Big deal. It's spam! Unfortunately, this is what happens to the vast majority of public web forums. Spammers create accounts and post crap. It's not even real humans doing it - just bots. And unless someone has specifically taken steps to stop spammy registrations or posting (which they haven't, it's a bog standard looking vBulletin installation), the bots will find the forum and it will get spammed.
Of course, it could be an actual human posting bad stuff just to cause drama. That tends to happen too, and again there's a name for it - Trolling. Still not a big deal though.
This stuff happens. Frequently. Yeah, it's annoying, but hardly the end of the world - and certainly no need to tell the BBC and have it plastered all over the news. Unless, of course, they're just after more publicity...
I've been working on this new website for far too long. It's still not done (but then again, is my personal website ever going to be 'complete'?), but I think it is at least now in a usable state, so here you go.
What's new?
I've recoded everything (not that you'd notice!). Or mostly everything, anyway. Still in php, obviously, but now vaguely object oriented and PHP5.
User accounts! No commenting without one, haha. There is a point to this - much as I'm intrigued by the idea of telling everyone on the internet every detail about my life, I can't do it. I'd much rather have some control over who's reading what - and not in a stalkerish way. So I've now got a proper setup for various 'levels' of posting - posts anyone can read, posts you can only see if logged in, and stuff that's a bit more personal that I only want friends/family/people I trust to read.
New domain name(s). It's still my name, but a bit more anonymous. ish.
Design. mmm, isn't it lovely and colourful? What do you mean your eyes are burning?! Pah, you think this is bad, you should see my desktop background...
more sidebar crap: 'miniblog' a la Twitter (but I feel I should point out that it is NOT powered by crappy twitter); music from last.fm, etc.
What's missing/still to come?
Photos. They'll be back soon.
Search. Although that might stay gone for a bit, seeing how it never gets used. And is half-broken
Javascript enhancements. I'm poking about with jQuery, which looks quite nice so far. But don't worry, it won't be evil javascript, and everything will work just fine without, unlike certain other websites (cough cough facebook cough)
I have various other features I'd like to add, or improve upon. Like I say, it'll never be finished
What might be broken?
anything. haha.
user accounts aren't fully functional yet
error messages might not be entirely helpful.
Q&A was playing up - I think it's fixed now, but who knows
Reports of any weird bugs appreciated. I've done lots of localhost testing and am still working through my own list of bugs, but chances are there are still things I've missed.
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