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So, after implementing the new catchpa, the spam comments seem to have increased in number! Am seriously thinking of doing what Muki suggested and changing the name of the comments files to something else. But no time for that ):
So, I’ve disallowed comments on all previous posts except hte last 4 or so. And I’ll [...]
Ok, so I’ve installed a new ‘catchpa’ system for comments on here. Hopefully, it’ll keep away all those frigging SPAM comments. Yeay.
Thanks to the code found here:
Added simple comment spam protection
If bBlog ever gets updated, hopefully they’ll add this to their features.
Fixed the stupid thing. I worked out that when they transferred my stuff, they obviously didn’t check the tables very carefully. They forgot to make the postid field of the posts table AUTO INCREMENT in which case, the thing kept falling over when I was trying to post, because it went “oh, default value 0… [...]
to a new host!
Yeap, I’ve found a better deal at a different server so tylandrian.net is moving! Not that I don’t like our current host, but only having one database is a little limiting.
Anyways, the site may be down for a few days whilst the nameserver info propagates and they transfer everything to the new [...]
Ok, I am slowly, but surely, hacksing my way through bBlog. I do rather like this blogging/CMS tool. It’s fairly easy to use and most of the stuff is straight-forward. It uses the Smarty template engine and seems to make a lot of things simpler. At the same time, there’s lots that doesn’t work out [...]
Ok. I’m fairly sure bots have been doing weird things with the commenting feature of my site. I’ve deleted all the ones that advertise some odd website, but … there are these ones that are like “Well done admin, that’s really good”. What’s with that? I’ve left them though cos they’re somewhat amusing. If you’re [...]