puzzling.org users

The sites should look the same, but the backend will be a bit different.

It’s time for another laborious round of upgrading everyone’s WordPress installation.
Here’s a todo list, will cross things off as I do them:

Database for logoscopy
users
buglinks
mafioso
perpetuity
totalwhatever
abstraktn
daize
allovertheworld
gardiner.id.au
frideswide

I have removed the text-based browser links and replaced it with another version, elinks. You can still type links to run it. It is mostly the same: the major difference is that it can view secure (SSL) sites.

I’ve switched back to using Mailman for the puzzling.org mailing lists, rather than Ecartis. The latter had a lot of problems with mails being held for moderation and then not being approvable.

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 [...]

I’m testing WordPress, as you can see. It’s a little fiddly to set up, and there won’t be just one login interface any more, but it does have a rather pretty backend.

I’ve switched back to using Apache as the main webserver. Twisted Web still runs puzzling.org and andrew.puzzling.org because their backend requires it.