/ 2013-05-18T14:06:22-07:00 e107 http://e107.org/ e107 e107 http://e107.org/e107_images/button.png e107inc.org - info@nospam.com http://e107.org/blog/Introducing%20SFS%3A%20the%20StopForumSpam%20plugin%20for%20e107 2013-03-14T16:31:25-07:00 Moc

Over the past weeks and months, the community has reported an increasing amount of bots signups which consequently results in an increasing amount of SPAM on your e107 installations. We hear you. Not only you guys are spending too much of your time trying to fight these nasty fellows, so are we. The e107 team members have practically made it their day job to remove the continous flow of spam posts (okay I am exeggerating here, but SPAM is definitely frustrating, isn't it?). e107 Inc. is now proud to introduce SFS, a plugin that cross-references every signup request with the database of stopforumspam.com. This database is a collection of usernames, e-mail addresses and IP-addresses of known spambots. After installing the plugin, every signup is quietly checked in the background against the stopforumspam.com database to make sure that it is not a spambot that tries to pollute your website but a legitimate user. In case a known spambot tries to sign up, the signup request will fail. This should decrease the amount of spambots who sign up on your website significantly (the plugin has already proven itself on this website over the past few hours alone). On behalf of e107 Inc., thank you stopforumspam.com for the excellent work that has been done in building this database over the years. The SFS plugin can be downloaded here: https://github.com/e107inc/sfsPlease feel free to leave feedback and to commit some pull-requests. In addition to the SFS plugin, we have added an additional spam check in the e107 signup process. This check is included in the 1.0.3 release and should contribute to reducing the amount of SPAM on your website. There is no guarantee for a SPAM-free website but both the added check and the SFS plugin should help with reducing malicious signups significantly. We encourage you to try the SFS plugin and feel free to leave us some feedback, positive or negative. Until next time Moc

2013-03-14T16:31:25-07:00 http://e107.org/blog/e107%20gets%20a%20new%20look 2011-12-27T23:35:07-08:00 CaMer0n

As many of you would have noticed, there's been some major (over-due) changes around here.We are very happy to finally reward the community with a new website design and a new logo. The new logo retains some of the elements of the 'old cube' which we made-do with for many years, while adding some new elements. It will be different for everyone, but personally, I like the 'expansion' aspect that it portrays - which I believe is fitting for the e107 CMS. There is another aspect which I find interesting in the logo, and that is that if you take each curved element, or combine, rotate some of them, etc. you could actually make something which resembles 'e107'. Maybe one day we'll animate this, because I'm sure I'm not explaining it very well. Comment to let me know if you see it. As you will have noticed, we have also changed our version numbering. Some believed e107 was still in beta, due to the '0.7.x' format, and for some time we have planned to change this (when the time was right), as e107 is certainly mature and stable enough to be a 'v1.0'. Consequently, what was known as v0.8, will now be known as v2.0, and yes, we do still have plans to release that soon. In version 1.0 of e107 we have introduced a new theme called 'core' which will be the default for new installations, and retired 'reline'. "Core" also includes a reworked admin-theme, which takes a little getting used to (for those who were using Jayya) but we have grown to prefer it's layout and navigation, and we hope you do too. The installation routine of e107 has also been reworked inside and out. (thanks to Daniel) We hope you like the new design of e107.org. It actually combines content of what was previously four separate sites: e107.org, plugins.e107.org, themes.e107.org and e107coders.org. Yes, I have finally retired the old e107coders.org site, which will be left online for legacy value (forums etc). There simply weren't enough hours in the day to maintain that old site, and for some years now I have dreamed of having everything combined together on e107.org as your see it now. As well as the plugins which were at plugins.e107.org - all the 0.7 plugins from e107coders.org have been imported also (about 350 of them - with dupes removed) as well as over 100,000 user accounts. (doing our best to avoid duplicates there too). So, if you had an account over there, you now have one here. So many changes have been made, I'm sure I've missed something. But I'd like to close here in saying that all the many changes you observe before you now would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of our development and design team. In particular, Miro, Stoev, Deso, Vesko and our new junior developer Daniel. Thank you guys - you're all geniuses in your fields! Anyway, here's to a great 2012 ahead for e107 and it's community. Cheers!

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