Posts by trichome

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

I'm afraid I'm in the same boat as you, absolutego. At first I was assuming that it was just humans doing the registration portion, but after my experience here I'm a little unsure. The simple snippet nature of this mod is nice, so hopefully it can be confirmed or fixed.

It should be noted that even when working perfectly, this is not a complete anti-spam solution. If you haven't, look into this mod, as well as the one mentioned above (though it may not be ready for prime time yet).

Also, I noticed that FluxBB project lead, Reines had a collection of highly useful mods but all seem to have 404'd.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Well I made the changes you so kindly summarized last night and this morning only 1 listed spammer had registered, down from ~10!

I understand that it can be very unpleasant to pick up someone else's code so your help here is very much appreciated. Thank you!

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

I'm still getting ~10 spammers per day that are already listed on stopforumspam. Many of them have been listed for months so I'm assuming it's not just a synch issue with dnsbl.tornevall.org.

I made the change Smartys pointed out with the double equals sign, other than that everything is set up per the readme. Any ideas on what could be going wrong? Spammers are such a pain.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Thank you so much!

I can understand not wanting to rely on third party services for anything in the core but if I had to pick 3 mods to be officially maintained they would be the bad behavior mod, this mod, and the recaptcha mod. The bad behavior mod alone blocks from 7-10K access requests a week for me.

Sorry to go off topic here, but the ability to keep a forum free of spam and the work associated with it means A LOT, and those who make that possible deserve a big thank you!

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Thanks, Smartys. I hope the PHP-minded among us can figure this out. It's a big help in preventing spam.

I'm also using your excellent bad behavior mod.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

I've been getting spam from IPs already listed on SFS. Yesterday I moved from the snippet version to the full mod but they're still getting through somehow. Nasty spammers like this.

I'm guessing that dnsbl.tornevall.org is either slow to synch with SFS or otherwise unavailable when the checks were done. From what I understand the code on this mod was changed to not allow blacklisted IPs to even view the registration page.

Any ideas on what may be allowing the spammers to get through?

trichome · Core development

Has there been any more thought/development put into this? In my experience there's no need for more than one report per post and zapping 5-10 duplicate reports every time is annoying especially since the admin panel only shows the last 10.

Speaking of which, since reports are never actually deleted from the database would it make sense to paginate the report page or provide access to them?

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Just installed. Fast and painless, I love mods like this!

Thanks gnat!!

trichome · Announcements

Great work! Best lightweight forum software out there!

Updated without a hitch as usual.

trichome · General support (1.4 / 1.5)

There's a really simple method here.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Thank you. I saw of Reines' mod, but because I'm using another modification which already provides the blocking functionality, I'm looking specifically for a small code snippet with the functionality described in the first post.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

I'd like to add a link to the administration section of profiles to add the user information to Stopforumspam.

Like this:

The link would contain the user info like so:

http://www.stopforumspam.com/add.php?username=USERNAME&ip_addr=IPADDRESS&email=EMAILADDRESS&api_key=ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

It should be a snippet of code to add to profile.php

If this is something straightforward that you can do in 5 minutes I'll paypal $10 to you or donate it to FluxBB. Thanks!

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Looks good! Here's the simple snippet:

--OPEN
register.php

--FIND
// Did everything go according to plan?

--INSERT BEFORE
// Check if registrar's IP belongs to any black lists, if found redirect to index.php to deny registration.
$dnsbl_lists = array("opm.tornevall.org", "b.barracudacentral.org", "sbl.spamhaus.org", "xbl.spamhaus.org");
$reverse_ip = implode(".", array_reverse(explode(".", get_remote_address())));
$check = 0;
foreach($dnsbl_lists as $list)
{
    if(checkdnsrr($reverse_ip.".".$list.".", "A")) {
        $check = 1;
        break; // for speedy checks just find in any list and then break
    }
}
if($check == 1) redirect('index.php', $lang_register['Spam IP Failed']);

--OPEN
lang/English/register.php

--FIND
'Register'                    =>    'Register',

--ADD AFTER
'Spam IP Failed'            =>    'Your IP is listed in one or more spammer databases!',

Edit: Insert point updated with Smartys' input here.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

You sir are correct!

That can't be right.

Upon further inspection it looks like zen might not be the ticket because it includes the pbl blocklist:

http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Spamhaus%20PBL#183 wrote:

The first thing to know is: THE PBL IS NOT A BLACKLIST. You are not listed for spamming or for anything you have done. The PBL is simply a list of all of the world's dynamic IP space, i.e: IP ranges normally assigned to ISP broadband customers (DSL, DHCP, PPP, cable, dialup). It is perfectly normal for dynamic IP addresses to be listed on the PBL. In fact all dynamic IP addresses in the world should be on the PBL. Even static IPs which do not send mail should be listed in the PBL.

