tonight i learned a large amount of the traffic to my site has been generated by spambots. i kind of already assumed this, but there was something being infected mercilessly i had forgotten about.

back when i first set up this site, i also set up a forum for the site, and apparently it had been spammed to hell in the last year since i completely forgot it even existed.

in cleaning up that travesty and trying to trim down the data on the site to clear up some space i nearly totally destroyed illop.com. the theory of why it broke and why it now works again doesnt make sense to me. but i fixed it somehow, and its back to normal.

well, then i added image verification to the comics page.

so, hopefully there wont be any spam anymore, and i have renewed zeal at the idea of creating a forum again. theres at least six of us reading this, im sure we could create a forum…. maybe.