Fellow geeks, I am a dunce. A few months ago I “fixed” the GridCycle website. Originally, I had no bot filtering so the default setting for new users was ‘contributer’. This gave little power to the new user and all posts and comments had to be moderated. I want this site to be open so I changed the default setting to ‘Author’ and installed a cool plugin called Sabre to require captcha upon registration. I was so happy! I now had rudimentary bot protection… but I wanted more. I installed a plugin called “New User Email Set Up” and created a custom message that would greet users upon registration.

Now I was set! The site would practically run itself! I went back and re-invited people who had attempted to setup user accounts but never got further than having ‘contributer’ rights. I was so glad that I could maybe grow the site with some more gamer-geek, video-head types.

The plugin was setup to deliver a message that went something like this: “Welcome Program. The MCP has granted you access to the site.” However, the plugin breaks all subsequent email functions of the website. The site never emails you a password. And it doesn’t email you if you try and retrieve a password. To quote Luke Skywalker, “Whatta piece of junk.”

Holy hole in a donut, Batman!

Last night the epiphany that the site was broken came when Commander Tim attempted to join the ranks of GridCycle. To misquote he said, “I smell a php problem” and later question me about a possible, “plugin conflict.” After much research it turned out to be the latter.

In summary, the site is running better than ever now. Captcha works. Registration works. Password retrieval works. Please, if you are a user who has attempted to login into this site before only to have nothing happen: Try again. If you are a user of the site who has forgot their password: Try Again. And if you’re new to the site: Ignore everything you just read and create an account for gods sakes!

Editor in Chief,

Commander Adama