Marcel van der Boom @mrb@mastodon.nl

New invite link for the https://qua.name #writefreely instance.

https://qua.name/invite/jwZQtK

#boostable

Keeping https://qua.name on invitations.

Here's some invites: https://qua.name/invite/g4jlGF

#writefreely #boostable

I think I will keep running the Qua #writefreely instance on invitation mode for a while. The amount of work to silence spam linkers is just too much.

To give people a chance to sign up without contacting me, I will start posting some invite links; weekly or so.

Here's the first:

https://qua.name/invite/V5d5vr

I've started working on some policy notes for https://qua.name to try to contain the marketing and link spam posts.

https://qua.name/info/qua-policy-notes

#writefreely #wip

I get lots of bogus account registrations on the https://qua.name #writefreely instance.

poker stuff and random links to businesses etc.

bit sad though, because there are no winners in that game, just wasted time and resources.

After forgetting to run '--migrate' for the umpteenth time, it's now part of the #ansible deploy script for #writefreely, so.. yay!

As usual, it literally takes 5 minutes to add it to the recipe, yet I find myself having lots of these "yeah, need to do that at some point" tasks lingering for months.

Now using an #sql trigger to prevent account updates to the https://qua.name demo account.

Even with such a small instance, there's a remarkable amount of attempts trying to change
the demo username and/or password.

The trigger is a nice solution to this, it let's me use the writefreely 'as is' and it
is a silent ignore on any attempt.

#writefreely

I have enabled a 'demo' account on #writefreely instance https://qua.name so people do not need to create accounts to try things out.

People seemed to be creating accounts just to try things for a bit and move on. This is obviously fine, but leaves accounts lingering and skews the statistics. The demo account is a bit of an experiment, as we all know what typically happens with demo accounts, but let's see what happens.