Forum Registration

[PaulB]

I've disabled user-activated account activation for the forum to deter the spammers who are constantly abusing the system.

Instead, new people will have to be activated at this end. Sorry if this inconveniences anyone!

[PaulB]

The forum has had a (slight) upgrade which caused to go offline for a bit. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Meanwhile, we also had a huge back-up of new accounts waiting to be activated. I've now dealt with all those (and also deleted all the usual spammers).

[chiaki_rocks]

C'était très bien mais pourquoi est le forum maintenant en français ?

Membres? Rechercher?

[sayuna]

C'était très bien mais pourquoi est le forum maintenant en français ?

Membres? Rechercher?

may be their going international?
i can read french but not write it i will have to reply in bad italian to keep up international theme -
so
e una possibilita loro sono vorrei una audience pui internationale
(i thought of another reason but in italian its not printable so ill be quiete now)

[Sensei|Faramon]

NOOOoooooo other languages .... youve found my weakness *rides into the sunset on a small clown bicycle shouting VIVA LE REVOLUTIONNNNN*

[PaulB]

I've had to block a number of web-based email accounts from registering in a bid to stop a huge chunk of spammers from getting anywhere near the Forum.

This includes Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo email addys. Sorry if this causes issues for anyone genuine wanting to register, but every day sees the forum hammered with these idiots and they have to be deleted by hand.

[Azure]

Have you put a note on the forum registration page? Might be a good idea to warn potential new forumers of the wait.

[PaulB]

^ Good point. I'll have to make amendments and flag that up.

[PaulB]

Sorry for any disruption on the forum today. A scumbag spammer got through and hammered the forum with posts. CHARMING PEOPLES.

[PaulB]

There were a few problems with the forum that prevented people from registering. If that affected you, then please try again now ^_^

[Neostar]

hey hey glad to see this place is still alive after i've been away for so long

anyway i've noticed gmail is disabled on this forum, that might be a problem as now i can't change the email address i use, the one i used to register is now dead so any chance of allowing gmail

[PaulB]

Hi Neostar, most web-based emails are blocked as those are the email addys that spammers plague the forum with. Unfortunately that does catch out some genuine people.

You should be able to change it in your profile, but it will lock your account. But I can unlock it from this end. I'll check later this evening and fix it up.

Alternatively, just email me via the J-Pop Go site and I'll switch your email over manually.