So easy to fix though! That's what I love about this type of mod. In fact, since it's so simple to install and edit I'd almost prefer to just use the lean little code snippet you posted earlier as opposed to a plugin. Would using the snippet that create less (miniscule measurements I'm sure) overhead? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to diminish the importance of this or discourage you; just curious. I've gotten used to thinking as light as possible with FluxBB!

Thanks again for this!

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Very nice! I've been using this snippet and have found it to be quite effective. Great to see a beefed up version that still keeps it nice and simple. Thanks!

Edit: Is it redundant to use all the spamhaus blocklists?

http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/ wrote:

zen.spamhaus.org should be the only spamhaus.org DNSBL in your IP blocklist configuration. You should not use ZEN together with other Spamhaus IP blocklists, or with blocklists already included in our zones (such as the CBL) or you will simply be wasting DNS queries

trichome · Announcements

The best forum software just keeps getting better. Thanks, guys! Easy upgrade as usual.

trichome · General support (1.4 / 1.5)

Here's an interesting captcha system, not a new idea but this implementation looks pretty solid. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/ … ts/asirra/

Has adding more information to the registration notification emails ever been discussed? Being able to see the ip/email/website/signature fields might be nice. I mean it's not that hard to just click the link to the profile, and I can understand keeping it minimal. Just thinking out loud.

Reines wrote:

I've added a Fighting Spam page under the administration section for 1.4.

Looks good! I've been using the bad behavior mod and it's working great!

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

I've been using the code snipped posted here (thanks MattF!) to check the visitor's ip against the stopforumspam blacklist on the registration page. It's great to me because it's quick and easy to set up after an upgrade and doesn't make any changes to the database, etc. Also very effective.

Of course, spammers that aren't yet in the sfs database get through so I add them to it myself. It would be really convenient if there was a way to do this automatically! Seemingly all it would take is an extra link (only displayed for admins) on each profile page like this:

http://www.stopforumspam.com/add.php?username=USERNAME&ip_addr=IPADDRESS&email=EMAILADDRESS&api_key=ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I tried to hack something together from Reines' mod but my total lack of PHP skill stopped that. If one of you PHP ninjas could lend your talents that would be awesome.

trichome · Modifications (1.4 / 1.5)

Thanks for updating the mods, daris.

I was using the old version of EasyBBcode and this updated version works fine except that duplicate smileys are displayed.

For example, the default parser has

':)' => 'smile.png',
'=)' => 'smile.png',

Which causes 2 happy faces to show up in the post box when using this mod.

I think these arethe relevant bits of code:

OLD VERSION

<?php

// Display the smiley set
require_once PUN_ROOT.'include/parser.php';

$smiley_dups = array();
$num_smilies = count($smiley_text);
for ($i = 0; $i < 23; ++$i)
{
    // Is there a smiley at the current index?
    if (!isset($smiley_text[$i]))
        continue;

    if (!in_array($smiley_img[$i], $smiley_dups))
        echo "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".'<a href="javascript:insert_text(\''.$smiley_text[$i].'\', \'\');"><img src="img/smilies/'.$smiley_img[$i].'" alt="'.$smiley_text[$i].'" /></a>'."\n";

    $smiley_dups[] = $smiley_img[$i];
}

?>

NEW VERSION

<?php

// Display the smiley set
require_once PUN_ROOT.'include/parser.php';

$i = 0;
foreach ($smilies as $key => $smiley)
{
    if ($i++ > 16) break;
    
    echo "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t".'<img onclick="insert_text(\''.$key.'\', \'\');" src="img/smilies/'.$smiley.'" alt="'.$key.'" title="'.$key.'" />'."\n";
}

?>

I tried to fix it but I can't PHP.

trichome · FluxBB discussion

This falls under the nitpicking category.

Do you think "Total number of" could be done away with?

Total number of registered users: 2,040
Total number of topics: 2,929
Total number of posts: 25,970

trichome · Feature requests

How about a class bbcode tag?

[class=myclass]Text here.[/class]

Maybe append a prefix to all custom classes so they don't conflict with any of the main css files.

Then you'd just need define the properties in your css file.

trichome · FluxBB discussion

qie wrote:

a better choice: vBulletin

Them's fightin' words around here, buddy.

I kid, of course, but maybe at least explain your reasoning for such a bold statement? If vBulletin is the already the preferred choice of the majority that will use it then alright. But there may be compelling reasons to go with Flux as well, such as speed (recently mentioned), ease of use (assuming the users aren't completely shackled to vb), and perhaps cost. I'll admit that I didn't read up on the wiki the OP posted, gotta fly!

OP wrote:

because if this is the kind of support FluxBB provides then there is absolutely no hope of it ever being chosen. What a pity.

