Round 2 of the battle against spambots has begun! I’ve created a new weapon from scratch to deal with the pesky registration spam that we’ve been having. It involves picking out the cats from 5 images of random animals (mostly common household cats & dogs).
Registration has been opened to everyone so I can test out the effectiveness in the next couple of weeks. Anyone is free to register.
I can’t seem to beat these spammers. I’ve turned off registration until I can come up with something. Sorry.
Here is a to-do list of what I have to do still.
I’ve completed the anti-spam registration spam that I’ve been working on. Registrations are now open! You can sign up if you want to, but things are obviously not up to snuff yet. I’ll continue working on it as I find time. 
Hey guys, I’m actually thinking of a new design. I like the current one, but I think I can do better. So that will push back the release date of “whenever it’s ready” to a later point in time…
Update 8/18/2011: The theme is now ready, I think. On to other stuff!
The forum is down… I’m experimenting with bbPress, which is a forum made by the same guys that made WordPress. Obviously, integration would be easier. And, from the looks of it, bbPress 2.0 is going to simply be a plugin for WordPress, which would be even easier.
I’m looking forward to the full release of bbPress 2.0 and hopefully they can get it ready soon. :3
Just a quick announcement: The Sign Up Page, though it looks functional, is currently not working because of the security question plugin I installed. Since it doesn’t work, like 50% of the plugins I’ve tried so far, I’ll probably have to write my own. Again.
*Is afraid if he doesn’t have an anti-spam question the bots will pour in*
For the last few days I’ve been working on the theme of the main site. I think I’m at the point where the majority of the work is done, and now I’m just fine tuning everything (which takes a surprisingly long amount of time).
I do still have to work on the sidebar a little bit. I need to find out how to display a list of recent posts from random blogs or popular blogs.
Also, I’m working with an artist on FA to get a picture of a cute little fox up next to the logo. You can see where I drew a little placeholder 
I don’t know if this fox is going to become a mascot or anything like that.
Fur Journal now has a twitter account. The purpose of this account is currently unknown xP But, I figure it should be used for announcements from staff like this page is for. It can also be used as an off-site way to announce things in case FJ ever goes down for some reason.
I finished installing a forum for FJ: http://forum.furjournal.org/
If you’re interested in this project, let me know on the forum! (Registration for journals is still disabled, but you are welcome to join the forum).
Sorry, I couldn’t handle all the spam bots registering. We had like 50 registering every day. I deleted everything because a fresh install of WordPress 3.1 looked so inviting. Registrations are off until I can figure out a way to beat these spam bots. If you want to register and possibly participate in early alpha testing, email me at moka@mylionking.com. Thanks!