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Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Lee U. <le...@cf...>]

Mike,

Is there a link to see the updated "seemore" plugin in action? On your website the entire story is shown on the index page.

I too continue using Blosxom as it's fantastic! Simple to use w/o all the problems with malware, etc.

Lee



On Thu, Oct  8, 2015, Yahoo <mik...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm still using blosxom for my blog, at www.mikedowney.co.uk
> I'm mainly sticking with it through familiarity and inertia, I've been 
> using it for years and have it set up just how I like it and I really 
> don't have time to set up another blogging system and transfer a few 
> thousand posts and photos over. I've done a bit of plugin hacking, most 
> recently modifying the 'seemore' and 'imagegallery' plugins to use 
> JQuery to update the view without needing to reload the entire page - 
> those, along with a 'like' button can be found at 
> http://mikedowney.co.uk/blog/blosxom/2014
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
> On 05/10/2015 01:29, Jordan Henderson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
> > bringing one up again.
> >
> > I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the
> > low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
> > CSS directly, which I like.
> >
> > I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
> > still actively blogging with it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> 
> 
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Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Yahoo <mik...@gm...>]

I'm still using blosxom for my blog, at www.mikedowney.co.uk
I'm mainly sticking with it through familiarity and inertia, I've been 
using it for years and have it set up just how I like it and I really 
don't have time to set up another blogging system and transfer a few 
thousand posts and photos over. I've done a bit of plugin hacking, most 
recently modifying the 'seemore' and 'imagegallery' plugins to use 
JQuery to update the view without needing to reload the entire page - 
those, along with a 'like' button can be found at 
http://mikedowney.co.uk/blog/blosxom/2014

Mike.


On 05/10/2015 01:29, Jordan Henderson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
> bringing one up again.
>
> I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the
> low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
> CSS directly, which I like.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
> still actively blogging with it.
>
> Thanks!
>

Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[マイヤー ディビッド <pa...@fr...>]

Blosxom is a program I really admire. Elegant, simple, and 
well-integrated with Unix commands and file system.

However, I have often found myself wanting to structure my websites just 
a LITTLE differently than Blosxom assumes I want, so I reluctantly start 
on my own script, maybe throwing Blosxom on the server as a stop-gap. 
Then I forget about both the new script and the stop-gap site until I'm 
reminded by something like Jordan's e-mail.

Hmmm, maybe time to brush-up my Perl skills and take a look at Blosxom 
again ...

Plugins falling off the Internet has been a disincentive to doing 
anything more than basic blogging with Blosxom.

Long Live Blosxom!

-- 
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
pa...@fr...

Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Matthijs K. <mat...@st...>]

Hi Gustaf,

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:23:35AM +0200, Gustaf Erikson wrote:
> Still using it, still blogging
>
> I haven't done any hacking in it in a long time though...

Exactly the same applies to me, my blog is still running at
http://www.stderr.nl

Gr.

Matthijs

Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Gustaf E. <ger...@gm...>]

I'd like to add that I've found blosxom very convenient for organizing
data feeds. For example I have one "blog" for my twitter feed, and one
for my Pinboard links. In both cases the data is semi-automatically
collected into "articles" and then added to a static site using
blosxom.

* http://gerikson.com/linkblog/
* http://gerikson.com/twitterblog/

Of course any "blogging" platform that produces static content from
flat files can be used for this.

/g.


On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Gustaf Erikson <ger...@gm...> wrote:
> Still using it, still blogging
>
> http://gerikson.com/blog/
>
> I haven't done any hacking in it in a long time though...
>
> This is my setup, I don't even know if the links to the plugins work anymore
>
> http://gerikson.com/blog/meta/colophon.html
>
> /g.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Jordan Henderson
> <jor...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
>> bringing one up again.
>>
>> I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the
>> low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
>> CSS directly, which I like.
>>
>> I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
>> still actively blogging with it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> ----Jordan Henderson
>>
>> "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
>> And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
>> it."
>>   - Jack Handey
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blosxom-users mailing list
>> Blo...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blosxom-users
>
>
>
> --
> Gustaf Erikson
> http://gerikson.com/blog



-- 
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http://gerikson.com/blog

Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Rob R. <ro...@gm...>]

Ryan,

Yeah if you'd put those plugins someplace, I for one would definitely
'poke around' them. So it would be helpful.

