Akismet

JediKev

Hello All,

I have Flarum Beta 9 and recently installed the Akismet extension. I installed the extension (composer require flarum/akismet), I flushed the cache just in case (php flarum cache:clear), I enabled the extension, entered my API Key, and Saved Changes. Now, a day later when I visit the Akismet site and view my stats it says 0 Sites. Is it supposed to say 0 Sites or is there an issue with my setup somewhere?

Update:
I also ran the migrations again (php flarum migrate) just in case and nothing needed migration.

Cheers.

JediKev

I'm assuming my site isn't making calls to the Akismet API.

JediKev

Update:
I see nothing in my access logs nor error logs on the server. I don't even see where it's making any API calls to Akismet. 🤔

Any update would be appreciated.

Cheers.

JediKev

4 days and still no "sites" appearing on Akismet. I then did the API test from my commandline using Curl and I got the appropriate response (see snippet below). I do not think the extension is working properly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

user@hostname:~$ curl -d "key=[API_KEY]&blog=[SITE].com&comment_type=forum-post&user_ip=1.1.1.1&comment_author=viagratest123&comment_author_email=viagra123@example.com&comment_content=asdfa lsdgjsdg." -X POST https://[API_KEY].rest.akismet.com/1.1/comment-check
true
user@hostname:~$

JediKev

Just confirmed with Akismet support that there has only been one API call from my Forum to Akismet in the past 6 months. There is indeed an issue with the extension.

Posting an issue on GitHub:

flarum/core1880

luceos

JediKev thank you! Great due diligence 👍️

JediKev

@luceos and Friends,

Just a heads up the issue is with the operator (me) not the ship! lol

Basically, @datitisev pointed out here that in order for the Akismet extension to work properly the Users must not have a Group. All of our Users are auto-added to groups on Sign-up so that we don't have to do this manually; ergo the extension is not working for us. Testing the extension with a User with no group works just fine! So I will modify the extension to not check for groups and we should be back in business! Whoop whoop!

I'd like to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for an amazing product and community. 🎉🥂

Cheers.

JediKev

@luceos

Do you know if anyone is maintaining the Akismet extension? It's not listed anywhere nor has any documentation on how to use it, etc.

Cheers.

datitisev

JediKev As it is a core extension, Flarum itself maintains it.