Akismet

11 Responses

1. Joe Says:
   June 12th, 2006 at 5:42 pm

   Cool!

2. Hoffman Says:
   June 12th, 2006 at 9:44 pm

   I found a quick little phpBB hack to implement Akismet here:

   http://www.randombyte.net/wiki/phpbb_akismet

3. Lena Says:
   June 13th, 2006 at 7:41 am

   Thank god!

4. Douglas Bell Says:
   June 13th, 2006 at 9:25 am

   Hoffman:
   Although that would work, I’m trying to get the settings for the Akismet plugin more integrated into the phpBB Admin Panel to hopefully make it as integrated and as complete into phpBB as possible.

   Also, I’ll be putting it into the official phpBB MOD Template so it can be installed by tools like EasyMOD.

5. Andy Says:
   June 13th, 2006 at 12:11 pm

   How about a plugin for vBulletin? Sure, it’s commercial (as is phpBB these days - though you can get the older versions free), but it’s a great piece of forum software… And certainly one of the most used…

6. Stephen Says:
   June 14th, 2006 at 12:09 am

   All phpBB versions are free. Andy, I’m not sure where you heard/read that phpBB became a commercial forum.

7. Justin Says:
   June 14th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

   All forums need Akismet. I’ve integrated it into E-Blah about 3 weeks ago and it’s caught over 400 pieces of spam. E-Blah has it installed by default though so there’s no extra mods that need to be installed.

   Here’s a graph of spam it’s caught: http://www.eblah.com/blahdocs/Random/spam.gif

8. Douglas Bell Says:
   June 15th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

   I’m currently debugging the first release of the code, which I plan to release today.

9. Douglas Bell Says:
   June 15th, 2006 at 2:02 pm

   I’m pleased to announce that version 0.1.0 of Akismet Spam Butcher MOD has been released. Support and a download link are available via the link provided in this blog post.
   I ask anyone who has knowledge about implementations of Akismet to look at the MOD and provide any suggestions/opinions, etc. to help make the MOD better!
   –Douglas Bell (Fountain of Apples)

10. Ben Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 10:59 am

    Oh WOW, Akismet for phpBB! Thanks a lot Doug! I have successfully kept spamBots from posting on my forum (with a simple user activation), but haven’t found an effective way to keep manual spammers off of my site without turning on admin activation of accounts. I love my WordPress Akismet plugin, so I can’t wait to try your phpBB version. Thanks again!

11. XIII Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 1:32 pm

    ^ the topic over at phpbb.com says he’s abandoned the project unfortunately. Let’s hope someone else can pick it up.