I had a longer post in mind and I might post it another time but for now, fuck it. Spam filtering is working now though, fuck yeah.

EDIT: Well it's not perfect but it's only let one piece of spam through so far but I guess I need to get the rest of the akismet integration set up so I can refine the results.

So the spambots work overtime. I have a "Delete" button for comments and I'm considering wiring the comment system to rspamd so I can have spammy comments sent for review before I allow them to be posted (this will be extremely easy, courtesy of another neat, unintended interaction between how comments work and how drafts work; emergent features are a big part of how you know your architecture is good!), so I'm less bothered and more interested by how and what they're posting.

At least some positive news today: They're working! Try it out!

Let me know what you think in the comments down below!

Edit: lmao I've already had and deleted my first piece of spam. They work quick.

Fuck.

Fuck

FUCK

It doesn't work yet, but if you look at the foot of my last post you can see what comments will look like and what the commenting interface is. There's also a neat feature I didn't intend but got for free where comments can be linked to directly as posts, so that's pretty cool. Anyway, I'm going to have posting comments working in the next few days and then hopefully I can move on to posting things that aren't navel-gazing so much.