Hey guys,
Made some big strides today on the massive cleanup, which is basically years of P2L being on autopilot and not updated or spam controlled, and turned in to an Ad mine field. I've been working on the site the last few days and I have the following updates:
1. I've removed 64 pages of spam from the forums, mostly the ones dominating the general forum. I know there is a lot more, so please report spam via the forum reporting tool, it's easy to flag a post or thread and I will nuke it.
2. I installed anti-spam code to the forum
3. I removed all the crazy ads that were on tutorials within our Publishing System.
4. I've cleaned out the backlog of over 600 reported dead tutorials. I'm sure there's more so please don't be shy, report dead tutorials by clicking on the red report button within a tutorial listing.
5. I've cleaned out the backlog of tutorials pending approval.
6. I've identified some major bugs on the forum functionality and have hired a new developer to fix these issues, and if all goes well, he will continue to develop and fix P2L for a long time. You'll see him cruising the forums as airnayden.
For now he will be working on the following:
- Issue with a thread not refreshing when quick reply is used
- Database error when using full reply
- Threads/topics not reflecting the correct number of views, last user to reply and number of replies in thread listings.
- Several major issues with the admin panel preventing me from additional cleanups of the database.
I'll have more updates soon, so please bear with us as we tidy up. I know that the contact us page is broken so if you need to reach me and can't login to P2L for any reason, please use my personal blog contact page for now. You can find that at http://www.danrichard.com/contact/
Thanks and see you soon!
Dan