XHBB Very Alpha Testing

[conradk]

The goal is to make controls for which the end user doesn't have to do a single thing.

Exactly, to the user it should look as if there is nothing anti-spam going on.

Most of these methods would work, but look into the long term and spam bots may adapt to the style of my form. For now we can rely on it being non-standard, but at some point that will stop working.

Sure, but with IPV6, you'll have much more trouble making accurate IP blacklists as well, as spammers will be able to get almost unlimited IPs ... or at least I think (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know all that much about IPV6).

[jacek]

In all honesty, there will be spam bots without some sort of spam protection;

I didn't say no spam protection, I said no spam protection that is a pain for the user

Sure, but with IPV6, you'll have much more trouble making accurate IP blacklists as well, as spammers will be able to get almost unlimited IPs ... or at least I think (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know all that much about IPV6).

True, but that is also fairly true with IPv4, plus they would use servers, which have fixed IPs anyway.

[Dylan]

Well obviously there is spam protection in place; my implication was not meant to be none, but rather, none of the standard methods.

[jacek]

http://betterphp.co.uk/XHBB/?page=view_ ... p=1#post63



This has been a bug for a while, no it is squashed

[conradk]

Just registered. Once I tried to login, I got redirect to ?page=index... there was some kind of an infinite loop echoing this error messages.

Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /www-urs/jk1/betterphp.co.uk/betterphp.co.uk/XHBB/core/lib/xhbb_database.class.inc.php on line 46

On page=login, same thing:

Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in /www-urs/jk1/betterphp.co.uk/betterphp.co.uk/XHBB/core/lib/xhbb_database.class.inc.php on line 46

[jacek]

I don't see that...

Strange bug, *tries to investigate*

[jacek]

okay, that is fixed now, I forgot I made a database change too with the most recent version (for timezone support)

[conradk]

Another bug:

When the signature is set once, you can't delete it completely. I added 'Conra.dk' to it. When I tried to delete it, it wouldn't update.

[jacek]

Should be fixed.

Off Topic: We use the same hosting company

[conradk]

Should be fixed.

Off Topic: We use the same hosting company

I use OVH only for my domains. I hate their hosting control Panel. But I do know you said you use Kimsufi, which is like the self managed OVH ded servers, right ? I wanted to take such a server, but I'm just not sure I'd be able to handle everything (security wise and stuff :s).

[jacek]

But I do know you said you use Kimsufi, which is like the self managed OVH ded servers, right ?

Yeah it's the name they sell their budget servers under. You get slightly less hardware safety, like no RAID so no protection against data loss and no management unless things go wrong that you can't control.

In terms of security, if you keep the server up to date there is not that much that can go wrong if nobody except you has access.

[conradk]

But I do know you said you use Kimsufi, which is like the self managed OVH ded servers, right ?

Yeah it's the name they sell their budget servers under. You get slightly less hardware safety, like no RAID so no protection against data loss and no management unless things go wrong that you can't control.

In terms of security, if you keep the server up to date there is not that much that can go wrong if nobody except you has access.

Oh, ok, well I might just try it out sometime then