This was originally posted on my blog here: http://www.ryanashbrook.com/2010/02/26/imperialbb-feature-spotlight-the-portal/

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Ok, anyone who knows me well, knows that there is one feature in ImperialBB that I’m particularly proud of. The Portal.

I programmed the Portal shortly after I joined the team in 2007. When I joined, the Portal already had a file and a template in SVN, but it had zero functionality. It just displayed the template, which was the base for what the Portal was supposed to look like.

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Forum Spam in this day and age is a major problem with most bulletin board software. All software have come up with their own way for dealing with it, and this post is going to outline the arsenal of Anti-Spam tools that we employ within ImperialBB.

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