Just before my vacation to Peru i noticed that i received a lot of spam in my comments on my blog. i was running DotNetBlogEngine 1.4.5 and the spamfilter seemed to be broken. I didn't have time to fix it before my vacation so i disabled comments for a while. now that I'm back I upgraded to 1.6.1 which has build in functionality for Askismet and Recaptcha.

because I had so many spam comments I had to remove all of them so sorry for everyone who posted real comments because they are also gone now.

BlogEngine.Net 1.6.1 (download from codeplex) feels like its a lot more mature then the 1.4.5 version I had before. Lets see how well it will go in the future.

Because of the switch I had to change the theme because the old one didn't work that well with this new version so i downloaded a new theme from http://www.blogenginetheme.com/ and changed a bit to my liking. When i have time i'll change it a bit more.

If you are still using an old version of BlogEngine.Net I would advise you to upgrade to 1.6.1 because it's looking pretty good and upgrading was easy. (costed me 2 hours including deleting of spam  )

Enjoy my new weblog

Geert van der Cruijsen