LES - Progress Update - 19th July 2026

AnthonySmith

Thought I would provide another update.

The PHP and MariaDB conversion is complete, I now have a fully functional vanilla 3.x (if you can still call it that) running on PHP 8.4.22 and MariaDB 11.8.8, even the polls plugin works

All the plugins are now going to be written in the development version and tested there. Once it is done, I will schedule some downtime and move LES to the new server with the new code base, but I will continue to provide updates anyway so you know what's coming when the switch is made.

Doing it this way to save having to make a 7.x version and an 8.x version then change after.

Plugin: Necro Post Gate done in dev version

Before necro

After

When done, negative karma will count x2 for necro posting.

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Plugin: Flagged posts

This one will show you if a post has already been flagged and how many times, you can add weight to it by also flagging or you can just see it has already been reported and ignore it.

A mod/admin can take whatever action, and then this indicator will clear.

If a threshold is hit the post will be automatically hidden. This threshold is set lower for <XX day accounts, so for example, if someone signs up from PurplePeopleHost and immediately starts advertising, ignoring the rules, 5 flags would basically remove the post, so only mod/admins can see it.

somik

@AnthonySmith said:
someone signs up from PurplePeopleHost

Wont that be being racist towards purple people?

AnthonySmith

The admin side pattern automod plugin has also been done (a basic version)

Simple text replace on post or URL, auto block for known spammers and new accounts>

Nothing added yet, it won't be used lightly, but essentially if you write #dicks it will say #donkey when you post or if you create a link for https://hammertime.com when posted it will be https://www.colocrossing.com/ when posted etc etc.

AnthonySmith

@somik said: Wont that be being racist towards purple people?

I did not really want to admit this so publicly, but I am a racist against purple people specifically, sorry if that disappoints anyone.