Monsters from the Id 怪獣大悪脳

So, are you liking MT-B 2.0e?

We haven't installed it yet, mostly because we've only gotten one spam in the last two weeks (renamed the mt-comments.cgi which I'd done before, but never did it have such an amazing effect) and I don't want to have troubles when I upgrade to MT 3.1 at the end of the month and I figure if it's not really necessary, I'd rather not put any extra strain on the server than I need to because we're already right at our limit to the amount of space we can take up (100 megs of NWN screenshots, yikes).

I can't wait for 3.1, though, because we are going to switch over to a lot of non-static pages. The host says that whenever we do a rebuild, MT decided to grab 100% of the processor and he isn't happy about it, so I figure that the less rebuilding we have to do, the better and it's mainly the front page that needs to be static. The rest of the pages can be dynamically generated and it'll be fine.

Jay is so nice to have released MT-B 2.0e, though, and apparently even though it looks amazing, there's bunches of new features that haven't made it in yet. MT 3.1 with MT-B 2.0 is going to be a powerful combination.

I'm still unsure if we want to go go unmoderated comments, though. I'm thinking that MT-B can just cut down on the amount of spam that we have to moderate when it starts picking up again. I hate when they slip through and with moderation, I know nothing will ever slip through. That's just for us, though. I never noticed a drop in the number of comments when we went to moderated comments, but again, that's just us.

I think the thing we need now is a way for people to subscribe to the comments for a post, because we have posts that are still being commented on weeks after they've dropped off the front page. I'm really afraid of using email, though, because I don't want any hacker to get ahold of that script and using it to spam people. That's my worst nightmare. It was bad enough when the last email virus started spreading itself using our email address, even though we had nothing to do with it: it was just people who had us in their address book.

Sometimes this is all too complicated, but at least it's less complicated than building a persistent world. :)

Hope you are doing well, sorry to hear about your iPod. :( You don't think it's the battery maybe?

Love,

Hanna