Because of a large spam wave I’ve temporarily set the instance to invite-only. Together with @Odilhao we’ve cleaned up the spam posts. Apologies for the inconvenience, but after the holidays we should properly investigate.
I have just reverted back to allow registrations and will continue to monitor the situation.
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We just had a few accounts try again with very similar content. For now I’m keeping registrations open, but keeping an eye on it.
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There was just another run so I’m setting it back to invite-only for now. After the conferences we’ll need to investigate a proper solution.
I have changed some spam related settings that I hope will help. For now I enabled sign ups again, but if we’re hit again then we need to figure out some better prevention.
That was a quick experiment: we very quickly saw spam return.
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This was reverted again, but this time we’ve tightened the rules for new users: