Comment spam has been growing every day and I received number of requests from vbCity bloggers to do something about that.
So I did.
I googled for a comment spam solution for .TEXT and found ASP.NET Captcha control by Miguel Jiménez that I liked. Adding it to .TEXT was a snap - literally two lines in one of the .ascx files.
Today I updated all skins for vbCity Blogs with the Captcha control.
There are two minor issues with the control at the moment:
- if visitor enters the phrase wrong, you lose everything you typed in
- to delete comment you will have to enter the phrase. Alternatively you can delete comments in the admin piece.
Both issues can only be resolved by recompiling the .TEXT code. Unfortunatelly I rebuilt my dev machine few months ago and now VS.NET doesn't open .TEXT project even though everything looks correct. I will fix both issues when I manage to open the project :)