Sporkmonger

Alright, that’s it. I’ve had it. Just got hit with another hundred or so spammy trackbacks.

I’m sick of Typo. Too much trackback spam, and no good way of defeating it with Typo. Typo doesn’t even let you disable trackbacks. It has an option for disabling it, but it doesn’t seem to actually do anything. Plus regular expressions and simple string blacklists that don’t match against the poster’s name, email address, or uri simply aren’t enough. It’s time to migrate to Mephisto. I’d been planning on sticking with Typo until GentleCMS was done and then rolling my own setup, but this is much too frustrating. So yeah, I’m starting the work required to switch over as of right now. Might take me a couple days because I have customizations to the Typo codebase, but if you have trouble leaving comments or if the site goes down entirely, you’ve probably just caught me in the middle of trying something. And apologies if any comments get lost in the fray.

I’ll probably end up implementing something similar to what Sam Ruby has going because a) it’s simple and b) seems to work.

Update: Now that I think about it, I might “reboot” the design while I’m at it. I found my missing spork the other day, so it’ll likely make a reappearance in the header image for the new design.

Update: It’s going to take longer than I thought to get the blog migrated. In the meantime, I’ve rather forcibly mangled Typo’s trackback support by rerouting trackbacks to the homepage. Didn’t feel like wading through Typo’s code when a one line patch to routes.rb would work. I’ll get everything working again later. The blog conversion has been largely delayed by TextDrive not answering support requests (grr) and by myself being preoccupied with work for a client. Some cool stuff that I can’t wait to show off.