Fairly sure qie isn't a part of the FluxBB team.

trichome · FluxBB discussion

We all know and love FluxBB for being super lightweight. An install of Flux is noticeably snappier than any of the major forum offerings, especially once you have over 50 people browsing concurrently. 150+ on shared host with vb phpbb or ipb... doubtful. In fact, Flux is one of, if not the fastest PHP apps I've ever used.

Google has proven that page load speed is a huge factor in keeping users happy, not that it was a big surprise. But it is surprising that there aren't more people using Flux... yet! I'll take this opportunity to give my obligatory thank you to the devs. I know there have to be some bigger forums running Flux, and those admins and users appreciate the efficient, well written code that is this great piece of software.

So what are some of the bigger Flux boards out there? Bigboards doesn't seem to have any listed...

http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/ is the biggest I'm aware of:
163024 users
373912 topics
3083883 posts

Bonus: Post your own numbers.

My board's around 2 years old and seems to be growing quickly. probably about 60 people (users + guests) online average. Max was ~1K
Total number of registered users: 2,441
Total number of topics: 1,847
Total number of posts: 59,718

BTW, I did search for a similar topic (pretty sure one exists) but got 0 results for "big OR biggest OR large OR largest".

trichome · Feature requests

First off, thank you for making a great forum package. I love the speed and understand how keeping things lightweight is important, I can't wait for 1.4, it's exciting to follow the progress in trac. After using it for 3 years I really don't have many complaints, however I hope you won't mind me sharing a few ideas for your consideration.

1. I think a 'send a copy to my address' check box would be useful on the send email form page.

2. If you merge 2 threads and leave a redirect topic, the redirect sends you to the first post of the oldest thread. I realize this makes sense logistically, but often it would be useful to have it link directly to the first post of the newer thread.

For example: Someone makes a new thread: "How do you pitch a tent", ignoring the "All camping questions go here" thread. If you merged them and decided to leave a redirect topic for that person, it would be useful if the redirect topic linked to the "How do you pitch a tent" post within the older camping questions thread. Do you think an option to do this would be possible or justifiable?

3. I modified the announcement code using these instructions, so the announcement message only appears for guests. I think it's useful to be able to display a message to guests, and considering that a message for guests will typically always be displayed while an announcement for registered members is used less frequently, one could make the case for this as the default behavior. I think it would be great to have both as an option.

Thanks for your consideration!

trichome · General support (1.4 / 1.5)

Alright sounds good.

Guess I shouldn't be on the bleeding edge with so little PHP knowledge... the new features, like ordered lists are pretty hard to resist though.

Thanks for all the work put into 1.4 thus far!

Forums

#1 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] reCaptcha Anti Spam » 2011-12-15 14:19:49

#2 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-12-15 14:11:19

#3 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-12-15 01:05:21

#4 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-12-12 16:34:32

#5 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-12-12 16:16:30

#6 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-12-12 15:20:04

#7 Re: Core development » Reporting topics » 2011-12-06 18:37:08

#8 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] reCaptcha Anti Spam » 2011-12-02 06:06:41

#9 Re: Announcements » FluxBB 1.4.6 released » 2011-08-13 12:11:56

#10 Re: General support (1.4 / 1.5) » Anyway to add colors to usernames? » 2011-06-21 18:16:41

#11 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » Simple Profile Mod Request - Will Pay » 2011-05-11 07:57:57

#12 Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » Simple Profile Mod Request - Will Pay » 2011-05-09 18:02:09

#13 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-05-03 23:57:27

#14 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-05-03 19:35:46

#15 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » [MOD] Spam IP Check (stopforumspam.com, spamhaus.org, etc.) » 2011-04-30 23:02:31

#16 Re: Announcements » FluxBB 1.4.5 released » 2011-03-24 14:18:26

#17 Re: General support (1.4 / 1.5) » What is best "current" way to stop SPAM » 2011-03-03 14:05:17

#18 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » StopForumSpam extension » 2011-02-19 22:10:55

#19 Re: Modifications (1.4 / 1.5) » Mods updated to FluxBB 1.4 / my plugins for FluxBB » 2010-08-25 04:13:29

#20 FluxBB discussion » Footer Stats Wording - Redundant? » 2010-04-30 21:02:39

#21 Feature requests » CSS BBCode tag » 2010-03-15 21:09:15

#22 Re: FluxBB discussion » FluxBB at meego.com » 2010-03-10 03:40:11

#23 FluxBB discussion » FluxBB XXL - Big Forums Running FluxBB » 2010-03-10 03:30:31

#24 Feature requests » Email Copies, Redirect Topics and Announcement Ideas » 2010-02-06 17:35:45

#25 Re: General support (1.4 / 1.5) » Easy BBCode with Flux 1.4 » 2009-07-23 21:56:51

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