DG isn’t going anywhere.
OK, rather than continuing to edit, and edit, and edit the last unfortunate entry, I just deleted it.
Dumping Grounds is not going anywhere, and it looks like I probably stick with MovableType after all. I have taken several measures to stop the storm of spam, and lessen the load on the server.
I have renamed the script that handles comments, so that robots that just fire off signals to every server looking for mt-comments.cgi won’t get anything but a 404 from my site. Generating a 404 (and there are a lot of them) is MUCH less taxing on the server than interpreting a comment, storing it in the database, and then marking it as spam.
The script should not accept submissions from anything other than the comment pages on my site. The botted “comment generators” should have a hard time getting through, even if they DO find the spot on my site that handles comments at all.
I left MT-Blacklist in place. Anything that does submit a comment to my site is still going to be submitted to a set of filters that will not allow posts on frequent spam subjects.
There is still a new look and feel coming. I have a beta up, but I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. It’s not setting my heart of fire with desire. I’ll keep working on it.
BlogTunes is dangerously close to a 1.0 release, and I will get it running on the site. I should have it (not finished, but releasable) in about a week at the most. There’s several features that I need to add to make it competitive with other solutions on the market, but when it can upload formatted files to a web server, I’ll figure it’s ready to have folks hammer on it.
And then? I’d really get back to doing something fun on DG, posting photos, talking about politics, I dunno, all sorts of crap. After all, we’re about to have a nuclear enabled country declare war on Japan. Surely there is some good post material in that. I’ll make fun of Kim Jong Il, and see if I can get him to threaten me with a nuke.