I’ve released a very small update to the Akismet for WordPress plugin, version 1.15. (Might take a few minutes to show up in the download.) Basically it just cleans up the formatting of the spam page a bit, adds a delete button to the bottom of the page, and gives you a view post link [...]
We had a systems problem earlier today which caused spam to not get caught for some of our users. Because we’re in the middle of a comment spam torrent, this was probably very noticable to a lot of people, for which I’m very sorry.
It’s a process, but we’re always increasing capacity for crazy spikes like [...]
There has been a ton of buzz around the blogosphere about the huge spikes in spam the past few weeks, and we’ve been blogging about it a fair amount too, but I was getting tired of blogging the doubling every few days.
Now we have a pretty neat Akismet stats page which graphs out [...]
Brain Moon has created an Akismet anti-spam mod for Phorum. Brain says “Phorum is the oldest PHP/MySQL message board in existence. Looks great!
Mark at Weblog Tools Collection posts about his Akismet caught spam count - 271,167. He also invites people to share their count in the comments, I guess a button or badge is really needed!
Until recently Mark was the most spammed man in the world, Weblog Tools Collection and his personal blog accounted for a startling [...]
We’ve had quite a few folks ask for some sort of button they could put on their site. Well, one of our users Nigel Kane went ahead and did one, which we’ve put in the FAQ (at the bottom). If anyone else is feeling artistically inclined, go ahead and send us your Akismet button and [...]
