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- Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:25 am
- Forum: phpBB 3.0.x Support
- Topic: Spam Bots & phpBB3?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 101647
Re: Spam Bots & phpBB3?
There's a Facebook game I play "Mousehunt" the dev's have implmented a new captcha on it that I think atm is quite fool-proof. it will display 3 random shapes, and within those shapes, random numbers in random positions at random colours. Then has a prompt to enter the numbers that appear ...
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:00 am
- Forum: phpBB 3.0.x Support
- Topic: recent spambots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32645
Re: recent spambots
It has been noted that changing the noise level to both the foreground and background of the CAPTCHA is holding them off. They are probably only breaking the default noise levels. Do note that changing those levels can make it harder for humans too, so it is a trade off. One other option, in the KB...
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:45 pm
- Forum: phpBB 3.0.x Support
- Topic: recent spambots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32645
Re: recent spambots
Can you do the Custom Profile Field (or a variant of it) for guest postings?
As I said, we do allow guest postings (with Captcha, but I think I've made it too complex), for my forum setup this is ideal as we only manually activate accounts once approved to join (it's a guild forum for Age of Conan).
As I said, we do allow guest postings (with Captcha, but I think I've made it too complex), for my forum setup this is ideal as we only manually activate accounts once approved to join (it's a guild forum for Age of Conan).
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:36 am
- Forum: phpBB 3.0.x Support
- Topic: recent spambots
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32645
Re: recent spambots
The ironic thing is... I didn't get no spam bots at all until I updated to 3.0.4 from 3.0.2. I reckon, within 6 hours of updating the spam bots started successfully getting through. I don't know what was done, but while people were reporting it up to as recent as 2 weeks ago it first started, I pers...
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:30 am
- Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
- Topic: ajax?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 58242
Re: ajax?
I'd like to see an AJAX mouseover of topics, that'll display the first X lines of a post.
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:06 am
- Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Styling
- Topic: BOT Style
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17500
Re: BOT Style
Ectoman wrote: it has thousands of my pages indexed now.
How big is your site ??
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:54 am
- Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Styling
- Topic: Beta style vs Release style?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 23143
Re: Beta style vs Release style?
Uchiha Nick wrote: most will probably create their own style anyway, to match it to their site
No doubt about it.
But I know a lot of people that still use the standard phpBB 2.0.X theme...
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:52 am
- Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Styling
- Topic: Reduce width and center the page -- any simple way?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 91174
Re: Reduce width and center the page -- any simple way?
Maybe... set a min-width as pixels, and a max width as percentage ??
- Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:47 am
- Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
- Topic: CVS for phpBB 3.0
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5650
Re: CVS for phpBB 3.0
Gah - that's the ONLY page I didn't go to!! LOL
I only came to the Area51 part as I saw it linked in a thread from the Beta support forums on phpbb.com
I only came to the Area51 part as I saw it linked in a thread from the Beta support forums on phpbb.com
- Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:16 am
- Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
- Topic: CVS for phpBB 3.0
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5650
CVS for phpBB 3.0
Ok ok .. I KNOW that it is unsupported and that use is at your own risk. I've been told in another thread to read the 'read this before posting'. I have, I've searched... I can't seem to find a link through to the CVS location for phpBB 3.0. Truly, I can't. Please, can someone provide a link towards...