Cheers,

Rob

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Ryan Hunt <rya...@ry...> wrote:
> I stopped thru atrophy. 3-4 servers in a row got hacked (not related to
> blosxom). Finally gave up. Had developed a few plugins that I should put up
> for others to poke around with though.
>
> ---
> Sent from Boxer | http://getboxer.com
>
> On 5 October 2015 at 14:25:21 HKT, Gustaf Erikson <ger...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> Still using it, still blogging
>
> http://gerikson.com/blog/
>
> I haven't done any hacking in it in a long time though...
>
> This is my setup, I don't even know if the links to the plugins work anymore
>
> http://gerikson.com/blog/meta/colophon.html
>
> /g.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Jordan Henderson
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
>> bringing one up again.
>>
>> I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want. Also, the
>> low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
>> CSS directly, which I like.
>>
>> I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
>> still actively blogging with it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> ----Jordan Henderson
>>
>> "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
>> And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
>> it."
>> - Jack Handey
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blosxom-users mailing list
>> Blo...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blosxom-users
>
>
>
> --
> Gustaf Erikson
> http://gerikson.com/blog
>
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Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Ryan H. <rya...@ry...>]

I stopped thru atrophy. 3-4 servers in a row got hacked (not related to blosxom). Finally gave up. Had developed a few plugins that I should put up for others to poke around with though.  

---Sent from Boxer | http://getboxer.com

Still using it, still blogging



http://gerikson.com/blog/



I haven't done any hacking in it in a long time though...



This is my setup, I don't even know if the links to the plugins work anymore



http://gerikson.com/blog/meta/colophon.html



/g.



On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Jordan Henderson

<jor...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about

> bringing one up again.

>

> I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the

> low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and

> CSS directly, which I like.

>

> I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are

> still actively blogging with it.

>

> Thanks!

>

> --

> ----Jordan Henderson

>

> "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.

> And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect

> it."

>   - Jack Handey

>

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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> Blo...@li...

> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blosxom-users







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Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Gustaf E. <ger...@gm...>]

Still using it, still blogging

http://gerikson.com/blog/

I haven't done any hacking in it in a long time though...

This is my setup, I don't even know if the links to the plugins work anymore

http://gerikson.com/blog/meta/colophon.html

/g.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:29 AM, Jordan Henderson
<jor...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
> bringing one up again.
>
> I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the
> low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
> CSS directly, which I like.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
> still actively blogging with it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> ----Jordan Henderson
>
> "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
> And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
> it."
>   - Jack Handey
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Blosxom-users mailing list
> Blo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blosxom-users



-- 
Gustaf Erikson
http://gerikson.com/blog

Re: [Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Steve S. <agi...@gm...>]

Hi Jordan,
I've switched to Pelican (Python static site generator) for my newer blogs
but I'm still running the Blosxom blog I started in 2004:

http://agilitynerd.com/blog/

If it meets your needs and you aren't afraid to hack on Perl code to write
plugins/customizations there is no reason not to use it. :) I did find when
my site got hit with big visitor spikes I had to put nginx with caching in
front of it to keep the response time fast/server load low.

Best Regards,
Steve
Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/  http://tech.agilitynerd.com/
Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/
Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/
http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Jordan Henderson <jor...@gm...
> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
> bringing one up again.
>
> I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the
> low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
> CSS directly, which I like.
>
> I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
> still actively blogging with it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> ----Jordan Henderson
>
> "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
> And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
> it."
>   - Jack Handey
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Blosxom-users mailing list
> Blo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blosxom-users
>

[Blosxom-users] Roll call

[Jordan H. <jor...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I had a blosxom blog up briefly years ago and I'm thinking about
bringing one up again.

I've been playing with it and it seems to do what I want.  Also, the
low level configuration really encourages one to work with HTML and
CSS directly, which I like.

I'd be interested in seeing who is still using it and how many are
still actively blogging with it.

Thanks!

-- 
----Jordan Henderson

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
it."
  - Jack Handey

Re: [Blosxom-users] seemore plugin

[Steve S. <agi...@gm...>]

Lee,

I finally decided to do this also. This is how I did it. In the __DATA__
section:
error divider <div id="seemore"></div>\n
error showmore <p><a rel="nofollow"
href="$blosxom::url$path/$fn.html?seemore=y#seemore" class="seemore">See
more ...</a></p>\n

So it uses the browser to scroll to the id'd fragment which is only
inserted on the target page.

Best Regards,
Steve
Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/  http://tech.agilitynerd.com/
Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/
Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/
http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Lee Underwood <le...@cf...> wrote:

> [I asked this on Facebook but haven't received an answer yet.]
>
> I am using the seemore plugin, v 0+3i, written by Todd Larason. I know
> that somehow it can be set so that a portion of the text is displayed on
> the main blog page. up to the <!-- more --> expression, which works fine
> now, but there is also a way to make it so that when the reader clicks to
> see the entire post, it begins displaying at the text after the <!-- more
> --> expression. The whole post is there, this just makes it so the reader
> doesn't have to find their place in the midst of the text. Anyone know how
> to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lee
>

Re: [Blosxom-users] Path in feedback moderated emails

[David M. <pa...@fr...>]

On Sat, July 20, 2013 07:43, Lee Underwood wrote:
> Never mind. I just hardwired it into the plugin.

