I’ve wanted my own membership system since the site launched, but eight years ago I simply lacked the skill to protect members’ accounts from all the monsters out there on the internet, so registration was never offered. Now, in year nine, it’s here: encrypted transmission and storage of passwords, SMS login, TOTP two-factor authentication, login/logout sync with the PHP Discuz forum, automatic lockout on password brute force, and Google’s page-behavior bot detection.
The Account System
After eight years of running and developing this site, we’re now able to keep your account safe, so registration is open. Your password is encrypted in transit and in storage — even the developers can’t see it — and TOTP-based two-factor authentication is supported, which keeps your account as secure as possible.
The Community Forum
Between November 9, 2020 at 16:30 and November 21, 2020, I ran a survey on the WeChat official account asking “What do you most want from following me on WeChat?” — 61 people voted. 74% most wanted “cracked Mac software”, 13% wanted software development content, 7% wanted website building content, and 7% wanted tech news.
This blog is mainly about software development — it isn’t a software distribution site — and as the user count climbed, download traffic costs doubled. So I wanted to hand sharing over to the readers themselves through a community, and set up a resource sharing section in the forum to collect and consolidate download resources.
