@julian If you use nodebb's IP blacklist option (I do not), it does make a difference But in any case something needs to be defined, there are 2 options: Set a trusted proxy otherwise the forum will never know the real IP addresses, the cloudflare address will always appear, and IP addresses are a very useful thing to identify duplicate spam users, for example. 1.1 Optional - define a transform rule that will verify that the received address is real and not faked by a slightly advanced user Add the line I brought, and thus actually refer to CF-Connecting-IP I don't see any security advantage for trusted proxy (method 1) over the definition I brought.

NodeBB SEO is in fine fettle. cloudflare is bad for traffic Returns this thread as the #1 result in duckduckgo Does this answer the question?

@DownPW I'm not sure it's solely traffic that causes this. I took saw this frequently when I used Cloudflare and it became so bad that I decided to stop using the service altogether. No issues since.

@Andi no problem, happy to help

Try removing the SPDY support and see if it works. I had to disable SPDY with SSL to get it to towork.

Updated to master & works like a charm ;).

@markkus What cloudflare package do you have? Also can you link your forum

We just removed it from the ACP, it can be put in config.json now in a socket.io block. https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/configuring/config.html

@hek Thanks, so remove it immediately