadly the RSS-Sidebar plugin is broken in beta2, but has been fixed in the current nightly snapshots. You can just download the nightly, or even only the serendipity_plugin_remoterss directory which will fix that.

Referrers are blocked when more than one hit comes at your blog in a certain timespan, so you must check with different referrers before they add up.

Best regards and HTH,
Garvin

Hey Garvin!

Thanks for answering. Yes, it helped a lot. Keep up the great work!

P.S.: Maybe it's time for registering that nick here too.

OK, remoterss works flawlessly now. Thanks again.

When it comes to referrers, nothing gets counted up since the upgrade to 0.9beta2 unfortunatly. I know there are at least some hits from a Planetplanet (e.g.), but I'm unable to find these within S9Y. Even the db-tables aren't upgraded, so I don't really know if this could be a DB-related problem.

Any chance to analyse that one?

Did you check the serendipity_suppress table and see if the referrers are added there? This is the first-step of our filtering, to check that table...

Best regards,
Garvin

Yeah, I found these entries within serendipity_suppress. Every referrer (I'm aware of) is in there, starting from 2005-10-18. Could you please explain the steps S9Y takes to display referrers into the sidebar-plugin? Maybe this will clarify some things here. I don't get the point why they're not showing up although the frequency is set to 1 day.

Could you please search the forums here for "referrer" and/or "suppress"? I've explained this a few times already, but currently have no time to look it up. It must definitely be there, as the logic is a bit hard to grasp. It acts as a mean for blocking referrers that "spam" your site.

Regards,
Garvin

OK, I found your explanation about referrer-handling. Read it once, read it twice, (think I) understood, but this also doesn't help me in this case: "legal" referrers are only put into serendipity_suppress, not further processing takes place.

In this case, I'm still wondering how to debug this one.

I must admit that I just hate Referrer Tracking and the whole logic around it. Besides, Referrers are mostly spammed and faked and mostly useless nowadays.

Regards,
Garvin