I just upgraded bsdblogs.droso.org to WordPressMU 1.0.rc4. So far, I haven’t seen any regressions and SpamKarma2 seems to be working fine now (which is quite cool since I’ve heard about committers getting spam on their blogs).
Now that bsdblogs is being much more stable than ever before, I think we can add some shiny plugins. I’ve already installed K2 and some del.icio.us and digg-it plugins. Drop me an email if you have a theme or a plugin you’d like me to add.
Ok, it seems I could find an all-in-one solution to avoid spam getting into my blog. I was wrong, there’s one. It’s called SpamKarma.
I’ve been using it for some days now, and no spam showed up, comment or trackback. I received a digest with all rejected comments, just to make sure there are no false positives.
The plugin is highly configurable and works with WordPress MU, which is quite cool 
I hope I won’t have to try another plugin.
Ok, so it seems everything worked fine with the first plugin I installed some weeks ago and suddenly I started getting approximatively 10 spams a day.
I was about to set a CAPTCHA plugin when I noticed they weren’t real comments, but trackbacks instead, so I went to wp-plugins.net and found a plugin to prevent trackback-spam. So it’s enabled, we’ll see if it works.
I’ve been a bit bothered by various spams I’ve receive these last few weeks on my blog so I finally decided to do something.
Usually, you’ll see people using CAPTCHA plugins that requires you to type some letters/numbers or perform a simple operation. While this isn’t so annoying, I wanted to test something that doesn’t require any user interaction and found this fine plugin (Hashcash) which is based on some javascript magic. I’ve been using it for the past two weeks and it worked fine so far (I don’t have comments, but I have no spam either, so that’s fine with me).
Some minutes ago, I noticed that Typo used 80% of my CPU when it had to generate a new page so I decided to migrate to WordPress.
As it is advertised on the website, the installation doesn’t take more than five minutes. I just had to import old entries from Typo and I was done.
Now it’s fast and shiny, though Typo is sexier with its Ajax stuff.
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