Regarding the forums, I've upgraded phpBB system and upgraded reCAPTCHA it is using to v3 just now. Please see if it has been improved.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 6:55 PM Yao Wei <m...@lxde.org> wrote: > 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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