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There will be no more development for Atahualpa (or any other theme), and no support. Also no new registrations. I turned off the donation system. I may turn the forum to read only if it gets abused for spam. Unfortunately I have no time for the forum or the themes. Thanks a lot to the people who helped in all these years, especially Larry and of course: Paul. Take care and stay healthy -- Flynn, Atahualpa developer, Sep 2021

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Everyone can read but only donors can post


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Old Jun 17, 2011, 04:19 PM
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Flynn
 
3,768 posts · Oct 2008
Munich, Germany
Due to its high "pagerank" the forum has always been an attractive target for spammers, and it is only getting worse by the day.

Due to this write access on the forum is now limited to donors.

That means from now on you can only post if you are a donor. To become a donor donate 5 USD or more. See the donate page at http://forum.bytesforall.com/awcodin...payment&sid=ds (Scroll to the bottom of that page to see the various donor levels)



MANY non-donor questions have been answered here on the forum in the past. That should be proof enough that we are not greedy or something.

Also, there is already a lot of valuable information on the forum by now, and you can still READ without donating.
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Old Jun 17, 2011, 05:14 PM
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Flynn
 
3,768 posts · Oct 2008
Munich, Germany
Themeframe members get the additional usergroup "ThemeFrame Members" now.



There may be some temporary permission issues the new few days, which I will sort out as they occur
  #3  
Old Jun 17, 2011, 07:28 PM
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Jam
 
1,112 posts · Mar 2011
Perth, Western Australia
Good move Flynn.
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Old Jun 19, 2011, 06:59 AM
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KatyDigg
 
319 posts · Jul 2009
Excellent, thank you, Flynn.
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Old Jun 21, 2011, 06:49 AM
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Flynn
 
3,768 posts · Oct 2008
Munich, Germany
I postponed this change for a couple days until I am back from a journey.

It requires some potentially dangerous SQL queries and I am afraid my internet connection may get interruped in the middle of a SQL query.
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Old Jun 21, 2011, 06:33 PM
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Flynn
 
3,768 posts · Oct 2008
Munich, Germany
This should be active now.

Everyone can read


Only these users can POST:

Greenback Members (USD 5+ donation)
Gold Members (USD 20+ donation)
Diamond Members (USD 100+ donation)
ThemeFrame Members
  #7  
Old Jun 22, 2011, 10:08 AM
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mdmower
 
76 posts · Jul 2010
Missouri, USA
I foresee fewer bug reports, so problems may go unnoticed by web admins. Is there a chance you could set up an official bug tracker? Maybe Mantis, Bugzilla, or similar. It really would be nice to have a central location for feature requests and bug reports where viewers could see which issues are actively being worked on, and which are low priority.
  #8  
Old Jun 30, 2011, 05:56 AM
soluvente
 
3 posts · Jun 2011
Thank you,
I'll upgrade my membership probably later ( Greenback currently)

regards,

Quote:
Originally Posted by Flynn
This should be active now.

Everyone can read


Only these users can POST:

Greenback Members (USD 5+ donation)
Gold Members (USD 20+ donation)
Diamond Members (USD 100+ donation)
ThemeFrame Members
  #9  
Old Aug 10, 2011, 09:21 PM
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Flynn
 
3,768 posts · Oct 2008
Munich, Germany
The forum is open again for everyone

Looks like 99% of the spam bots are stopped now

I just put 9,000 accounts that most likely were bot accounts into a special user group that cannot do anything.

Tomorrow another few thousand accounts will be put there and then deleted after a while
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Old Aug 10, 2011, 10:35 PM
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Flynn
 
3,768 posts · Oct 2008
Munich, Germany
16,500 spammers are now in quarantine. Looks like we're getting rid of this after all

I will look into the remaining 3-5,000 tomorrow

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