SMF 2 forum software upgrade / new look

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Amazing. Funnily enough, the spammer registrations spiked with 400% in June and have since doubled again after that. If I didn't know any better, I could swear that we've been targeted for some reason. It's either that, or the Captcha we were using at the time was defeated.

I also have a huge problem with spam... Captcha has also been defeated a few times...

I now use a IP blocker on my site that calls one of the projects out there (think its project honeypot). Works wonders.

[kay]

Amazing. Funnily enough, the spammer registrations spiked with 400% in June and have since doubled again after that. If I didn't know any better, I could swear that we've been targeted for some reason. It's either that, or the Captcha we were using at the time was defeated.

I'm fairly certain the old captcha was in some way broken. Not that it was OCR'd, mind, but there must have been some kind of attack to render it useless. I'll see if I can figure out from the Apache logs what the rate of verification question failed attempts is - maybe that's made the bigger difference.

I tried activating the reCAPTCHA plugin for SMF, but it's broken I'll keep checking for new releases. Although if it ain't broken (current captcha), maybe there's no need to fix it.

[Cowboy]

Another really big reason why I moved from SMF to IPB was because of the spam problem. Unfortunately it's inherent in Open Source Software and probably their main source of income. Think Akismet.

[kay]

How does the software licensing terms have any impact on the spam problem? Any public service will have the same problems. And clearly they've improved things a lot in SMF 2, so happy days

[kHz]

NICE! 
I like the new look.

[Cowboy]

Just relaying my experiences. I think that OSS tends to attract more attention from no-gooders than paid proprietary software. Doesn't have anything to do with the license, per se.

[dean]

nice being able to see pics on BB now

[Atjan]

Generally looks great! Only thing I don't like is the "started by......." under the thread titles - makes it difficult to read - preferred when they were in separate columns. Just my 5c! Doogle

+1

Nice new, up-to-date look.

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I'm fairly certain the old captcha was in some way broken. Not that it was OCR'd, mind, but there must have been some kind of attack to render it useless. I'll see if I can figure out from the Apache logs what the rate of verification question failed attempts is - maybe that's made the bigger difference.

I tried activating the reCAPTCHA plugin for SMF, but it's broken I'll keep checking for new releases. Although if it ain't broken (current captcha), maybe there's no need to fix it.

With the older Captchas, once the spammers get hold of the session ID they can have a field day doing whatever they like...

reCaptcha is really good (once you can get to to work)...

Spam is a real bane, considering the emails that I got (and do still sometimes get), are totally meaningless.

Another really big reason why I moved from SMF to IPB was because of the spam problem. Unfortunately it's inherent in Open Source Software and probably their main source of income. Think Akismet.

The main problem I have had with openSource CMS (Joomla) has been that you have to really keep a watch out for patches and security notices... If you don't patch your install within 12 hours then all sorts of bots and script kiddies try to take advantage...

AFAIK the SMF developers are pretty well organised and have a strong leadership...

BTW, I am really happy that they have kept 'imode', and it improved on it at the same time... (i.e. http://www.avforums.co.za/index.php?imode ). The option to "Go to full version" is a nice edition to the software for viewing full posts with images.

[dean]

ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS KARMA THING IS .

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ANYONE KNOW WHAT THIS KARMA THING IS .

All caps is bad karma... read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette#Common_characteristics

Karma mode - Karma is a feature that shows the popularity of a member. Members, if allowed, can 'applaud' or 'smite' other members, which is how their popularity is calculated. The following options are available:

http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=104.0

[NoSnipeLimit]

i see the new look isn't as phone friendly as the previous one. Scaling doesnt seem to be happening. Not a magor issue, more an annoyance.

[ByronH]

+1
Pleasantly surprised by the updated forum, thanks Kay!

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i see the new look isn't as phone friendly as the previous one. Scaling doesnt seem to be happening. Not a magor issue, more an annoyance.

I use the 'imode' variant and that has definitely been improved with the 'view full version' option available...

Try it: http://www.avforums.co.za/index.php?imode

[kamikazi]

Anyone else also having trouble accessing the forum through Tapatalk? It causes my app to crash and be closed when I try opening a post?