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I've removed the two status updates and banned the IP they came from (Latvia. User had previously never connected from Europe, never mind Latvia).
I've also disabled the user's ability to post status updates. Does anyone know @antahbrantahstan? He hadn't been active since 2016 so I'm thinking I might just reset the password to something random.
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Let me think about that one. I had looked at building my own a few years ago but never got around to it.
The first 2 Plugins are for different forum software so don't really help us here...and the last one is for Invision, but doesn't list the current version as compatible and hasn't been updated since 2018.
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Alright, think I'm done fiddling with this. We get an A on our HTTPS report now, so I'm happy.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.westpacific.org
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Main upgrades complete. Might be some quick blips later, as I test a few other things, but should be good.
Hoping this will help the forums be a little faster now.
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On 1/22/2020 at 8:34 AM, Bhang Bhang Duc said:
I’ve been locked out of my account twice now by the same little shit (Casmar was his forum handle) that’s been stalking Dave. Dark reset my password for me after I managed to stuff that up.
He keeps trying....I've banned a few of the IPs now from there...all DHCP so it's probably not going to help...I may have to ban the IP Range from that ISP completely.
I'm going to add his IPs to the firewall on the server as well, as I think the login page still renders if I ban an IP.
If you find your account locked out, you should be able to try again in 15 minutes as it will auto unlock (provided numbnutz doesn't keep hitting it).
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Has been banned, but it's a DHCP Address in Iowa, so it will likely return as a new IP at somepoint. You weren't the only account it attempted to login as.
Thankfully the forum software's lockout/autounlock does it's job in preventing a true brute force attack, as it maxes out at 3 attempts.
- Eli and Adorable Davelands
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Ok, has been restored...although gotta say, it looks pretty bare... This what it was supposed to look like?
Would have been done sooner but right after I posted my internet decided to crap out.
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I've restored it from the 6am UTC backup, but I'm not sure if that got all the edits...
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Not directly. I'm looking at standing up a temporary database to extract the post before it was edited last night. See if I can't restore it correctly, as Bran sent me a message last night about it.
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On 6/13/2019 at 5:59 PM, Saint Mark said:
Please mask @JtheCat as a citizen.
Thank you!
All done.
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I'm guessing someone got to it already as @Daddy_Jacoby seems to only be a member of the default member group right now.
Oh yeah, there is a nice admin audit bar on the right now, it looks like Darkesia got it update for you last night.
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On 3/14/2019 at 7:06 AM, Mediobogdum said:
Which ever way Winnie wants this to go is okay by me... PayPal seems to be the easiest route to follow as many players probably already have an account. Well, at least I do!
Do we know what sort of level of funding, apart from annual fees that is needed? Was thinking about costs for developing/enhancing/repairing features? We used to have a great feature in Vortex which allowed us to see which nations we had not endorsed and vice versa. This excellent facility fell by the wayside, but maybe that was a different feature from the forum?
Vortex was halted as it actually broke the MySQL database (too much data was retained I guess), I might be into looking at redeveloping that a somepoint, but do have to admit that when I get home from work, I'm less motivated to work on Web projects like that than I used to be.
That said....now that you bring this up, I wonder if Vortex would be a good candidate to use SQLite instead of a full fledged database...I have had an itch to try building something using that.
As for a tip jar, I'll look at setting something up so we can use paypal...it seems like the least amount of work overall.
- Westwind and Mediobogdum
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I don't see why not....course, I reserve final judgement before uploading, but so long as they're not overtly offensive I don't see objecting to them.
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Back in the day I just used Paypal for random donations, then later used Dreamhost's built in Paypal donation links (that way it went straight to the site maintenance rather than having to use my personal paypal as an intermediary... Unfortunately my current provider does not offer that in anyway.
This all said, I just learned recently that here in Alberta every citizen has access to a free virtual server hosting thing....so I'm looking into moving the forums over to that...Then the only real costs are the $25 USD/6months for the Forum Software, and $10/year for the domain name.
My biggest concerns with any crowdsourcing would be how it would affect my taxes...
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Excellent, I should have given you the size right from the beginning, but oh well...
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So this is the current background image:
http://www.westpacific.org/images/twp_v4.jpg
It's 1310x77, so whatever you put together should be similar size to fit into the forum layout. I can probably worth with that one, but would prefer something wider/less background repetitive. We used to have a rotating banners on the forums back about 5-6 years ago, and I sourced most of those from city panoramic shots (like the one of Sydney that we're using right now). That system would just load a random background on each page load (rather than the way it does it on NationStates and uses javascript to rotate through them while you're on the page....personally, I would find that a bit busy for a page header.
As for a rotating banner, I'm sure I can do it as I said a few replies back, but just need to set it up (and have the sources put together). I will put this limitation on it, please don't make them really tall. There is no real reason for massive headers on pages, I see it on some of the other offsite forums and I've always thought it was pretty fugly when the header takes up the first half (or more) of the page and you have to scroll down to the meat of the page. Header should probably be no more than 120pixels tall.
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2 hours ago, Saint Mark said:
Dark, while we're awaiting a response from one of our esteemed elder admins on the banner question, would you please change the current forum banner to this one?
Thank you!
Do you have something a little....wider to work with? That one will most certainly be too small (a certain Zoolander quote involving ants and schools comes to mind).
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I used to have it doing that...been a while but I'm sure I could conjure something up at somepoint... I don't spend nearly as much time on the computer when I get home from work anymore, but...
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Admin Requests Part Quatre
in Technical Forum Part Duex
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I checked a few sources and the email from the account does show up as having been breached from Zanga Gaming, so they likely used the same password here as on that site.
Doesn't really matter now as we've blocked up the account.
Thanks for reporting the links.