So as you may or may not have noticed, the site was in maintenance mode for a few hours today.
This was to run updates, fix some outstanding issues that have vaguely annoyed me for a while, and mostly to try and resolve the recent bot influx.
Here are a couple of changes that I've made that you might notice:
- The SMF version number on the bottom of the page has changed! We are no longer super out of date!
- The site now forces everyone to use HTTPS (as do the storm shelter and bg archive although nobody should be logging into those) because we're no longer using expired SSL certificates!
- People who are in a group where their name is a different color (like me) now have their name in that color everywhere that it's a link. This is a side-effect of cleaning out old junk that was installed poorly (probably as part of one of our migrations) and replacing it with new less-junk alternatives. I don't expect anyone to care, I'm just explaining why my name is now going to be red everywhere.
- We should get less spambots being able to register because that whole process has changed. I've been cleaning up bots multiple times a day so if it continues to be an issue I'm going to work on this further (now that we're in a better place than we were this morning). I've deleted thousands of them and I'm tired of it.
There shouldn't be any leftover issues or random stuff that needs to be addressed like the last time I did major maintenance to the site (three and a half years ago), but I'm not stepping down this time so you're all stuck with me.
