Forum Activity for @claygordon

are these hack attacks and any way to filter them

Installation and Configuration

Did you hear about China doing a DDOS on a security research blog? Rather than just bouncing requests, they redirected the requests to a small number of sites.

I am wondering if, with mod_rewrite or some Apache something, you could redirect the requests to /wp any subdirectory back to the requesting host? The more they ping you the more you ping them back?

If so - I'd be happy to add that to mine as they are not going to go away and as they might be phishing bots they are certainly going to ignore your robots.txt file.

Some funky things happening on cloned skins when styling

Design and Skin Customization

Thanks.

I had a similar problem early on where I was making changes using the ACP Styles Editor where I changed something and the results where not what I expected at all and to get it fixed required an update. So, I tend to want to make changes in the CSS when I can. I have downloaded a local copy that I edit and FTP up the changes.

It's been a long time since I did any serious CSS and even then it was not so serious.

Images on profile tabs - is it possible?

Design and Skin Customization

Thanks!

I was looking at the profile menu looks with the images on it and it's very cool. Without very little effort you could reverse it as well so the images appeared on the mouseover.

I noticed in another screenshot you'd added cascading menus ... something else I want to try. I'd like to put Vimeo and YouTube under Videos - the same way they are in the top nav to save space and be consistent.

Some funky things happening on cloned skins when styling

Design and Skin Customization


John -

Are you replacing one of the stock skin images in the ACP or modifying the template code (and where) to add the image?

TIA,

Some funky things happening on cloned skins when styling

Design and Skin Customization

@john-bizley

Off topic ... but I noticed in the first screenshot that you moved the main menu below the header. I want to do this on my site ... using a variation of the same style sheet class used for the profile menus. Would appreciate pointers on how to move the menu.

I am using the Ningja skin w/o Site Builder.

TIA,
:: Clay

Images on profile tabs - is it possible?

Design and Skin Customization

John -

I am really enjoying watching your work and your sharing it.

These are very neat CSS tricks. One thing I would suggest - if you plan to put this into production - is to work with smaller image files. I am the end of a relatively slow connection and it takes a while for the images to download and scale. Just a thought.

I am also interested in the CSS for the rounded corners in the headers of the content areas and the shadows. So - maybe a CSS tweaks thread would be a way to share those? I added the rounded corners to my profile menus last night and it's a subtle - and meaningful difference.

Cheers!
:: Clay

Feature Request - Email scrubbing

Installation and Configuration


Brian -

I don't think that my need is unique - I think I am just the first person to have brought it up. I think it's going to turn up in a large percentage of Ning migrations. Ning stopped forwarding bounces to my member broadcast emails so I have no way of knowing which accounts - and for how long - have been unreachable. If I get a lot of bounces I want a way to process them in an automated fashion.

I don't know where the member has claimed account flag is - Brian will know. I don't think it shows up on either the User Account or User Profile forms. Also, imported accounts are set to active so that their content is visible even if they haven't claimed the account. Most of the script is there, the only major changes are to accept a list of email addresses and to turn off all notifications.

I am not competent to write a script that will do this without the risk of seriously mucking up the member database table.

Feature Request - Email scrubbing

Installation and Configuration

SO - that does not solve my problem.

The issue is bounces I got from sending out the Ning invite email. I want to process those bounces in a way that prevents me from sending out invites to accounts I know will bounce - without having to do it manually - and even then I still need to set the "Member has claimed account" flag manually and I don't know how to do that.

Feature Request - Email scrubbing

Installation and Configuration

Brian -

I don't have any subscribers at the moment, so that does not appear to be the solution.
I don't want to delete the accounts, for the reasons mentioned.

If I set the bounce to inactive then they are still in the system but none of their content can be seen by anyone, correct?

Also - just to be sure - When I resend the Ning Invite email it won't be sent to the accounts I've made inactive.

Feature Request - Email scrubbing

Installation and Configuration

My first attempt to send the email to members to claim their accounts was stopped by Mailgun about the time I sent out the first 1000 invites because of a high bounce rate (~5%). These were bounces from email addresses that were no longer reachable for some reason.

If I have 10,000 members then I can expect 500 or so bad accounts and I need to search for and change them one at a time. Sounds like something a program should be written to do. lol

I don't actually want to delete the accounts as some of them have posted interesting content and there is a chance that the owner might show up at some point in the future to reclaim the account.

What I would like to have is a script that I can run:

The system creates a quota called "Do Not Mail" if it does not already exist. Notifications are all set to off for members in this quota but I can set module permissions to whatever I want (so I can display any content).

I enter a list of bounced email addresses from (e.g., Mailgun), 1 per line.

The script moves the profile into the "Do Not Mail" quota, sets the notifications all to off, and sets the "the user has claimed their account" flag so when I send the Ning Invite email that email does not get sent to accounts in the "Do Not Mail" quota.

updated by @claygordon: 03/29/15 01:23:40PM