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- Mon Apr 27, 2020 2:56 pm
- Forum: General OOC
- Topic: test
- Replies: 3
- Views: 827
Re: test
No worries, if it goes off again just let me know here and I'll take another look.
- Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:24 pm
- Forum: General OOC
- Topic: test
- Replies: 3
- Views: 827
Re: test
Give it another try now. You triggered a security rule.
- Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:11 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Test Post
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1344
Re: Test Post
Anti-spam plugin went haywire! Disabled for now, hopefully the bots won't notice!
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:17 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Don't know if anyone is still here, buuut...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4082
Re: Don't know if anyone is still here, buuut...
If you can give me the time that you have tried to post and had issues then I can take a look and try to ease the anti-bot restrictions. Sorry for the annoyance!
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:39 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Don't know if anyone is still here, buuut...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4082
Re: Don't know if anyone is still here, buuut...
I check in weekly too!
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 4:39 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Unable to create new topic in Spiral of Worlds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 29415
Re: Unable to create new topic in Spiral of Worlds
Gone! I installed some anti-spam tools and it's possible that the software thought your message was spam. Sorry about that.
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 2:59 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Damn Bots
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8585
Re: Damn Bots
Haha, let's hope you don't need a new one but if you do you can submit the expense to Neuge! Maybe that'll get him to answer my emails... 

- Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:42 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Damn Bots
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8585
Re: Damn Bots
So far not a single user has registered since I enabled the Q&A, and the Akismet plugin stopped the only other bot that registered before I made the change. Hopefully I didn't make the Q&A too difficult, but I think it's pretty easy! Hopefully that'll be the end of the bots.. If not, I'll tu...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:50 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Damn Bots
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8585
Re: Damn Bots
Yes, we can make it so that the first post always go to the moderator queue and then you can manually approve. Subsequent posts will be allowed. We can even make that number > 1 so that the first n posts must be approved. It does look like Akismet did its job so maybe this is OK for now. I see one c...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:00 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Damn Bots
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8585
Re: Damn Bots
Okay, I also installed the Akismet anti-spam plugin, and set it to add potential spammers to the "Newly registered users" group by default. That will prevent them from posting without moderation -- but it should also prevent those posts from going through as Akismet has a large database of...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:31 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Damn Bots
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8585
Re: Damn Bots
Ugh, I can't tell if it's better or worse. I saw two spam posts this morning. Another thing we could do is restrict the boards that new users can post to. That would make it easy to spot the bots but slightly inconvenient for legitimate users. Definitely more work for the moderators. But I'm not sur...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 5:58 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Damn Bots
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8585
Re: Damn Bots
I just added reCAPTCHA to the forum. Hopefully that will help keep the bots away.
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 6:40 pm
- Forum: General OOC
- Topic: what happened to the board?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5817
Re: what happened to the board?
I think I did it. Let me know if it didn't work. Note that mods will still be able to see them, but regular users shouldn't.
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:31 am
- Forum: General OOC
- Topic: what happened to the board?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5817
Re: what happened to the board?
Sorry guys (and gals), we should be good now. I had to upgrade the software due to a vulnerability in the old version, and unfortunately the old theme was no longer compatible with version 3.1. We'll have to work up a new theme compatible with the new version. Typically a 3.0 to 3.1 release wouldn't...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:25 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Forum Outage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5081
Forum Outage
Howdy - We experienced a brief forum outage this evening. The server ran out of disk space because you guys write too much! Well, the real reason was that the access log for the Web server was over 2GB and hadn't been rotated in over a year. I took care of that, but the database was corrupt. I ran a...
- Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Board Maintenance
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1957
Re: Board Maintenance
All set, thanks for your patience!
- Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:51 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: PHPB3 Modifications
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3959
Re: PHPB3 Modifications
The problem I had with mods is that they are a pain in the ass to deal with when board upgrades happen. Maybe less so with phpBB3, but it was real bad with phpBB2.
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:01 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Downtime July 2011
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3762
Downtime July 2011
Howdy folks - My apologies for the downtime over the past few days. I was under the impression that something had gone wrong with the boards -- perhaps an exploit, or some such -- and took precautionary measures by disabling the board. I was unable to look further into the issue until today, after s...
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:39 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: accessing the forums from my mobile
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4074
Re: accessing the forums from my mobile
Hey, that's me!
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:42 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: New Titles and Avatar's thread!
- Replies: 204
- Views: 66074
Re: New Titles and Avatar's thread!
Uploaded to misc.
- Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:43 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: New Titles and Avatar's thread!
- Replies: 204
- Views: 66074
Re: New Titles and Avatar's thread!
Uploaded to Misc.
- Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:59 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Downtime
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2892
Re: Downtime
Our server has now moved to the West coast (I left my old job and am now paying for a VPS.) I've also upgraded the forum software. New features include an updated CAPTCHA generator, which should help keep spammers out. if you notice anything odd, please let me know.
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:31 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Downtime
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2892
Re: Downtime
The board will be going down in 15 minutes (23:45 EST.)
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Downtime
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2892
Downtime
The forums will be down at some point later this evening for maintenance.
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 5:56 am
- Forum: General OOC
- Topic: Choose a Theme
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12440
Re: Choose a Theme
As do I.
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:54 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: PM Allotment
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3499
Re: PM Allotment
Looks like I'd be loosing out here. Balsa, what would you get me?Mirrodin2nd wrote:I wasn't saying that I was going to get Goober anything. Just that he'd be my valentine.
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:46 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: PM Allotment
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3499
Re: PM Allotment
Changed to unlimited. If this becomes a problem, we'll address it. Please remember to clear out any messages that you don't need.
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:01 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
Re: Avatars and Titles
I've uploaded it to misc.
- Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:44 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
Re: Avatars and Titles
I've enabled it for now, seeing as how I've not given Neuge or Jag FTP access.
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:37 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
Re: Avatars and Titles
I do believe that you can upload your own avatar. Give it a shot and let me know if it works.
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:53 pm
- Forum: General OOC
- Topic: Choose a Theme
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12440
Re: Choose a Theme
I'm a fan of TwilightBB, but those icons are a bit goofy.
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:26 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
Re: Avatars and Titles
Welcome.
- Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:12 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Technical Issues
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2597
Re: Technical Issues
2009-01-31 15:49:09: (network_write.c.55) write failed: Resource temporarily unavailable 9 2009-01-31 15:49:09: (connections.c.606) connection closed: write failed on fd 9 For those interested in the technical explanation, sendfile, the system call used by lighttpd to send a fully rendered page back...
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:39 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Post Deletion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3617
Re: Post Deletion
Done.
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:37 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Major Downtime
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10444
Re: Major Downtime
As you've probably noticed, in the process of the move, I've taken it upon myself to upgrade from phpBB2 to phpBB3. This may break a few things, but I have deemed it necessary. phpBB2 has many security holes and is no longer supported by the developers. The portal page is no longer available as it w...
- Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:59 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Major Downtime
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10444
Major Downtime
The board will be going down sometime during the next few days as the server changes physical location. We are currently in the process of moving our hosted solutions to a datacenter in Boston, and the server that hosts this site is coming along. Depending on when our Dell shipment gets in, the site...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:14 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:09 pm
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:14 am
- Forum: Contact your Mod/Admin
- Topic: Avatars and Titles
- Replies: 287
- Views: 40661