Michael Manfre has created a plugin for Textpattern . You can download the plugin from his website and have protection from the spam. Thanks Michael!
Year: 2008
A trio of developments
The latest release of Gallery (2.3) now has Akismet support built in. Thanks to Chris for letting us know.
Kevin at BIGACE CMS has developed a commenting extension which uses Akismet.
And lastly but by no means least the latest version of vBulletin blog also has Akismet support by default.
Akismet 2.2.1 — Now With Stats!
If you upgraded to Akismet 2.2, you likely noticed a cool new feature: Akismet stats. We’ve now released Akismet 2.2.1, which includes a few bug fixes.
Akismet stats track your comment metrics, including missed spam, false positives (Akismet thought it was spam, but you disagreed), and Yummy Pie, which displays your ham vs. spam count in a nifty pie chart.
What’s ham? The good stuff. Delicious, legitimate comments. Spam is the non-legitimate filler that Akismet excels at blocking.
We’ve also made significant backend changes to speed up Akismet’s response time. If you think a comment is spam (or ham), the system will now adapt instantly to your feedback — a major improvement over the old adaptation time, which could take a few days.
Akismet Plugin for Akelos PHP Framework
Bermi Ferrer wrote an Akismet plugin for the Akelos PHP Framework, a Rails port to PHP. Check out his documentation on the Akelos wiki and grab the code here.
Akismet for Django
Aydin Mirzaee, an undergraduate student at McGill University, Samuel Cormier-Iijima has whipped up some handy code to incorporate Akismet with Django’s new comments framework. Python geeks, enjoy 🙂
The Guardian on Akismet
The Guardian’s Michael Pollitt says some kind words about Akismet in today’s Technology section, as he notes that Comment spammers never take a holiday.
Mullenweg publishes a graph on Akismet.com which shows comments being exceeded by daily spam peaks of more than 25m. Checking out the spam blocked counter on my blog is satisfying, showing that the spammers are going nowhere fast.
As an experiment, I turned off my spam protection to watch the spam-a-minute flow.
Codeigniter Library
There is a new Code Igniter library for working with Akismet built by Elliot Haughin.
Code Igniter is a new PHP framework by our friends at Ellis Labs, the makers of pMachine and Expression Engine.
Using HTTP 1.1
If you’re using HTTP 1.1 in your Akismet client, or the one in PEAR, there’s a bug that could cause your client to timeout.
The problem does not lie with Akismet servers, the problem lies in an incorrect implementation of HTTP/1.1 persistent connections in the Akismet class. The Akismet API servers support persistent connections for HTTP/1.1 but the class is not written to use persistent connections. Specifying a ‘Connection: close’ header will fix the problem for HTTP/1.1.
