regarding all these spam problems, registration issues... I think it is maybe time to do some update

Do you know some great lightweight forum engine that we could use instead of PunBB ?
So far, i was thinking about Vanilla, but all suggestions are really welcome.

the spam is getting really unbearable now. I delete 2 or 3 times a day almost every day.

we have to do something

i completely agree, it's now almost impossible to browse between unanswered thread without coming across spam entries. is there a way to get in touch with neko and maybe think about installing an akismet-like service? or should we do something more radical, like migrating to a different forum engine?

Hello people:
In my humble opinion, if there is a way in which spammers could be stopped more easily and the pros of this forum are not lost, a change would be good. It is really annoying finding out that a reply to a question of interest is some "buy this shit" post.
I don't know how akismet works. I like the way stackoverflow dot com works, but I don't know if its FLOSS or not, hope it is.
Well, that's all I can propose by now.
Best regards,

Sumidero

I just emailed neko about it, so hopefully we'll be able to address it soon. From looking around it seems that an upgrade will be required. We're still using an old version of PunBB that isn't supported any more, and the extensions are no longer online. So even if there was some kind of captcha to install at one time, it's not available any more.

yes, cheers Maelstorm.

Neko is the only one who can perform a migration / update on the forum software itself, so we need to wait for him to answer. Hopefully he'll pull through.

Hi, every body,

Sorry for the very long time to respond, i have not really time to take care of this forum.

I would like to make the migration to discourse ( http://www.discourse.org/ ) but i don't success to find free time to make it happen.

If someone is brave enough i could give access to a zip of the files of this forum + mysql dump. You'll need to host the new forum.

Hit me at le.neko@gmail.com

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