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IP.Board Software Updates


Koby

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Upgraded the forum software from version 3.3.3 to 3.4.1 (a lot of releases in between). Most of the updates are with minor improvements and better spam management.

 

 

What's New in 3.4

Spam Monitoring Improvements

We've further enhanced the spam monitoring service in IP.Board 3.4.0 by adding a new option: "Do not permit the user to register an account". This reduces the amount of clean up you need to do after a new wave of attempted spam user sign-ups.

Furthermore, the "flag a member as a spammer" tool optionally deletes posted content rather than simply hiding them further reducing the amount of work needed to maintain your community. 

 

We have also totally reworked our spammer-detection logic behind the scenes to make the spam monitoring service detect spammers more quickly. In addition to internal changes, we are also looking at direct integration with services like Project Honey Pot and others. The great thing about the spam monitoring service is that we can make improvements on our side that are instantly beneficial to your community.

 

keyCAPTCHA Integration

IP.Board has made good use of the popular reCAPTCHA service to limit the number of "bots" that sign up to your forum with the intent of posting spam. The idea being that a slightly jumbled selection of letters is easy enough for a human to read but more difficult for a computer program. However, some do find that the CAPTCHA images are becoming increasingly complex to keep up with more intelligently written programs to defeat them.

 

KeyCAPTCHA takes a novel approach to this problem by using images instead of letters and numbers. You simply arrange a few large pieces of a very simple puzzle to complete an image.

 

You don't need to be completely accurate when building the image, either.

As with any updates, errors likely run rampant when dealing with edits and such. I noticed our skins were left fairly broken, so I removed them and tried to get the default working as best I could. Let me know if you find any such issues with the skin and such. I'd like to add some new skins again at a later time once we're sure everything is in working order.

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I don't have any huge issues with the skin that I've seen aside from the long box by the post number.  For a while the quick reply box had a white border, but that seemed to clear up during my wanderings.


 


Hopefully the captcha works--I've done a couple with the little picture puzzle and prefer it to the text ones.


 


Are there any changes to the Flag As Spammer thing?  I saw it said some bits are optional.


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I don't have any huge issues with the skin that I've seen aside from the long box by the post number.  

What? Can you show a screenshot?

Are there any changes to the Flag As Spammer thing? I saw it said some bits are optional.

Yeah mostly optional settings. I can make the Flag as Spammer feature auto delete all posts, comments, messages, and ban the account. I was a little weary of setting that option though because it doesn't give me the ability to select which groups can use that option to do that.... and well a single mishap/misuse could easily wipe the forum. If I could make sure only smod or higher could use that, then sure it'd be a nice idea and really make things go faster with getting rid of spam.
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Seems changing the SEO method to path has messed with the way I had set the url's of the description icons thus breaking them ALL that are located on sub-forums as they end up with an address such as: http://forums.kametsu.com/index.php/forum/13-anime-and-manga/images/description-icons/images/description-icons/bleach.png<br /><br />So I'll have to edit that.

As for the other thing, I'm guessing skins require another image now which is missing from the image set.

This is what seems to be missing: /public/style_images/deviant3/icon_share.png

*EDIT* Is it just me or is clicking "save changes" when editing a post, not making the edit box go away.;..

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The new spam management tool must be a great addition as there seems to be an increasing amount of spammers/bots on the forum, well thats the way I see it through my eyes. I have had no issues as of yet with the forum skin or come across any issues with the forum.


 


I just editied my post to see if hitting the Save Changes button did anything werid on my end, but it seems its normal on my end.


 


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It's not a big issue but I just noticed when entering some threads that the thread icons have toruble loading on my end, not sure if this is for everyone but I thought I would bring it up and see. Just thought I would make mention of it.


 



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The only problem I'm still having is when I quote somebody.  When I do a quote post is doesn't show what the

when editing...so I'm not sure if I've actually quoted someone til I post the post.  It's a very minor detail thou.  So...anyways.  It would be great having new skins.  :)
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It's not a big issue but I just noticed when entering some threads that the thread icons have toruble loading on my end, not sure if this is for everyone but I thought I would bring it up and see. Just thought I would make mention of it.

 

Seems changing the SEO method to path has messed with the way I had set the url's of the description icons thus breaking them ALL that are located on sub-forums as they end up with an address such as: http://forums.kametsu.com/index.php/forum/13-anime-and-manga/images/description-icons/images/description-icons/bleach.png<br /><br />So I'll have to edit that.

Yes, it's broken for me too, haha.

The quote thing is pretty weird. You can see the tags fine in the raw editing mode and it pops up okay in the preview, but when you toggle editing modes again, it doesn't show properly.  Screen below.

 

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It's not a big issue but I just noticed when entering some threads that the thread icons have toruble loading on my end, not sure if this is for everyone but I thought I would bring it up and see. Just thought I would make mention of it.

 

>Seems changing the SEO method to path has messed with the way I had set the url's of the description icons thus breaking them ALL that are located on sub-forums as they end up with an address such as: http://forums.kametsu.com/index.php/forum/13-anime-and-manga/images/description-icons/images/description-icons/bleach.png<br /><br />So I'll have to edit that.

Yes, it's broken for me too, haha.

The quote thing is pretty weird. You can see the tags fine in the raw editing mode and it pops up okay in the preview, but when you toggle editing modes again, it doesn't show properly.  Screen below.

 

moarscreen.png

 

Yeah I noticed the quote thing to though didn't know wether it was a new feature that when you quote it doesn't need to show the quote tags any more or if it was an error. It is a little weird though and it can be annoying.

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It's not a big issue but I just noticed when entering some threads that the thread icons have toruble loading on my end, not sure if this is for everyone but I thought I would bring it up and see. Just thought I would make mention of it.

 

>Seems changing the SEO method to path has messed with the way I had set the url's of the description icons thus breaking them ALL that are located on sub-forums as they end up with an address such as: http://forums.kametsu.com/index.php/forum/13-anime-and-manga/images/description-icons/images/description-icons/bleach.png<br /><br />So I'll have to edit that.

Yes, it's broken for me too, haha.

The quote thing is pretty weird. You can see the tags fine in the raw editing mode and it pops up okay in the preview, but when you toggle editing modes again, it doesn't show properly.  Screen below.

 

moarscreen.png

 

Yes, that is exactly what I was talking about.  I wasn't sure if I was explaining this properly.  I'm glad I was understood.

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<img src="http://forums.kametsu.com/public/style_images/deviant3/icon_share.png">

 

 

This is still causing some issues inside my Chrome browser on posts.

 

Also will try to track down some more, but its starting to look browser specific as well

 

Like the IME for the reply box took a hit XD. Still works just needs the code updated to display it correctly

 

So far I noticed the code and quote wrapper have issues

 

 

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What broswer were you using at the time, cause that is one heck of a php error in my book

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