Topic: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Started by: Clinton R. Nixon
Started on: 1/9/2007
Board: Site Discussion
On 1/9/2007 at 5:45am, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Hi, all!
I upgraded the forums on January 9th, which should really help with the spam nonsense we've had. There's no new features I know of to announce at this time, except some limitations on private messages. You can only send 20 an hour for now, and that may change (for the better), but it's a spam prevention feature.
If you notice a problem with the upgrade, please respond here. Thanks!
- Clinton R. Nixon
On 1/9/2007 at 12:13pm, Ron Edwards wrote:
Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Yay Clinton!
On 1/9/2007 at 2:56pm, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Hey, new thing you may see: the number of user accounts is rapidly falling. The upgrade has allowed me to figure out what accounts have been registered by spammers and not used for normal posting. I am eliminating these, and we've already dropped 2000 accounts, which is staggering.
I may remove all accounts that were registered more than, say, 6 months ago, and haven't posted or interacted, as these are pretty much either guests or spammers, but I'm examining all the repercussions of that before I do it.
On 1/9/2007 at 3:00pm, crowyhead wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Might just be my own network stuff, but the forums seem to be loading much, much more quickly. Woo!
Thanks, Clinton.
On 1/9/2007 at 3:35pm, Miskatonic wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Thank you, Clinton.
On 1/11/2007 at 3:09am, Noon wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
You have skill, Clinton!
On 1/11/2007 at 5:53am, Chris Goodwin wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Clinton wrote:
Hey, new thing you may see: the number of user accounts is rapidly falling. The upgrade has allowed me to figure out what accounts have been registered by spammers and not used for normal posting. I am eliminating these, and we've already dropped 2000 accounts, which is staggering.
I may remove all accounts that were registered more than, say, 6 months ago, and haven't posted or interacted, as these are pretty much either guests or spammers, but I'm examining all the repercussions of that before I do it.
What counts as interacting?
(This is probably the first time I've posted in like eight months, which is why I'm curious.)
On 1/11/2007 at 11:52am, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Chris,
I meant someone who has never posted or even logged in with a verified account. I've actually eliminated those already, and hope that I've shaken out the last of the spammer accounts, although a few probably still remain.
On 1/11/2007 at 1:06pm, Graham Walmsley wrote:
RE: Re: Upgrade occurred on Jan 9th
Just a quick problem-and-fix:
After the update, The Forge stopped letting me log in, when I used Firefox. I was redirected to a page which said that my browser was set to refuse cookies (which it wasn't). Internet Explorer logged in fine.
I've fixed this by deleting the Forge cookie (by going to Options, selecting the Cookies tab, clicking View Cookies, selecting the indie-rpgs.com cookie and clicking Remove Cookie). After doing that, it signed in fine.
Hope that's of use to someone else.
Graham