Good job. Keep Blosxom flying!


-- 
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
pa...@sd...

Re: [Blosxom-users] Path in feedback moderated emails

[Lee U. <le...@cf...>]

Never mind. I just hardwired it into the plugin.

[Blosxom-users] Path in feedback moderated emails

[Lee U. <le...@cf...>]

In the blosxom.cgi, under "Configurable variables", file I have

# What's my preferred base URL for this blog (leave blank for automatic)?
set to: $url = "/weblog";

as I want the path to be "http://example.org/weblog/" but in using the feedback plugin (moderated) I get an email to approve/reject the comment with links like:

-------------------------------------
To approve this feedback, please click on the URL
/weblog/file-name-is-here.html?moderate=approve;feedback=HIuzMIjia

To reject this feedback, please click on the URL
/weblog/file-name-is-here.html?moderate=reject;feedback=HIuzMIjia
-------------------------------------

I know the path in the feedback is taken from the blosxom.cgi file so my question is if I add the full path, e.g., http://example.org/weblog/, to the blosxom.cgi file will it screw-up my existing set-up? (Or I could just hardwire it into the feedback plugin I guess) I can just paste and copy the approve/reject link but it's just easier to click on it and be done.

Thanks,

Lee

[Blosxom-users] Problem w/RSS feed and double first posting

[Lee U. <le...@cf...>]

I'm having a bit of a problem with my RSS feed. Each post displays properly but at the end of each post I am only getting a relative link instead of an absolute link, e.g., this is what Blosxom formats:

<link>/weblog/title-to-the-blog-post.html</link>

instead of

<link>http://emetnews.org/weblog/title-to-the-blog-post.html</link>

This is what I have in my story.rss flavour:

<item>
  <title>$title</title>
  <pubDate>$dw, $da $mo $yr $hr:$min:00 EST</pubDate>
  <description><![CDATA[$body]]></description>
  <link>$url$path/$fn.html</link>
</item>

The <link> part is the same as I have for the HTML flavour and it gives an absolute link but this doesn't. If you need to check the output, here is the feed: http://emetnews.org/weblog/index.rss

ALSO I reuploaded my blosxom.cgi file as I needed to change a path but now I am getting the first (top) post appearing twice (although the source code is a bit diferent). Anybody got any ideas why that is now happening too?

I am using Blosxom v2.0

Lee

Re: [Blosxom-users] seemore plugin

[Lee U. <le...@cf...>]

Well, yes, i could use HTML bookmarks but I am trying to get the plugin to work as it was created to work. I know it's just a little fix but I can't remember what it is.

Thanks though.

Lee


===========================================
On Fri, 17 May 2013 10:46:23 -0400 George Larson <geo...@gm...> wrote:

| I sent this to the list but I've never posted before so (I suppose) that's
| why it is waiting for approval.  But it seemed like you were looking for
| something sooner than later, so here's a copy:
| 
| Are you looking to do it out-of-the-box or roll your own?
| 
| I've not used 'seemore' but, off the top, I'm guessing it uses a hyperlink
| to the actual story.  If your story had an anchor
| [ <a name='jumpHere'> ]
| then you could modify 'seemore' to include it
| [ <a href='myfullstory.html#jumpHere'> ]
| 
| Is that an adequate solution?
| 
| 
| 
| ---------- Forwarded message ----------
| From: George Larson <geo...@gm...>
| Date: Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:32 AM
| Subject: Re: [Blosxom-users] seemore plugin
| To: blo...@li...
| 
| 
| Are you looking to do it out-of-the-box or roll your own?
| 
| I've not used 'seemore' but, off the top, I'm guessing it uses a hyperlink
| to the actual story.  If your story had an anchor
| [ <a name='jumpHere'> ]
| then you could modify 'seemore' to include it
| [ <a href='myfullstory.html#jumpHere'> ]
| 
| Is that an adequate solution?
| 
| 
| On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Lee Underwood <le...@cf...> wrote:
| 
| > [I asked this on Facebook but haven't received an answer yet.]
| >
| > I am using the seemore plugin, v 0+3i, written by Todd Larason. I know
| > that somehow it can be set so that a portion of the text is displayed on
| > the main blog page. up to the <!-- more --> expression, which works fine
| > now, but there is also a way to make it so that when the reader clicks to
| > see the entire post, it begins displaying at the text after the <!-- more
| > --> expression. The whole post is there, this just makes it so the reader
| > doesn't have to find their place in the midst of the text. Anyone know how
| > to do this?
| >
| > Thanks,
| >
| > Lee
| >
| >
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| > security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and
| > efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls
| > from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial.
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[Blosxom-users] seemore plugin

[Lee U. <le...@cf...>]

[I asked this on Facebook but haven't received an answer yet.]

