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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst | 26 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mediagoblin.example.ini | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mediagoblin/config_spec.ini | 2 |
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diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst index 8a8c19ac..caebf490 100644 --- a/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst +++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst @@ -317,9 +317,6 @@ your own email address and enter a secure password when prompted:: $ ./bin/gmg adduser --username you --email you@example.com $ ./bin/gmg makeadmin you -Public registrations is disabled by default due to automated spam -registrations. For more details, see ":ref:`enable-registration`" - Test the Server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst index 04eb5366..78342d99 100644 --- a/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst +++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/relnotes.rst @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ This chapter has important information about our current and previous releases. - Remove Debian 10 development Dockerfile (BenSturmfels) - Document running multiple MediaGoblin instances on one server (Ben Sturmfels) - Begin conversion from jQuery to vanilla JS (Ben Sturmfels) -- Disable registration by default due to spam (Ben Sturmfels) **Bug fixes:** diff --git a/mediagoblin.example.ini b/mediagoblin.example.ini index 1a2216a5..6da625b6 100644 --- a/mediagoblin.example.ini +++ b/mediagoblin.example.ini @@ -27,9 +27,8 @@ email_debug_mode = true # email_smtp_host = "" # email_smtp_port = 0 -# Set to true to enable registrations. We recommend reading "Should I Keep Open -# Registration Enabled?" in the production deployment documentation first. -allow_registration = false +# Set to false to disable registrations +allow_registration = true # Set to false to disable the ability for users to report offensive content allow_reporting = true diff --git a/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini b/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini index 80e7f268..9025a436 100644 --- a/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini +++ b/mediagoblin/config_spec.ini @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ email_smtp_pass = string(default=None) # Set to false to disable registrations -allow_registration = boolean(default=False) +allow_registration = boolean(default=True) # tag parsing tags_max_length = integer(default=255) |