Good news everyone! Two big updates have taken place at SoLinkable in the past few days. You may not have noticed, but we were busy working behind the scenes. The two main areas of focus were security and spam filters.
First off, SoLinkable has been upgraded to SWCMS v1.1. This update offers numerous security and stability fixes, but little in the way of increased features. So, as a user, you shouldn’t notice anything at all – SoLinkable should keep working as it was before. If you have noticed anything strange going on lately, be sure to notify us.
Though security hasn’t been an issue on SoLinkable as of yet, we like to remain proactive in this respect. With the recent high-profile hackings of other notable pligg sites (ie. Design Float), security around the pligg community has been of utmost concern. As a reminder (if anyone read my old blog post about it), security fixes were one of the most important factors in our decision to switch to the SWCMS system.
Secondly, we have implemented the Askimet wordpress plugin. We have high hopes for this one. It has become one of the leaders in comment spam prevention, and we hope that transfers to social bookmarking spam as well. It is still in testing, and not completely implemented as of yet. If we find that it’s catching spam, we will turn it on fully, allowing it to automatically hold back links which it deems spammy. This, combined with the submit anti-spam tool has the posibility to greatly reduce the number of spam submissions here on SoLinkable.
Thanks and keep up the linking!