As reCaptcha and security questions are no longer effective, and a secret password is frustrating for new users, I've now added CleanTalk anti-spam to the forums. We'll see how well this works, but it should be completely unobtrusive.
If any legitimate would-be users are having trouble registering (or posting), please reach out on the Lemmings Forums Discord or the #lix IRC channel on QuakeNet.
That would explain my sudden log out then.
Quote from: GigaLem on August 13, 2025, 10:45:46 AMThat would explain my sudden log out then.
That one would've been due to a slight screw-up while installing it. If anyone saw the "site is down to upgrade to 2.1.6" message during it, this was also the result of the aforementioned screwup.
So far, I haven't received any reports of registrations / posts being outright blocked when they shouldn't be. If anyone does encounter this, please let me know. I'm also reviewing the logs periodically to look for anything that was filtered but shouldn't have been, and haven't seen any.
We did have one case where a legitimate post got flagged for moderator review. This post was definitely not spam, and came from a long-time member of the forum. Nonetheless, I can see why an overly-cautious filter may have flagged this post. There's only been a handful of posts since the filter was installed, so it's hard to get a general idea of the trend of how often it will flag things - if it's frequently flagging legitimate posts I might need to rethink things (though perhaps the first thing to try here is seeing whether I can modify the plugin so that it only flags posts from newer users), if this seems to be a one-off or at least an uncommon occurance then I don't think it's a huge problem if a moderator has to approve a post every once in a while.