New Article Directory Website using Deluxe

[echo@]

Please feel free to submit your articles at http://www.articleconveyer.com

Feedback welcome

Thanks

[CEC]

it looks outstanding. fantastic.
best of luck with it!

[echo@]

Thank you

[Bruceper]

I sure like that theme

[Mitchell]

Best wishes, excellent site.

[Mitchell]

Just letting you know that I tired to register on your site, I received the message that a confirmation email was sent to me but I never received the confirmation email.

Make sure that others can register to write articles.

[echo@]

Thanks for trying michell , i will look into this, not to sure why this would happen as the domain is new and wouldent be in a mail blacklist, ill speek to my host.

I would advise re-registering but with a diffrent email as email does work, I received a new listing/member today.

Now this is an intresting one and possiblly a bug with indexu, im glad this has happened as i noticed it before but couldnt be bothered to explain.

So here goes.

1. user registers to become member (either with a correct email or not)
2. user never gets the activation email/url
3. user cannot re-register with the same username as the user already exists
4. click on member list and the user displays (in the front end) i.e mitchell, since 02-Sep-2008
5. go into the back end and the user seems to not exist, (indexu does not display the un-activated user)

so either people or bots could effectively fill the member listing with duff users and the administrator has no easy way to remove the users, let alone determine the status of the users. only way i do it is through phpmyadmin.

Ideally
I would like to see the users in the backend with there status

1. activated
2. not activated

and most importantlly not activated user shouldn't be displayed in the frontend only??? wtf??

for example a bot registers just to get its url in the member listing (obviously I remove this privilege from the user templates)

the bot isnt going to follow the activation url in the email sent to it,

So indexu just willingly displays the infomation in the member list for google to index


If this is not a bug its certainly close to one .

Nicecoder please confirm

[Bruceper]

Mail could be getting killed at the server depending on the servers configuration. Some hosts do not allow the user nobody to send mail. Try using SMTP instead of PHP.

As for the member list this has been discussed previously many times. The easiest thing to do is disable that page.

[echo@]

Ok changed the mail setting to smtp and tested, go ahead and try again michell

Thanks , but this does suck, what happens if you want a member list?

If its been a problem why hasent it been fixed, removing the member list is not a fix. what happens to the entrys in the tables/database, just forget about them.

I dont like this, sorry

[Bruceper]

You can also edit the members list to remove URL's, that's the easiest way to go about it and still have a members list.

Personally I see no reason to have a members list at all. But having the ability to easily change what is on the members list has been on my to-do list for a while. Once 1.1 is released then it will be added to the to-do list for the next version.

[Mitchell]

Ok changed the mail setting to smtp and tested, go ahead and try again michell

It worked now, but I couldn't use the user name that I used yesterday, it told me that the user name is taken so I had to come up with a different one.

[Bruceper]

The username was taken already, so of course you could not re-register it. Of course you could delete it from the database if you wanted to.

[echo@]

Ok this is just an idea, but to me its a handicap of indexu.

now several weeks on i have many users registered my indexu, some of them are spammers or bots that have managed to register.

Ok you know about the problem above but i have noticed another.

I would really like to see ("easily") what users are genuine and what are fake.

an easy way to do this would be to list next to the username the ammount of listings each user has subbmitted. This would be is the backend.

I find the user managment in the backend is basic in its usabillity.

It could be structured better, I will have a think about this and post back later.

[Bruceper]

This might have been better off as a seperate thread, because this could turn into a discussion.

Yes the user management in the backend is simplistic. One of my goals for October is to get the programmers to work on the back end (admin) area of IndexU and improve it with tools, expanded options and capabilities and things like that.

I already got them to add the meta fetch tools to the admin panel which is a great tool. I have other suggestions for them as well and some of them mean changes to the front of the script as well as the back end.

With more options and control in the back end it will only make IndexU a more powerful script.

[mpdaddy]

echo

This might be better off seperated into a different thread as Bruce suggested. I want to know more about what you are looking for. I think this would work well as a plugin, but I need to hear more about what you or others want to accomplish.

Regards
Wayne