Comment paradise lost
In the process of cleaning out spam I accidentally removed a bunch of valid comments. (Bad UI, Typo! Stupid human, Brian!) Sigh. I dug through the default sqlite database for this thing and it looks like the comments were legitimately removed, not just marked for deletion. The database isn’t backed up anywhere. Clearly I am a super genius. If anyone has any bright ideas, let me know in the comments, which I will try not to subsequently delete.
Maybe Wordpress is everything it’s cracked up to be. Typo has been a bit of a disappointment. It crashes occasionally too, and I’ve glanced at the logs but I haven’t nailed down the reason yet.
Waitin' for the spam to come rolling in
Aaron says, in the comments:
You’d better put a captcha or something on here soon. I predict that you can survive about 15 days without it before each and every post is overrun with spam comments.
Call it an experiment. I started this blog last Thursday. If by next Friday I don’t have bot spam then… well, I guess I’ll continue to be lazy. If I start to see some then I’ll know that the world has discovered my existence and put up a CAPTCHA.
I’m using Typo as my blog software, which is written in Ruby on Rails, which I know well, so theoretically I could go in and hack together my own solution. I wrote a math CAPTCHA some time ago as an experiment; maybe it’s time to dust it off.