On Sun, 2022-01-30 at 21:21 +0800, Yao Wei wrote: > 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.
Thanks, that was quick! Today, "only" 3 new spammers. We'll see. > > 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 ___ Vaccines for everyone! Donate to the COVAX alliance: https://gogiveone.org/ (WHO) https://www.gavi.org/donate (Gavi)
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