I am using the seemore plugin, v 0+3i, written by Todd Larason. I know that somehow it can be set so that a portion of the text is displayed on the main blog page. up to the <!-- more --> expression, which works fine now, but there is also a way to make it so that when the reader clicks to see the entire post, it begins displaying at the text after the <!-- more --> expression. The whole post is there, this just makes it so the reader doesn't have to find their place in the midst of the text. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,

Lee

Re: [Blosxom-users] Is Blosxom still active?

[Jeremy M. <Je...@Ma...>]

On 01/01/13 05:06, Robert Schmid wrote:
> I wish I had found blosxom years ago.  It is the perfect software for several small sites I maintain.  It's small footprint and precise feature tuning make it ideal.
> 
> But.... is it still vibrant?  I see some of the plugins I needed are now gone.  Will blosxom persist or is it giving in to the bloatware industry pushing CMS and blog software that nobody really needs?

Where were you looking for the plugins?  You may find what you need here:

http://tinyapps.org/blog/blosxom/201005140700_blosxom_plugin_mirror.html

Or if you let us know what you need, let us know here and maybe one of
us has a copy that we can put back online.

Over the years there have been a bunch of other blosxom-like projects
based on flat files.  I was seriously considering migrating my blosxom
sites to Bryar (http://search.cpan.org/~mdi/Bryar-4.0/lib/Bryar.pm) at
one point.  But Bryar never really took off, and now seems as orphaned
as Blosxom is.

-- 
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Internet and Open Source lawyer, consumer advocate, geek
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Re: [Blosxom-users] Is Blosxom still active?

[Robert S. <rsc...@ra...>]

That's the answer I was hoping for.  I just want to be sure it won't disappear on me.


On Jan 16, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Kevin Scaldeferri wrote:

> The question seems a little strange.
> 
> IMO, blosxom is more-or-less a finished project.  It does what it needs to do, and doesn't really need more done on it.  Attempts to push forward with "Blosxom 3" never really took off because it worked well enough as it was and attempts to build something more sophisticated also seemed to lose the simple elegance that made blosxom appeal to most of us.
> 
> I don't see blosxom being in competition with systems like Wordpress.  blosxom is designed for programmers who want to write articles in text files, and create their own plugins and templates.  Many other people don't want to be that intimately involved with their publishing engine and Wordpress, et al, are a better choice for them.
> 
> -kevin
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Robert Schmid <rsc...@ra...> wrote:
> I wish I had found blosxom years ago.  It is the perfect software for several small sites I maintain.  It's small footprint and precise feature tuning make it ideal.
> 
> But.... is it still vibrant?  I see some of the plugins I needed are now gone.  Will blosxom persist or is it giving in to the bloatware industry pushing CMS and blog software that nobody really needs?
> 
> Robert
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Re: [Blosxom-users] Net::Akismet and feedback plugin

[David M. <pa...@fr...>]

I am using Rael's original writeback plugin for comments (so no
moderation), and nospam (http://www.muli.cc/plugin:nospam-v0i01) is a
simple plugin that so far has given me total protection from spam.

-- 
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
http://papa.motd.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi
pa...@sd...

Re: [Blosxom-users] Is Blosxom still active?

[David M. <pa...@fr...>]

> I wish I had found blosxom years ago.  It is the perfect software for
> several small sites I maintain.  It's small footprint and precise feature
> tuning make it ideal.
>
> But.... is it still vibrant?  I see some of the plugins I needed are now
> gone.  Will blosxom persist or is it giving in to the bloatware industry
> pushing CMS and blog software that nobody really needs?

I share your admiration for blosxom as an excellent tool for its niche.
The community is certainly not vibrant, but there are a few of us
die-hards minding the flame.

Recently there's been some activity devoted to preserving plugins (a lot
of bit-rot on the Sourceforge plugin registry) centered around the Blosxom
Wiki (http://www.muli.cc/). We have our own mailing list
(bl...@mu...), but I think most members also subscribe to this list.


