Spammers really take the fun out of wordpress

I switched on this thing called Akismet which might make life easier. If it doesn’t I think I will pack up and move to blogspot. Meanwhile here are some things that we should be doing next:

  • Upgrade to the latest TW. (I think we are one point release behind)
  • Let people remove their own sites. (Are you really sure? Are really truly sure you’re sure?)
  • Make ts sites “clean”. By that I mean stop doing that sneaky/lazy little hack to put the upload button in the the SidebarOptions shadow tiddler and the password box in options because it dissappears when you upgrade your TW code.
  • Restore the stats page. I think I can do it now with the tracking gif.
  • Fix up our site reports. Our old ones are too slow now since we have 6000 or so sites. I am currently counting sites using ls -l | wc -l.. :)
  • Learn about fastcgi and how we might use it to reduce load (someday maybe?)

Update:

Well Akismet is doing a pretty good job so far, thank goodness. And I thought of another one, probably ahead of all the rest:

  • Make an “I forgot my password” page. To make this effective we would probably have to ask for an email address at sign up.