The state of insanedifficulty.com
#1
27 July 2016 - 09:04 AM
Old thread title: Just deleted +140 posts from a spambot.
This was manageable when they were scarce, but this is plain ridiculous. We can't keep the forums clean with something like this. And the users won't be able to use the forums with spam like this either. It was 3 entire pages of spam threads, by just one account.
So yeah. Please do something about this, because I can't keep deleting threads like this and pretending like this isn't a problem.
#2
27 July 2016 - 12:27 PM
No but really, this site sometimes just breaks for me for no reason because there's so much going on. That's honestly why I stopped trying to upload my "let's suck through 1.3" here because I got tired of fighting the site to actually let me post anything.
#3
27 July 2016 - 01:08 PM
140? SO MUCH BIG! Is that an actual number or an exaggeration? i saw 3 spam posts up last night but none of the admins were paying attention when I mentioned it. Do we have a captcha or something like that for account registration right now? If so, how are the bots getting through it?
#4
27 July 2016 - 05:28 PM
#5
27 July 2016 - 08:30 PM
Yeah, I follow your YT channel Augestein :]
No. It was no exaggeration. It was over 140 threads. There is a catpcha, but it's obviously not enough to keep the spambots out.
#6
09 August 2016 - 10:10 AM
ETA: To clarify, move this site to a new address, something like "old.insanedifficulty.com" or something of the like, so we can still cross-reference to it if needed. We don't want our posts to just vanish. No sir-ee. On the usual address we just place a new forum, one that's up to date with all the security fixes and all. We would have to register again and so on, but that ain't no big deal. I suggest this because it is the EASIEST way to get a working homepage. Complete migration would be better, but probably much more effort than any one would every want to put into it.
#7
12 August 2016 - 05:12 AM
Augestein (and anyone else posting lp's) - Why not post them in the relevant rooms in chat? They'll likely get more attention that way (so you're not fighting the site to look at them).
#8
12 August 2016 - 05:24 AM
Emmy, on 12 August 2016 - 05:12 AM, said:
Augestein (and anyone else posting lp's) - Why not post them in the relevant rooms in chat? They'll likely get more attention that way (so you're not fighting the site to look at them).
When the solution is "Don't use the website", something needs to be done. x]
I think the forum is a better place for posting LPs in concept, but with the current state... I'm inclined to agree with you, Emmy.
I haven't researched good options for a new website at all, but my thought would be to have an open-source and well-documented platform to make it as easy as possible to administrate. With a quick search I found something promising: Wordpress.org + Muut.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/muut/
https://muut.com/
ETA:
A second option I found that you can use with Wordpress is Discourse:
https://wordpress.or...s/wp-discourse/
http://www.discourse.org/
#9
12 August 2016 - 05:32 AM
I'm going to throw in with Kaffe that moving to something open-source that more of us can understand and have some control over maintaining would probably be a good idea.
#10
10 October 2016 - 03:26 AM
#11
10 October 2016 - 06:07 AM
#12
11 October 2016 - 12:24 PM
It was first ID chat, then the DDOS attacks, then the spambots / security issues, now users can't even register. All within a pretty short time span.
#13
11 October 2016 - 06:59 PM
Hart-Hunt, on 11 October 2016 - 12:24 PM, said:
It was first ID chat, then the DDOS attacks, then the spambots / security issues, now users can't even register. All within a pretty short time span.
I am with you here. I think the best option for everyone is for the site to be fixed, but its hard to say when that could happen. Arch and FFTA are barely around and i'm sure it would take time to do whatever fixes were needed if development on the site is far behind. I guess we don't have any control on if and when this could happen.
Another option would be to make a new site? That just seems to be hard to do overall. Is anyone around that could do it? Not to mention that it's going to take alot of time and that is something that someone would typically be paid for. Then you have hosting costs and probably some other things in there that I forgot.
This is a simplified way of looking at things but its just my first reaction to the situation. Would love to hear what other people think.
#14
11 October 2016 - 08:17 PM
#15
11 October 2016 - 10:36 PM
So, how does it actually look? What reasonable options do we have?
It's more like -- either we eventually abandon the site altogether and keep to discord only, or we get a new site for us.
It costs time and money, of course, but it is not HARD. I was thinking of throwing something together and have a few people test it out, just to see if I can create a decent alternative.
#16
15 October 2016 - 07:16 AM
#17
15 October 2016 - 09:14 AM
#18
15 October 2016 - 09:37 AM
Hart-Hunt, on 15 October 2016 - 07:16 AM, said:
Augestein, on 15 October 2016 - 09:14 AM, said:
Considering the lack of feedback from Arch, I was thinking a new site under a new URL. New face, new name, same ol' community. It's the pragmatic approach, not the sentimental.
#19
15 October 2016 - 10:55 AM
#20
15 October 2016 - 11:32 PM
Hart-Hunt, on 15 October 2016 - 10:55 AM, said:
Same, same, except that I don't see a URL change as a deal breaker.
ETA: I think you might confuse "same ol' community" with "same ol' faces".