Sorry for the spam... we're on it.

bonemap

Damn! These people are relentless!

It is a massive SPAM wall with a spike of over 100+ entries - can't be a nice thing to wake up to!

mark

Dear All,

We're actively testing solutions. We just don't want them to break the whole forum, so we need to be methodical about. Thanks again for your patience.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Woland

May as well capitalize on the situation though, right?

CitizenJoe

@Woland Funny.
But the spam thing is awful. I don't envy you...

bonemap

Hi

It is that time of day again. The Asian spam tsunami...

mark

Dear All,

@Michel and our programmer Tobias have installed tools that will hopefully end the daily flood of spam. Thanks for your patience while we implemented this. We wanted to make sure nothing horrible would happen to the forum as a result.

Best Wishes,
Mark

bonemap

@mark said:

installed tools that will hopefully end the daily flood of spam

Hmmm!

mark

@bonemap

Well, we installed ReCaptcha and it seems to have had little effect. @Michel just installed another tool. Let's see if that does anything.

What a pain in the ass!

Thanks everyone for your patience.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Skulpture

That was a crazy few days.... I can tell you all this; I DONT feel like going to a university in China!

mark

Well, first morning in a week or so that I haven't woken up to spam. Maybe we nailed it. Fingers crossed. ;-)

Best Wishes,
Mark

bonemap

@mark said:

we nailed it

Holding my breath

mark

@bonemap

Well, when I wrote that I didn't know that @Michel had switch to manually approving all applicants, which means extra work for us of course. NodeBB has a better solution in their latest version, which still requires manual approval but will make it easier to manage. We'll be upgrading this weekend hopefully. In any case, the Michel's actions have stopped the flood.

Best Wishes,
Mark

bonemap

@mark said:

which still requires manual approval

So no silver lining yet