Forum upgrade

Jeff Jones

Hello all,

Thank you for your patience while we upgrade the BikeRadar forum to a more mobile friendly version

We have disabled avatars for the time being, but they will be back tomorrow. As will the indication that you're logged in when you log in.

There might be a few other bugs too but we'll fix those as we come across them.

If you notice anything else weird, please use this link to submit feedback

Jeff Jones

Log in and log out buttons now work properly

Jeff Jones

Avatars are now back

Jeff Jones

We're working on the issue with the Captcha message coming up each time you try to log in with the correct password. We should have it sorted soon, but if you enter the Captcha details and the right password you'll get in.

Jeff Jones

Captcha issue now sorted. You should be able to log in with the correct password without seeing the Captcha

Jeff Jones

We need to shut the forum for 2mins to apply a patch. Hang tight.

Edit: it's done

Jeff Jones

Links to New posts, Private messages, and the User control panel are back (next to the Logout button at the top)

You can now view your own or someone else's posts (click on username then you'll see 'search user's posts') on the right

Or if you go to your user control panel it's there on 'front page' -> 'overview' (the default screen for UCP) and Show Your Posts is under Activity.

Font size will be bumped up a bit too

Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones wrote:

You can now view your own or someone else's posts (click on username then you'll see 'search user's posts') on the right

Or if you go to your user control panel it's there on 'front page' -> 'overview' (the default screen for UCP) and Show Your Posts is under Activity.

In addition to the above, there's now a link to 'Your Posts' new to 'New Posts', 'private messages' and 'user control panel' at the top of each page.

Jeff Jones

After today's mega spam attack, we've increased the anti-spam defences. Hoping they will be enough now, but we will keep an eye on it obviously.

Saturday morning update: the bots are still spamming us I'm afraid. We're picking up over half of it, but clearly need to bolster the defences. Cleaning up the forums now.

Monday morning update: the measures we put in place worked and we were able to stop the spammers before they started posting. We will also put in place more protection so that if it does happen again, the place won't be flooded. Every cloud...

Looking at the spam filter report over the weekend, we actually picked up 85% of the spam before it made it onto the forum, which gives you an idea of how much there was!