Defensio: Outsmarting Evil Spam

Good news!  

By popular request, we just started hosting our WordPress plugin code on GitHub!  You can now stay up-to-date with our development effort and even help us by implementing the features you want.

GitHub (and Git) make collaborating on software easy.  Everybody can now fork our plugin to implement new features or fix a bug.  We’ll be happy to integrate any changes we feel will benefit other users.

If you’re not that much of a coder, you can still help!  We definitely need people to test the freshly baked code you’ll find at GitHub.

Our GitHub page is at http://github.com/karabunga.  Oh… and if you don’t know what Git is yet, you should definitely check out PeepCode’s great video on the subject ($9, but worth every penny).

We have also created a ticket tracker at Lighthouse.  You can now submit your bugs or feature requests here: http://karabunga.lighthouseapp.com

Happy collaboration!

Another week, and yet another platform is adding support for Defensio.  This time, it’s Dotclear, a French blogging platform written by Olivier Meunier.  The plugin, made by Pep can be found right here on our main site.

Merci à Pep ainsi qu’à toute la communauté Dotclear.  Nous espérons vous aider dans votre lutte contre le spam!

There’s quite a bit of action in the blogosphere these days and many new platforms are making their entry. Recently, two of them added support for Defensio:

Habari, a “next-generation free software blogging platform” has gained quite a bit of momentum lately, It is considered a great alternative to WordPress. Plugin developer Matt Read had enough of spam and built a Defensio plugin for Habari.

Although it is still fairly new, the plugin is apparently very stable and ready to use. Thanks for the hard work Matt, and to all Habari users: welcome to Defensio!

Our other new friend is Aintablog (as in Ain’t a Blog), an open-source Tumblog and feed aggregator written in Ruby on Rails by Pat Nakajima. The author built support for Defensio right into the core of the application. We, obviously, think it is pure genius. Good luck with your new project, Pat!

For more information about Defensio support for these platforms, please see the Habari and Aintablog pages on our website.