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153 Protecting Drupal 8 Sites From Spam Using Honeypot with Jeff Geerling - Modules Unraveled Podcast

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Honeypot

  • What is the Honeypot module?
  • What prompted you to contribute the Honeypot module? Why was it originally created?
    Flocknote (two employers ago) user registration
    A bunch of my blogs / comments
  • What methods or techniques does honeypot use to detect bots?
    A literal ‘honeypot’
    Time delay
  • What types of foms can it protect?
  • What’s different about Honeypot vs. other spam prevention modules like CAPTCHA and Mollom?
    Avoid punishing the user (explain)

Drupal 8 and Future of Honeypot

  • How did the port of Honeypot to Drupal 8 go?
  • Have you started developing new sites in Drupal 8? And if so, how’s that going?
  • How have spammers adapted to tools like Honeypot, and how do you try to keep ahead of them?” “More spam getting through Honeypot lately” (https://www.drupal.org/node/2646380)

Community Issues

  • You’re also involved a bit in other open source communities for projects like Ansible. How does the Drupal community compare? What are some things you would like to see improved?
  • Is there anything you’ve done to make sure you can continue to maintain this open source project among many others both on drupal.org and github, and not get burned out?