CLEAN-UP, AND OTHER FUN STUFF!!!
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 BY: tgbob «
» POSTED ON: 1/11/2021 8:56:59 PM
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I'm actually writing something for real! How long has it been? Well, other than posting a couple videos, that is...

Anyway, since I'm mostly remaining absent from social media, I may end up posting more often on here, just as a way to collect my thoughts and such. I am also revisiting some of the functionality of my site and will be making some decisions as to where I take it in the future. Don't worry, I'm not going to be trashing it! But I will be updating a bunch of stuff as well as putting some much needed safeguards in place.

In fact, I've already put one in place! If anybody had checked out the Guestbook lately, you will no doubt see that it had been overrun by so much spam. So much garbage, some of which may have been either filler text or special characters to share who-knows-what (I didn't want to investigate, just in case), as well as links to nefarious sites, were flooding the entire page. I had already had some functionality in place to delete the offending messages, but when I've been gone for so long, the work would add up to remove those messages. Plus, I wasn't preventing the offenders from returning and doing it all over again.

Well, I've cleaned up the Guestbook, and have put some new functionality in place where I can (and will) drop the ban-hammer on offenders. I know initially, it will be a game of cat and mouse, but I'm going to be very diligent, especially over the next few weeks, as I crack down on the garbage being posted there. Hopefully, I will curb the rampant spamming there very soon.

Other future near-term updates will mostly be security-related, so stay tuned for that. One of the updates may require deleting or updating existing accounts, depending on activity. I need to run some tests on the code base before I start implementing that, but I'm hoping to get some major updates in place, then look into how to expand the site.

Anyway, I look forward to seeing this community thrive again!

-T.G.
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