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Two-factor authentication (2FA)
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is our latest major new feature, releasing today. 2FA helps protect your account against unauthorized access and potentially malicious actions by requiring verification via your account's registered email address. Configure 2FA for your account here.
2FA is required once per session, and can be set up in two ways:
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Big update for trends and graphs!
What started out as a small request to add an option to compare the same day of week instead of day of month from one year ago, ballooned into a much bigger project that took about 10 days of work. A lot of our code for graphs and trends is pretty old, so a large portion of this update was just cleaning that up significantly so future updates like this should be a lot easier.
Most websites have consistent patterns of traffic on each unique day of the week, or at least significant weekday vs weekend differences, so it makes sense that the day of week should always match when comparing the past.
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Referrer BACKLINK SEARCH and VISITOR LOG Overhaul!
Notice anything off about referrers recently? Maybe they're looking at a little sparse, and…not so useful? Do you find yourself longing for days of yore, when you could see the actual page that visitors were arriving from?
You're not alone! In February, we received a few customer emails about this in a short amount of time, prompting the realization that we had never relayed to you a major change that Google Chrome made in July 2020 which has ultimately resulted in the sad referrer log you see above on the right. So, we sent out a tweet and created a new knowledge base article about it.
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The discussion forums are back!
In May 2017, after 9 years of lively activity, we had to shut down our discussion forums due to massive spam problems. It was just some simple code I had written in literally one day in 2008 to add a sense of community to the site, and it was great until the last year or two when spammers arrived en masse. The code was pretty old and crusty and I didn't want to deal with updating it, so I just decided to close it down, if only temporarily.
We definitely lose a sense of community when that shut down though. I really enjoyed seeing our users talk to each other and help each other out with problems and ideas and things like that. So I was happy in the short term to be done with the spam, but long term I'm really unhappy about losing that.
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Bug fixes for IP address tags & filters when anonymization is enabled
Since GDPR became law in May 2018, one of the things we did was make IP address anonymization the default. It took a few bug reports that very slowly rolled in before we realized this broke existing IP tags and filters unless they were also updated or were already using wildcards. I'm guessing most people already use wildcards because even after we knew about the problem, very rarely would anyone contact us about it.
Good news, we just pushed up a fix. What happens now is if you have IP anonymization enabled, then at run time (in both Spy and in the script that processes traffic in batches every 20 seconds), we dynamically convert all IP tags and filters to wildcards, which will then match anonymized IPs as they roll in. It sounds simple but we took the time to rewrite a bunch of related legacy code that hadn't been touched for a while, that always adds in some unexpected fun.