Changes to the website: Disabling ability to post comments

Kevin Funk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop
Message-ID <3188404.fEcJ0Lxnt5@kerberos>
Heya guys,

we've been getting enormous amounts of spam from the kdevelop.org contact page 
lately, due to the switch from reCAPTCHA to the basic math captch in Drupal 
[1].

There are recurring issues with more complex captcha modules in Drupal which 
make it difficult to counter spam there so Milian & me decided to remove the 
contact and (for the same reasons) the ability to post comments on 
kdevelop.org. With around 10 spam mails arriving via the contact form, 10-20 
spam comments arriving /per day/ it's simply not possible to review them and, 
needless to say, no fun. I just simply rm'd around 1100 Unapproved Comments in 
Drupal (est. 95%-100% were clearly spam)...

So I'd recommend for new KDevelop release posts to just state sth like this at 
the end of the post from now on:
  "If you have any remarks or in case you find any issues in KDevelop, please 
let us [know](https://www.kdevelop.org/support)."

Users are then encouraged to post to the KDevelop mailing list, forums or bug 
tracker instead, where it's easier to counter spam.

Hope you understand.

Regards,
Kevin


[1] https://phabricator.kde.org/T12725

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Kevin Funk | [email protected] | http://kfunk.org
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