December 09, 2004
Mathcaddy.com is Broken FIXED!
Well, mostly.
I have had a crazy adventure since about May/June. This site almost died thanks to massive comment spam and my flat stupidity with Jay Allen's MT Blacklist plugin for MovableTpe.
Everything was working fine until one day the old version of MT Blacklist went crazy on me. So I Upgraded MovableType and instead of running MT Blacklist, I decided to approve/disapprove every single comment... but when you're averaging a hundred spammed comments a day, you get disillusioned pretty darn fast. So I decided to install MT Blacklist... and that's where things went under the meat cleaver.
I won't go into any more details, because I have no desire to relive that. Screwing around with this site was one of my primary hobbies for the past few years, but all the massive troubleshooting I've had to do pretty much killed my joy.
But I'm back now.
In fact, to prove it, I'm going to go ahead and write something else! Something way more interesting! And informative! And...!
Okay, it will probably suck.
UPDATE: Apparently, I imagineered most of my problems. It really was only temporarily fixed. I was just one of many who seem to be having problems with mt-comments.cgi overloading my server.
Posted by Adam at December 9, 2004 12:13 AM
Maybe it works now.
Posted by: Adam at December 9, 2004 04:28 PM
looks to be fast right now!
Posted by: Mike at December 10, 2004 02:31 PM
Adam: I just now added mathcaddy.com AND your matchcaddy radio rss feeds to my yahoo page. I only now became aware that you were DOING this, so I am expecting great things. Uncle David in Yakima.........
Well, I guess I spoke too soon. It's not completely fixed. All CGI -- including comments -- is about as slow as a baked turnip crossing the pudding platter. (And boy golly, that's slow!)
Posted by: Adam at December 9, 2004 02:58 PM