Hi, On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 6:38 PM D.T. <ohnonot-git...@posteo.de> wrote:
> Me (drooly) and RexBouwense have been the only ones to moderate > https://forum.lxde.org/ for a couple of years now. > Every time I log in I have to remove a slew of spam posts, usually from > individual accounts that then have to be banned as well. I assume > RexBouwense is doing the same. > This has been going on ever since I became moderator, and before that > afaik. > Today, only 2 days after Rex last logged in, I had to remove 30 spam posts > and almost as many users, and there wasn't one legitimate new post since my > last login over a week ago! > > Something has to happen here. It casts a really bad light on the project, > esp. considering the forum is linked several times on the LXDE.org web site. > > Previous efforts to contact the forum site administrators have been > fruitless, and I have no idea how else to contact someone responsible. > > Either the forum software will have to be made more spam resistant or > changed altogether, or the forum needs to be closed down, because I don't > know how long I can keep on doing this (and I'm sure Rex feels the same). > Sorry, it's me to blame. Actually in recent years I don't have much will to continue maintaining the systems. I was considering handing the forums and wiki off to other maintainers. I was trying to hand it over to Alf Gaida but he seems to have been unresponsive since around 2 years ago. Currently it's running on legacy systems of phpBB, MediaWiki and Wordpress, which was on my Linode account since 6 years ago, and are somehow difficult to maintain continuously, and in the lack of human resources I hope these can be migrated to a hosted system, instead of closing it down. One of the ways I am thinking is to freeze the contents of the website, and move things onto GitHub and use their Wiki and Discussions features up there. While this cannot stop spamming, we can reduce the resources needed to maintain the hosted systems. Please let me know what you think. Yao Wei
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