-- 
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
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Re: [Blosxom-users] Net::Akismet and feedback plugin

[Steve S. <agi...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Matthijs Kooijman <mat...@st...>wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> > I'm using Frank Hecker's feedback plugin
> > (http://hecker.org/blosxom/feedback) for comments at my blog. While the
> > plugin works well, especially its moderation features, I find that it
> > does not seem to do a very good job of filtering out spam, even when I
> > enable the optional Net::Akismet functionality.
>

Several years ago I changed from feedback to disqus.com and have been quite
happy. It also let me put fairly aggressive nginx caching in front of
blosxom to reduce the load on my server when I have a popular article and
still give up to date comments. Agilitynerd.com is still running blosxom
almost 10 years after I launched it!

Best Regards,
Steve
Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/  http://tech.agilitynerd.com/

Re: [Blosxom-users] Net::Akismet and feedback plugin

[Matthijs K. <mat...@st...>]

Hi Kevin,

> I'm using Frank Hecker's feedback plugin
> (http://hecker.org/blosxom/feedback) for comments at my blog. While the
> plugin works well, especially its moderation features, I find that it
> does not seem to do a very good job of filtering out spam, even when I
> enable the optional Net::Akismet functionality.
I'm also using the same plugin, but a slightly older version (0.20)
which doesn't even have Akismet support.

I've also struggled with the spam problem, but got it pretty much under
control by adding the following lines to feedback's is_spam function:

    return 1 if ($$params_ref{'comment'} =~ /http/);
    return 1 if ($$params_ref{'comment'} =~ /^Welcome!!!/);
    # Block coments with only letters, numbers and dashes
    return 1 if ($$params_ref{'comment'} =~ /^[a-zA-Z0-9-]*$/);
    return 1 if ($$params_ref{'comment'} =~ /<a href=  ><\/a>*/);
    return 1 if ($$params_ref{'name'} =~ /only/);
    return 1 if ($$params_ref{'url'} =~ /geocities/);

Most of these are just checks I added after getting specific types of
spam repeatedly, but the most effective check is the first one. This has
the side effect that people can't put complete urls with http:// prefix
in their comments (the url field still works as normal), but I changed
the error message to tell people to just remove the http:// part, since
I don't think feedback automatically turns urls into links anyway.

> Any idea what the problem might be? Is it possible that the Akismet bits 
> are turning away a lot of spam, but a lot is still getting in? (I know 
> Aiksmet isn't perfect.) What I've done as a workaround is to check for 
> URL's in the comment field, and mark those as spam (since all the spam 
> appears to come from linkbots). That seems to be helping, but it also 
> isn't the way things are supposed to work. Any suggestions are appreciated.
Hmm, I actually started replying before reading this part of your mail.
So, that's pretty much what I do, which helps terribly well (especially
since I only get a handful of comments each year or something, so it's
not especially cumbersome for a lot of people).

As for other solutions, I haven't actually looked into other solutions,
and as I said, there wasn't Akismet support when I installed the
feedback plugin (say, a year or five ago? ;-p).

Gr.

Matthijs

Re: [Blosxom-users] Is Blosxom still active?

[Kevin S. <ke...@sc...>]

The question seems a little strange.

IMO, blosxom is more-or-less a finished project.  It does what it needs to
do, and doesn't really need more done on it.  Attempts to push forward with
"Blosxom 3" never really took off because it worked well enough as it was
and attempts to build something more sophisticated also seemed to lose the
simple elegance that made blosxom appeal to most of us.

I don't see blosxom being in competition with systems like Wordpress.
 blosxom is designed for programmers who want to write articles in text
files, and create their own plugins and templates.  Many other people don't
want to be that intimately involved with their publishing engine and
Wordpress, et al, are a better choice for them.

-kevin



On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Robert Schmid
<rsc...@ra...>wrote:

> I wish I had found blosxom years ago.  It is the perfect software for
> several small sites I maintain.  It's small footprint and precise feature
> tuning make it ideal.
>
> But.... is it still vibrant?  I see some of the plugins I needed are now
> gone.  Will blosxom persist or is it giving in to the bloatware industry
> pushing CMS and blog software that nobody really needs?
>
> Robert
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[Blosxom-users] Is Blosxom still active?

[Robert S. <rsc...@ra...>]

I wish I had found blosxom years ago.  It is the perfect software for several small sites I maintain.  It's small footprint and precise feature tuning make it ideal.

But.... is it still vibrant?  I see some of the plugins I needed are now gone.  Will blosxom persist or is it giving in to the bloatware industry pushing CMS and blog software that nobody really needs?

Robert