phpBB has CLI and I believe you can add user with it.
https://area51.phpbb.com/docs/dev/3.3.x/cli/index.html
https://area51.phpbb.com/docs/dev/3.3.x/cli/index.html
Bots are identified by the user agent, if for example you had a public "off topic" forum you didn't want indexed you can prevent the bots from accessing it. It also hides a lot of links that you wouldn't want indexed.There sure are a lot of BOT users, but my few created users are there.
Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:17 am