- Xenforo.com resource URL
- https://xenforo.com/community/resources/xb-user-fake-activity.8780/
- Compatibile XF2 versions
- 2.2
- 2.3
Simulate realistic member activity to make your forum appear more active and engaging.
This add-on automates configurable forum activity such as browsing, posting, reactions, registrations, and more, with optional AI-generated content and extensive controls for scheduling, targeting, and performance.
Features:
Flexible Activity Triggers: Create multiple triggers to simulate activity across selected areas of your forum.
Scheduling Options: Configure start and end dates, execution intervals, and active time windows.
Online User Conditions: Run triggers only when the number of online users falls within configurable limits.
User Selection: Target specific users or user groups, including automatic assignment of secondary user groups.
AI-Generated Content:Connect OpenAI-compatible providers such as OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Ollama, or LM Studio to generate realistic profiles, thread titles, posts, and other content.- Background content generation with an hourly queue.
- Configurable daily request budget.
- Automatic fallback to static content if the AI service is unavailable.
Simulated Activities
Page Views: Make selected users appear online while browsing supported forum pages.
Threads & Replies: Create new threads and replies using AI-generated or predefined content.
Reactions & Follows: Simulate reactions and user follows with configurable targeting and duplicate prevention.
Content Watching: Simulate watching threads, forums, resources, media, blogs, articles, groups, and other supported content.
User Registration: Create configurable fake accounts with generated usernames, email addresses, passwords, profile information, custom fields, user groups, and preferences.
Group Membership: Simulate users joining groups when supported group add-ons are installed.
Management & Safety
Load Safeguards: Limit the number of actions per trigger and warn about potentially excessive activity.
Trigger Testing: Preview selected users and targets before running a trigger manually.
Trigger Management: Create, edit, clone, enable, disable, and delete individual triggers.
Activity Dashboard: Monitor simulated activity with charts, summaries, recent runs, and optional logging with automatic cleanup.
Useful for:
New Communities: Create the appearance of an active forum while building an initial member base.
Testing: Generate realistic forum activity for development and demonstrations.
Automation: Simulate user engagement without manual intervention.
Community Presentation: Keep forums looking active during quieter periods.