I’m upgrading (slowly, painfully) everyone’s installation of WordPress to version 1.5. This will change the layout of some people’s sites, if they had the old green+brown WordPress default look.
I’m not sure whether this will have any further effect on the comment/trackback spam issue, but running the latest version of any given software is usually a [...]
puzzling.org WordPress installations got a huge whack of comment spam over the last few months, much of which slipped by me unnoticed, sadly. I’m going through and deleting as much of it as I can find, and I’m disabling tracebacks on WordPress setups (I know, about six months after every sensible WordPress admin did).
I’ve just upgraded the system to Ubuntu 5.04: Hoary Hedgehog, which became stable earlier today. I uninstalled a bunch of seemingly useless junk, please let me know if I broke anything.
There was a long puzzling.org outage on Thursday 31st March/Friday 1st April due to Linode being down. The site came back up early Friday morning. Further details are on the linode forums.