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| author | Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> | 2021-09-12 22:51:15 +1000 |
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| committer | Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> | 2021-09-12 22:51:51 +1000 |
| commit | 54c610b5fee919acc8b70e86ea8449ed8acbc9f4 (patch) | |
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Revert "Disable registrations by default due to spam."
Turns out this breaks tests. Will attempt again when I have time to deal with
the tests.
This reverts commit 120f144f0eb014e694a584a627c8b17856da5b51.
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diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst index 022d8175..52563e6e 100644 --- a/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst +++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst @@ -18,30 +18,28 @@ Further Considerations for Production Deployments This page extends upon our ":doc:`deploying`" guide to describe some common issues affecting production deployments. -.. _enable-registration: Should I Keep Open Registration Enabled? ---------------------------------------- -Unfortunately, enabling public registrations in MediaGoblin will usually result -in many thousands of automated spam registrations. Spam accounts will typically -remain un-activated, but the volume alone may cause poor performance on your -site. For this reason, registrations are disabled by default and we recommend -against enabling public registration. +Unfortunately, in this current release of MediaGoblin we are suffering +from spammers registering to public instances en masse. As such, you +may want to either: -Should you choose to enable registration, you can update in your mediagoblin.ini -like so:: +a) Disable registration on your instance and just make + accounts for people you know and trust (eg via the `gmg adduser` + command). You can disable registration in your mediagoblin.ini + like so:: [mediagoblin] allow_registration = false -Alternatively, you may wish to just make accounts for people you know and trust -(eg via the `gmg adduser` command). +b) Enable a CAPTCHA plugin. But unfortunately, though some CAPTCHA + plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general + recommendations we can make at this point. -A further option may be to enable a CAPTCHA plugin. But unfortunately, though -some CAPTCHA plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general -recommendations we can make at this point. We hope to provide a better solution -to this problem in the future. +We hope to have a better solution to this situation shortly. We +apologize for the inconvenience in the meanwhile. Confidential Files |