Thanks to everyone for joining! At the suggestion of u/ash2449, I've created a suggestions megathread. What do you want to see developed for the site in terms of new features or alterations of existing features? Please post all your suggestions for the site here.
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Hi there. This is a great initiative and thank you for spending your time, resources and effort getting it up and running.
Some additional security suggestions:
1) MFA - TOTP, Passkey, FIDO2...would all help with account security.
2) Email verification - Filters account creation spamming and gives some higher certainty (not much though) whether bots are at play.
3) User-centric IoCs - Some user visible security events like last logged in time and location. Gives a signal to users if their accounts have been breached.
4) Geo-location - The "Account based in..." info seems to change according to VPN status. Not sure if it that's meant to be an initial thing or updated as people change origin IPs.
Happy to discuss or told to bugger off.
Thanks, really appreciate all the detailed feedback.
Thanks for all the feedback. Definitely not a matter of bugger off, really appreciate you engaging so deeply with the material on a security front. It's one of the things I'm obsessing over because I want the site to be as impervious as possible to astroturf, bots, bad actors, anyone with ill intent and other platforms seem to have left exploitable gaps here.
Great to hear that you're on top of 1) and 2). Sorry I missed 3), what you have exceeds expectation, great stuff.
Yes 4) is a an interesting one. Happy to provide more detail and clearer workflows if needed.
Appreciate it! I pushed an update earlier today that I think handles 4). The 'Account based in' setting for user accounts now no longer updates if you're on a datacentre IP or VPN and retains your last value from when you were on non-VPN/datacentre connection. Let me know if you can reproduce the same issue now, and if so, any additional detail would be appreciated. If not, then problem solved!