Pluralsight's wiki is back in full operation once again. For several months we have turned off editing because of the barrage of spamdexing that has included links to anything and everything from online gambling sites to child pornography. We simply couldn't keep up with the bots, and it was getting rather embarrassing.
In order to get things up and running, we sponsored some of Craig's time to update FlexWiki (which is an open source product) with CAPTCHA. So now when you make changes to a wiki, if you add any links, you'll be required to go through the same validation that you see when you leave a comment on one of our blogs.
That should help slow down the attackers enough that we can keep the wikis editable. Also note that if the wiki feels a little slower to use now, it's because caching has been turned off in this version (v2 beta). We'll have caching back on at some point, so bear with us for now. Thanks!
Posted
May 31 2007, 11:16 AM
by
keith-brown