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S4C Christmas presentation online, as well as the last TV Live On Demand of 2012 (a week early due to other commitments, it's a review of 2012).

More4 Christmas presentation now online.

From me and the entire TV Live team, have a fantastic Christmas. It's been a superb year for the site, with the introduction of our new branding and new services, and we'll continue to expand the site in 2013.

Thank you all for your continued support.

Happy Christmas Rob.

The first TV Live Podcast of 2013 is now online.

I had e-mail notifications set up on my TV Live Chat account, and I noticed a lot of spam posts yesterday. What happened?

Hadn't noticed, but yes, it appears we had a massive influx of spammers yesterday. All is fixed, the spammers have been banned, and registrations have been disabled for the time being.

phpBB is notorious for letting people register too easy.

Yeah, can't you force new users to answer a captcha when registering. That would defeat the bots.

It would, but it wasn't bots responsible. One of the spammers had a picture of DVB Cornwall as it's avatar pic.

the phpBB captcha itself is broken. reCaptcha works better but its still flakey.

The new issue is not automated spammers but actual humans employed by the spammers in third world countries to crack the captchas the bots find. Generally a custom question (like used here) or the "mod approve first post" like we use over the road can help reduce the issues.

Also blocking all of russia's IP addresses.

What was this "DVB Cornwall" character trying to sell?