We did some upgrades to the system last night to do some more finely grained tracking of the per blog and per key amounts of spam, ham, and mistakes moving through the system. It’s starting to expose some interesting data, and it’s kinda fun to play with. I’m curious if folks would be interested in [...]
Some enterprising folks have made Akismet available for Expression Engine.
We’ve been getting several reports of errors with Akismet after people upgrade to Movable Type 3.31. To be honest we’re not Perl hackers so if you have any clues what might be causing the error and we’ll update this entry with information on a workaround or a new version of the plugin.
Dave is developing an Akismet mod for Coppermine, if you use Coppermine to manage your online photos check it out.
Joel Thoms of Joel.net has written a .NET 2.0 library for Akismet, which we’ve added to our development page. We’ve also had another one of these sent in that I need to upload to the site somewhere.
If you’re on a Microsoft platform and need spam protection for any application that takes user input, this library [...]
Jeff Capron wrote in to say he’s written a plugin to use Akismet for vBulletin. The site requires an email to check it out, so I haven’t tried it out myself, but if you use the very popular vBulletin forum software you may want to check this out and let us know how it works [...]
Markus from phpMix.org has put together a really cool Akismet module for Drupal, which is a very flexible content management system. I’ve added it to our development page. If you’re dealing with big communities of submitted content, Drupal + Akismet might be a good bet for you.
phpBB is very popular forum software. Douglas Bell is working on a “mod” to integrate Akismet spam protection with phpBB software, so if that sounds interesting to you go check it out.
The b5media Blog Network recently got an Akismet Enterprise License and is installing it for all their blogs. For people running dozens or even hundreds of blogs, I can’t imagine how much time Akismet spam protection saves for them and their writers. I’m biased, but I think it’s a very prescient move on their part.
Moderation [...]
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 [...]
