Joe as always a Superb mod mate thank you! Will be using this very soon

Just to let you know the class_bootstrap.php lines to edit if using Facebook Connect are the same for all of vB 4.2.x.

Lines #237 & #294.

I will try it.
Installed + nominated

Thanks Joe :)

Joe, you're always coming up with amazing mods that help the community.

Thank you for everything that you do -- it doesn't go unnoticed! :)

It's working thanks joe! Great mod, installed nominated

This is an awesome mod, and I might install it. However, if enough forums install it, it might easily be bypassed. Spam software can be changed to just search any page's html for the word "register" and the associated link, and use that url instead of the hard-coded one they use now. Then our next weapon/step would be to obfuscate the link (using javascript, etc), and then the spammers would eventually find a way to bypass that, but not as easily. However, the more difficult we make it the better, and as long as everyone isn't using this, it might last quite a while. :)

I had a question about using google analytics funnels/goals to track registration completion. Register.php is in my goal path (it's the trigger), and I think this mod would permanently break analytics being able to track percentage of registration completions (attempts vs success, etc). However, it's still probably worth it. :)

I'm well aware of the capabilities of the auto-spam software. The part you might have missed is, each person who installs this Mod gives the register page a different name. It can be anything. And it will likely be as unique as the person installing it. It may or may not have the word "register" in it somehow.

If a spambot administrator wants to manually find the register page, he/she can do so like any legitimate human can. But as I explained, the auto-spam programs don't inform of failed registrations or the reason for them. And while typically hitting 1000s of sites each session, they don't take any time trying to discover if registrations fail to start with. Auto-spamming is all about automation and speed.

I accurately described this Mod as a "speed bump." But I also accurately explained why it's a better speed bump than most.

Installed, and Thank You.

I am in the process of testing this out, and I noticed while watching whos online.

While the whos online shows several hits to the new registration filename, I suspect these are just bots hitting the links. And even though it shows as unknown location (can this be changed?), I am wondering that this mod is specifically for those registration bots with register.php built in, if you BOP5 have noticed that some of those bots look for the login phrase link instead of just hitting the filename?

Sorry if this is a redundant question, but if I missed it my fault.

Thanks again.

Good catch! Updated to version 1.1.0 to fix the Who's Online issue. It will now say "Registering."

Do you have vb3.8 version of this? Thank you!