Of the 21,272 registered users 17,546 of them have equal registration and last visit dates, meaning they never signed in again after creating their account. Obviously almost all of them are bots. I'll prune them at the right time but first maybe we should send out an email to all of them, as there are real people behind some of those unused accounts that might still be interested. I held onto this account since 2008 without a post until 2014, and I'm glad it hadn't been pruned. I might've had an older one that was pruned.
Meanwhile I added a security question plugin to the registration page with simple Digimon trivia. We'll see if that stops the bots that are still signing up.
When we transition to totally new server code I'll either import the current data and/or make a mirror/torrent of the old site like the DHZ one. Will the new site perform better than other popular art sites? That depends on more factors than what it's coded in - mainly that they have more and better hardware than we will likely ever have, haha.
Oh and I might as well just ask here: If anyone has access to old accounts related to the DaD please get in contact with me. I don't yet have access to the submission emails like digiartistsdomain @ live.com or older ones, or anything else related like analytics or those banner ads I keep forgetting about. I'm not sure who does anymore, if anyone.
Meanwhile I added a security question plugin to the registration page with simple Digimon trivia. We'll see if that stops the bots that are still signing up.
When we transition to totally new server code I'll either import the current data and/or make a mirror/torrent of the old site like the DHZ one. Will the new site perform better than other popular art sites? That depends on more factors than what it's coded in - mainly that they have more and better hardware than we will likely ever have, haha.
Oh and I might as well just ask here: If anyone has access to old accounts related to the DaD please get in contact with me. I don't yet have access to the submission emails like digiartistsdomain @ live.com or older ones, or anything else related like analytics or those banner ads I keep forgetting about. I'm not sure who does anymore, if anyone.