Aug 27, 2006
Akismet down?
I’m not sure whether it’s just me or not, but Akismet doesn’t seem to be catching any of my comment spams at the moment, and I’m getting connection refused errors when trying to connect to the service. I’ve had about 300 spams get through already and there seems to be no sign of them slowing down. 
If anyone knows of a generic spam catcher that has a WordPress plugin but can also easily be accessed from other PHP scripts (Rogue Tory gets an awful lot of comment spam and it’s running a custom blog system that I wrote), please let me know.
Update: The guys at Akismet have posted about the downtime, it’s great to see such a quick response from what is mostly a free service, and on a bank holiday weekend too.
Sorry about that, there was a bug in Akismet which caused this problem. I’ve posted some more information to the Akismet blog about it.
Thanks for the update Matt, glad to see that my blogs are more or less spam-free again. I didn’t realise how much I relied on Akismet until now.