I would vote for a CAPTCHA... specifically recaptcha http://www.google.com/recaptcha/whyrecaptcha
-Kevin On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Bastian Schnuerle <bastian.schnue...@silberstein.de> wrote: > just did wordpress for a friend .. looks nice .. +1 .. > > Am 05.04.2012 um 21:50 schrieb douglas repetto: > > >> >> I think even Wordpress would work very well for the content on >> musicdsp.org. I agree a full drupal site seems like overkill! >> >> douglas >> >> On 4/5/12 10:05 AM, Bjorn Roche wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Ross Bencina wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Bjorn, >>>> >>>> On 5/04/2012 1:52 AM, Bjorn Roche wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Any thoughts about modernizing the whole thing with a fresh CMS? >>>>> I think it would be easier to maintain, have built-in spam >>>>> filters, and it would be easier to have multiple people do the >>>>> work. Plus it would look more attractive. I don't think it would >>>>> take much effort to redo the whole thing in, say, drupal. >>>> >>>> >>>> Have you ever set up a Drupal site? I have. It is not for >>>> small-time, non-commercial, low-maintenance overhead projects >>>> imho. >>> >>> >>> Yes. Quite a few. >>> >>>> Imho it would be a huge job to port the current site to Drupal and >>>> there is a lot of ongoing maintenance required to keep security >>>> patches up to date etc etc. >>> >>> >>> Yes. The biggest problem is security updates. You are right: major >>> PITA factor. This can be mitigated by a hosted solution, or a >>> multi-site install where someone is already monitoring the site for >>> security updates. But, at the end of the day, that might not be >>> realistic. >>> >>>> Doing the theme port alone would be a lot of work. >>> >>> >>> I would not dream of porting the existing theme, but rather use a >>> new, or built-in theme. >>> >>>> Unless I'm completely out of touch it is really non-trivial to set >>>> up something like musicdsp.org in Drupal with adequate spam >>>> filtering. The standard Drupal capcha solution (Mollom) is not >>>> great -- in my experience it flags a lot of false positives (spam >>>> that isn't spam). >>> >>> >>> Mollom sucks. Captchas alone catch the vast majority of spam. The >>> rest can be handled with moderation. >>> >>>> Anyway, this is really just a vote against Drupal for musicdsp.org, >>>> not against using a CMS. >>>> >>>> I actually think the current ad-hoc php solution is not so bad -- >>>> but Bram knows more about these things than me. >>> >>> >>> Recaptcha could be added to the existing site with fairly little >>> effort, but there are other advantages to a CMS: they are easier to >>> team-manage, organize, and they have a number of potentially useful >>> features like taxonomies (giving the ability to tag and categorize >>> algos by language and purpose for example.) >>> >>> bjorn >>> >>> ----------------------------- Bjorn Roche http://www.xonami.com Audio >>> Collaboration http://blog.bjornroche.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >>> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book >>> reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >>> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp >>> >> >> -- >> ............................................... http://artbots.org >> .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org >> .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> ...........repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism >> ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas >> >> -- >> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, >> dsp links >> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp > links > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
