nodalpoint.org - Site Maintenance Shortly - Comments

Upgrading to Drupal 5.x and

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:13:25 -0400

Upgrading to Drupal 5.x and adding the spam filter module literally saved my sanity. What you don't see as a user of the site is the endless spam accounts and postings created. It is never ending, and as far as I can tell, not automated. The fact that it is not automated scares me in a loose-all-hope-in-humanity kind of way. What it means is that there are people out there who do nothing more than register for bogus accounts on sites like nodalpoint and then try to post spam; you can literally see it happen in real time.

Anyway, I'll try to tweak the word list in the filter, as it seems to have been skewed by one or two spam comments. So if your comment doesn't get through, don't be alarmed, I monitor the site daily and I will reverse it. In the mean time I've added some users to the trusted user role, this will allow by pass of the spam filter, and admin access to a few areas of the site (content moderation for example).

spam filter

dalloliogm — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:15:09 -0400

The spam filter is really strong... it seems to block all the entries with too many blank lines.
Can you reduce it a bit?

After running the indexer

Greg — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:11:20 -0400

After running the indexer manually search seems to be working.

It seems that search is

Greg — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:29:02 -0400

It seems that search is broken on the wiki, something to do with indexing changes in the upgraded version. Added to the todo list...

Pretty smooth upgrade

Neil — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:57:37 -0400

Looks good on the whole, no issues for me. I also see the wiki TOC format problem. The wiki "recent changes" list is a lot shorter than it used to be (2 items), not a big deal.

The Drupal/dokuwiki login fix is great, we've needed this for a while.

The wiki template for the

Greg — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:07:53 -0400

The wiki template for the table of contents is broken in my browser (Firefox/Linux). Added to the to do list...

Site Maintenance Shortly

Greg — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13:31 -0400

I plan to do some site maintenance (including the wiki), starting in about 20 min or so and I expect it will talk an hour (probably less). So if you're planning to post or edit something (unlikely) hold off for a while. I'll be on IRC (irc.freenode.net, #nodalpoint) if you're interested to know what's going on in real time.

Update: Both the Drupal and wiki upgrades are complete. Read on for details...