The coding blog of Alastair Smith, a software developer based in Cambridge, UK. Interested in DevOps, Azure, Kubernetes, .NET Core, and VueJS.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been suffering quite badly from trackback spam. I dread to think what it’s done to my Google ranking (and related search terms), and what impact it’s had on my bandwidth consumption. That aside, as Tim suggested, I have re-enabled Akismet. We’ll see whether this sorts out the problem, although I’m quite hopeful.
I’m afraid this does have a knock-on effect for you, dear reader. The Akismet module for Drupal is still undergoing the upgrade to Drupal 6 and is still a bit buggy… As such, when you submit a comment, you will end up with a blank screen; the module calls through to a function that was removed in Drupal 6. This has been logged as a bug, and I’ve looked into it myself in some detail, but haven’t worked out how to resolve it yet. There’s no patch available to resolve this issue yet, and from the module homepage:
Sept 5, 2008 Update: this module is pretty unsupported at this point.
My apologies for the inconvenience. If it starts to annoy you, please leave a comment saying so ;-) More seriously, drop me an email using the contact form and I’ll look for an alternative solution.