FlakBait wrote:
Thanks for the wakeup-call.
At the current state of the project, I'm not as worried regarding spamming as there isn't much of an importance on files and databases. I have backups. But the future security is indeed a concern of mine. And regarding peoples....'manners' online, that's no surprise to me either. We will see. I'm still fairly new to this but you learn from this stuff eventually and that's what I'm looking for. Because this project is only means to a bigger one I want to attempt at some point. Although this doesn't mean I'm not trying my best here. Overall, that's why I would like people to try and test what I coded till now so we realize problems as early as possible.
At the moment, I have noone at hand that I know enough (and trust, as those go often hand in hand) to monitor Brawna 2.0 at a given point. And after all, this isn't like a forum where you have to have your eyes everywhere. I don't know how Brawna worked back in the days, but it seemed fairly fine to me. Because, after all, what much is there? Posting stories, searching for them, commenting and rating. That's it. The only things that could come up in my mind are offensive stories or comments. And for them, I plan on adding a report system.
So speaking as de facto admin for Amaz0ns, I can not overstate the importance of SPAM protection, both registration and regular checks of the users email addresses. This site has gone through periods where it's slammed with bots and god knows what else hitting us multiple times in only a minute and its a big drag on the site. Comment policing can be a problem too, I know this might be hard to believe but people on the internet can be mean....no seriously.... Just be sure you know what you're getting in to, it's not all web site design and content, you also need to factor in maintenance and community management. So be sure when you're ready to start it you at least have a couple people you can trust to handle things properly because while comments and members can cause problems anyone that's been a member of any internet forum can tell you nothing kills a site faster then bad moderators.
Just something I haven't seen anyone else mention yet.
Just something I haven't seen anyone else mention yet.
Thanks for the wakeup-call.
At the current state of the project, I'm not as worried regarding spamming as there isn't much of an importance on files and databases. I have backups. But the future security is indeed a concern of mine. And regarding peoples....'manners' online, that's no surprise to me either. We will see. I'm still fairly new to this but you learn from this stuff eventually and that's what I'm looking for. Because this project is only means to a bigger one I want to attempt at some point. Although this doesn't mean I'm not trying my best here. Overall, that's why I would like people to try and test what I coded till now so we realize problems as early as possible.
At the moment, I have noone at hand that I know enough (and trust, as those go often hand in hand) to monitor Brawna 2.0 at a given point. And after all, this isn't like a forum where you have to have your eyes everywhere. I don't know how Brawna worked back in the days, but it seemed fairly fine to me. Because, after all, what much is there? Posting stories, searching for them, commenting and rating. That's it. The only things that could come up in my mind are offensive stories or comments. And for them, I plan on adding a report system.