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Projectpier.org website upgrade complete

By Jon - Posted on March 13th, 2011
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We've just completed an upgrade of the software that runs the projectpier.org website. Please report any problems with the website to me through my contact form.

-Jon

Nice!
Submitted by keep_organized on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 12:51.

Good job! The site looks much nicer!

Thanks for your hard work!
Sean

I found something awesome
Submitted by Ankhkare on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 11:46.

I found something awesome about this on google and I want u to check it out.

indeed
Submitted by de666 on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 14:22.

looks very nice

p.s.
captcha and spam filter make very hard to leave comments
i don't want to work as ocr device over and over again
is it intended?

We'll be reviewing that in
Submitted by Jon on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 02:21.

We'll be reviewing that in the next couple weeks and making it as easy as possible, but there remains some need, we do get a lot of comment spam.

good to know
Submitted by de666 on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 17:29.

at the very least please make captcha easier
it seems i'm going to become blind while figuring out what's on that rorschach test pictures
no offence

my preference
Submitted by keep_organized on Mon, 03/14/2011 - 19:50.

Personally I'm a fan of the captcha used by Fast Secure Contact Form (http://www.fastsecurecontactform.com/); it is what I use for my contact forms (I use the PHP script). That captcha seems like a nice balance between user friendliness and spam protection. I like the idea of the reCaptcha service (regarding doing ocr on old texts), but I too find the reCaptcha captcha's to be a big pain.

That's my 2 cents. :-)
Sean

Missing Attachments Fixed
Submitted by Jon on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 03:51.

Since the upgrade we've been missing attachments to comments. This has been resolved. Existing comment attachments are now visible and new comments may include attachments.

Website - Forum Spam
Submitted by bluesky on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:24.

Hi Jon,
first of all, thx a lot for your work on the website. I noticed that the forum is "attacked" by spam mailers quite a lot in the recent weeks. Someone thankfully cleans it up quite fast, but the bad thing is, that the recent post sequence is messed up by those spammer comments. Is there any way to handle this as well, to keep a better overview on recent activities,
thx, Bluesky

Spam
Submitted by phpfreak on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 14:04.

It is usually me that cleans up. I check a couple of times per day.

What went wrong with the nike air spam is that after deleting the user that made those posts all related posts were deleted but the title remained... Unexpected for me.

I have to dig into the Drupal database to fix this. Bear with me for the time being