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Does that thing really work? I just made that one, because someone said it would work.
Spoke too soon, I woke up this morning to quite a number of registrations. It may have slowed things down for a day, but I believe spammers read Punres also.
IMHO, there's has to be an easy way for admins to turn on/off anti-spam/anti-bot measures.
Ignore the bots, and they will eat your project.
Then I'll have to use this mod from a trusted user
FSX, I applied the above mod to one of my forums, I got tired of all the &^%$#*& registrations.
One thing to keep in mind, if this becomes an official mod, is that if you have Rules enabled, then it fails to allow a registration.
I disabled Rules and it's working really well, thanks.
The bottom line is and always has been that whether a feature is good, bad, essential or pointless is largely in the eye of the beholder. For example I would choose to scrap jump menu, board description, user ranks, signatures and several other things that many users would consider a necessity.
One person's junk is another person's treasure 
I've never used the jump menu, in all the time I've used Pun. User ranks is another feature I leave alone, but board description and signatures I do use quite often.
Not to deviate this thread, but since we're talking about BBCode, I'd like to see an option one day where we could have a toolbar to assist us in creating posts. I'm very familiar with BBCode but there are days that I wish I could just highlight text and press a button. Yes, there are many mods out there but having something ship with the core, would not be a bad thing in my opinion. Of all the BBCode toolbars I've used on forums, the one in Phorum feels right.
if Flux 1.4 is close to release, how about an effective Spam blocker for it?
FSX is planning on releasing some spam mods for 1.4.
And I agree, we should stop them at the gates.
I don't think they liked me telling the truth here... I just rcvd this PM and had my moderator status removed lol.
Hey, if they can't take constructive criticism, then it's their loss. Before the sale of PunBB, I was a moderator also, but I asked to be removed from my duties.
Here's an excellent example of what I mean:
7 news posts, only one is legit. It was almost midnight on the east coast of the United States.
They say that after 11:00 pm is the busiest time on the web, yet the lights are out at PunBB.org.
Anyway that's all history.
People get involved with Open Source for various reasons, as an education, to make their resumes look better, or to do something with their time. Most communities are made up of really young people and older individuals. The young find girlfriends, or get bored with what they're doing, while the old scratch their heads wondering what happened.
Personally, I wanted to see PunBB succeed just for the thrill of it. Money never entered my mind, cause if money was my aim, I wouldn't be helping out projects, I'd be launching porn sites.
Maybe one day they will figure out that business model approach does not work AT ALL on open source model!
I've alluded to this in the past, on this forum and over at the PunBB forums, obviously the Informer crew doesn't seem to really care.
In Firefox, I have all the forums I follow as bookmarks and use Open all in tabs a number of times a day, makes it real easy to see what's happening.
For the longest time, the PunBB.org forums have like 50% spam on a daily basis. Old threads dug up by some spammer to inject links via his/her comment or via their signatures. What troubles me is that these posts hang around for a while, like nobody is paying attention at certain times during the day. You would think that they would have moderators on a rotating basis to cover a 24 hour span, but it appears that's not the case.
Once I make the switch to FluxBB 1.4, I'll remove the link to PunBB from my bookmarks, it's getting a bit painful to visit them.
Nowadays, for security reasons, web servers are locking down. I don't recall when including extern.php started to give me errors, but tech support suggested using curl.
This is what I do at PHPXref to grab the latest updates from a PunBB forum:
$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,'http://phpxref.net/extern.php?action=new&show=10&fid=5');
curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);We currently have discussions going on in the dev board about what theme 1.4 should use by default
My $.02 would be to ship 1.4 with a new default theme, the work that went into 1.3's look and feel can be brought over. Just pick another element, like Titanium, Helium or Hydrogen. Heck, we can have a contest to pick the new name, the winner receives a free copy of FluxBB 1.4
Nice rant, sadly it's getting worse by the day.
Bot/Spider traffic, according to AWStats, accounts for 57% of my bandwidth. 57% of what AWStats believes are non-humans, if another percentage of human traffic are also bots/spiders, because they haven't made it into robots.pm or they're masking themselves as browsers, then I could be looking at close to 70% of cron jobs and rss readers hitting my web server.
I'm planning to make/update some mods and old mods for 1.4 like Akismet.
Oh, how I hate bots!
Yesterday, I had 113 signups on one of my forums, this kind of activity has been the norm for some time now. I was going to apply one of your mods but I'm going to wait to see what you have to offer for 1.4.
Thanks Reines for making us aware of the vulnerability.
I went ahead and made the changes to admin_prune.php on my PunBB 1.2.21 boards. I'm waiting on FluxBB 1.4 to make the switch over, since I have a number of mods applied.
I think bots can do that too.
Then I'll have to use this mod from a trusted user
Yeah, I guess they'll continue hitting all boards but some of the ones hitting mine seem to be real people, cause they sign on and update their profile with their link of choice and upload an avatar.
Having more users is ok, it's the freaking amount of mail that goes out on a daily basis, but I do like the avatar collection I'm building.
Seeing progress being made, almost there.
One of the features i like in 1.4 is the ability to designate what groups can see the User List, it happens to be the favorite pastime of spammers these days, signing up and then going into their profile and adding a link to their porn, dating or fill_in_the_blank site of choice.
A while back I applied Smarty's mod, but they continue signing up, hopefully when my forums switch to FluxBB, they'll go away for good.
I see you're running 1.4 for Shinobu support, which is what I want to do, start using it already on a site I want to launch.
Other than "Those bloody spambots keep registering" problem, anything else you've encountered on a live site with the 1.4 code that would keep me from using it also?
From what I see these are the remaining tickets for a 1.4 final release:
Ticket Summary Component Version Milestone Type Owner Status Created
#86 Allow "up"dating from v1.3 Code None 1.4 Final defect new 05/12/09
#87 Sticky's not showing in search Code None 1.4 Final defect FSX new 08/09/09
#89 Move post with only 1 board Code None 1.4 Final defect new 08/24/09
#91 Subscribe checkbox should be checked when you are subscribed Code None 1.4 Final defect new 08/24/09 Other than these tickets, are there any other code changes planned?
Switching this board over to the latest 1.4 could help us all test it in a live environment. I've been testing it at home but there's nothing like a live environment for getting out those pesky bugs that ultimately get missed by testers.
Yes, it is: http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=3235
Real nice theme for your forum rahahm33, too bad it's running the evil rival's version
PS. I finally learned to love Textpattern but only with your template saving/updating plugin.
Cool, simplicity does have it's merits 
Impressive, the best of luck.
The longest I've ever ridden was 100 miles one day and 100 miles back the next, what they call a double century but it was split into 2 days. When I was in good shape, I wanted to do a cross country ride, from the west coast of the USA to the east coast. But I never found the time to take a month off to do it. Today, I'm content to ride my mountain bike on the nearby trails.
Thanks.
If someone has the time, for 1.4's release, a version history would be great.
Offtopic: Your signature, are you riding 1400 km?
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