Today we are talking about Drupal’s Popularity & Dev Experience, what could be better, and things that are great with guest Nathan Dentzau. We’ll also cover Spam Master as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/469

Topics

Drupal's popularity
What can Drupal to enhance popularity and enhance dev experience
What is missing in Drupal
What could use improvement in Drupal
What about recent tooling improvements
Drupal CMS (Starshot)

Resources

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Nate Dentzau - dentzau.com nathandentzau

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to defend your Drupal website from webform spam using a constantly updating list of known bad actors? There’s a module for that.
Module name/project name:
- Spam Master
Brief history
- How old: created in Mar 2018 by Pedro Alves (pedro-alves)
- Versions available: 8.x-1.99 and 8.x-2.50, the latter of which support Drupal versions 8 through 11
Maintainership
- Actively maintained
- Security coverage
- Documentation on SpamMaster.org
- Number of open issues: no open issues
Usage stats:
- 449 sites
Module features and usage
- Spam Master is a website protection technology that was originally created back in 2012, and is used across sites based on a variety of technologies, including Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and more
- It uses a variety of techniques to identify and block malicious actors, including “real-time block lists”, honeypot traps, comment analysis, and more
- By maintaining a list of known bad actors, tracked by IP address and email addresses used, you can also benefit from a “network effect” by being able to identify them based on malicious behavior on any of the thousands of sites using Spam Master
- The module claims compatibility with a variety of forms, including registration, comments, commerce, and more
- It includes a variety of reports you can use to understand the amount of spam your site is receiving, and the module can automatically send you an email if it believes your site has reached “Level 3” of spam targeting
- Spam Master does use licenses on SpamMaster.org, but free licenses are available

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