Mollom

The new kid on the Drop

Larry — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:40:08 +0000

The new kid on the Drop

This site has been running Drupal 5 for over a year now, even though Drupal 6 has been available since February. I kept meaning to update it, but never got around to it. Of course, then along came Acquia and a pressing need to try out the new kid on the block (for purely professional reasons, of course). So, armed with proper backup tools and a fast Internet connection, I set about to sacrifice my blog on the alter of experimentation. Onwards!

Larry 9 October 2008 - 3:40pm

The latest spam

Larry — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:54:45 +0000

The latest spam

I have been running Mollom as my spam-fighter on this site for not quite two months now. It's been fairly effective overall. The nifty flash meter shows me just how bad the spam problem is (good grief, 593 blocked spam messages just on 15 May!), and I haven't gotten any spam in my comment list yet.

That is, until today, when a new form appeared.

Larry 23 May 2008 - 7:54pm

Mollom: Dries' 3rd kid

Larry — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:29:55 +0000

Mollom: Dries' 3rd kid

I've been meaning to upgrade the Akismet module on this site for a while now. Of course, I waited so long that another option just appeared, one I've been waiting to see for a while: Mollom.

The other other project from apparent insomniac Dries Buytaert, Mollom is a content filtering service similar to Akismet. I've actually been familiar with it for a long time, as the GoPHP5 project has been running a Mollom private beta since last June. In fact, when Acquia was announced my first thought was "wait, what happened to Mollom?"

Larry 31 March 2008 - 11:29pm