bbPress Trac: now with 99% less spam!
Many of you will remember the dark days of the bbPress Trac. For several months it was getting hit by spammers multiple times a day.
Matt put a stop to new spam a couple of months ago, but there was still a huge amount of garbage blocking up our ticketing system. All of that is now gone. Well, I’m sure I missed some here and there.
This daunting task would have been completely impossible were it not for the following three things.
- The Ticket Delete Plugin for trac by Noah Kantrowitz. The interface is clunky (limitations in the Trac plugin API?), but it gets the job done. Kills spam dead.
- Jesse Ruderman’s Check Range Greasemonkey script. This thing is awesome. Move over, sliced bread.
- Tom Preuss. Many people helped reduce spammer damage by closing tickets and so forth, but Tom gets the gold star. His faithful invalidating of spam tickets through the darkest of bbPress’ days made searching for and eliminating trash a piece of cake. Many thanks to Tom and the others who stepped in.
Trying to figure out how to report bugs or problems with the software.
There is a dev maillist, sure, but a support forum? A FAQ?
Something?
Comment by Roland Hesz — September 21, 2006 @ 8:52 am
Great!
Can we have tag support in the next release?
Thx
Keep up the good work
Comment by Null — September 21, 2006 @ 10:41 am
That ahd to be tag
Comment by Null — September 21, 2006 @ 10:42 am
Omg!! image tag I ment
sorry for the spawn, but cannot edit
Comment by Null — September 21, 2006 @ 10:43 am
Roland Hesz,
You can post tickets on the trac system: http://bbpress.automattic.com/timeline
You need an account on the WordPress support forums to do so.
Comment by mdawaffe — September 22, 2006 @ 5:38 pm
When is the expected full release of bbpress going to be available?
Will there be import tools for various forums so someone can import from phpbb or vbulletin or such?
Comment by Jonathan Dingman — October 3, 2006 @ 8:53 pm
What happened to my RSS feed! Now it only gives recent comments not posts…
Comment by Joe — October 6, 2006 @ 3:29 pm
@Joe:
perhaps because there haven’t been any new posts?
Comment by jazzle — October 7, 2006 @ 7:48 am