Akismet

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For vBulletin

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

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 [...]

Drupal Module

Monday, June 12th, 2006

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

Monday, June 12th, 2006

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.

b5media Blog Network

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

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. [...]

New Version of Plugin

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

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 [...]

Systems Error

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

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 [...]

Spam Stats

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

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 the [...]

Phorum Spam Protection

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

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!

Second most spammed man in the world

Monday, May 15th, 2006

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 [...]

Akismet Buttons?

Monday, May 8th, 2006

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 [...]