Talking Drupal #469 - Drupal’s Popularity & Dev Experience

Today we are talking about Drupal’s Popularity & Dev
Experience, what could be better, and things that are great with
guest Nathan Dentzau. We’ll also cover Spam Master as our module
of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/469
Topics

Drupal's popularity

What can Drupal to enhance popularity and enhance dev
experience

What is missing in Drupal

What could use improvement in Drupal

What about recent tooling improvements

Drupal CMS (Starshot)

Resources

New drupal

Drupal at your fingertips

Laravel

Next.js

Document using DDEV as the recommended Drupal local
development environment

Just say drupal

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Nate Dentzau - dentzau.com nathandentzau
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to defend your Drupal website from
webform spam using a constantly updating list of known bad
actors? There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Spam Master



Brief history

How old: created in Mar 2018 by Pedro Alves (pedro-alves)

Versions available: 8.x-1.99 and 8.x-2.50, the latter of
which support Drupal versions 8 through 11



Maintainership

Actively maintained

Security coverage

Documentation on SpamMaster.org

Number of open issues: no open issues



Usage stats:

449 sites



Module features and usage

Spam Master is a website protection technology that was
originally created back in 2012, and is used across sites
based on a variety of technologies, including Wordpress,
Drupal, Joomla, and more

It uses a variety of techniques to identify and block
malicious actors, including “real-time block lists”, honeypot
traps, comment analysis, and more

By maintaining a list of known bad actors, tracked by IP
address and email addresses used, you can also benefit from a
“network effect” by being able to identify them based on
malicious behavior on any of the thousands of sites using
Spam Master

The module claims compatibility with a variety of forms,
including registration, comments, commerce, and more

It includes a variety of reports you can use to
understand the amount of spam your site is receiving, and the
module can automatically send you an email if it believes
your site has reached “Level 3” of spam targeting

Spam Master does use licenses on SpamMaster.org, but free
licenses are available