@Evan Wilson (EAW), thanks for the heads-up. I set it to Normal for now (:

Should the priority be change from "Open, Needs Triage by Developer" to one of the "Confirmed" options?

Done as part of 845ccf6b0b5e.

Thanks for the offer, but this issue is assigned to @Pablo Vazquez (pablovazquez) who is taking care of it today.

hi Francesco.
do you need some help on this task?

Fixed. /donate was working but /donate/ wasn't. It's meant to be a redirect so we can easily change it on our side in case we need to point people to another page temporarily.

Easy to change the link to fund.blender.org, but not sure if this page is supposed to exist and is linked to from elsewhere.

Thanks for the heads up, potentially several of the links to the manual from the features page will need to be updated. Files are still being moved around rather regularly so I dont want to spend the time fixing these immediately.

Can confirm, this issue also happens on other mobile browsers.

Can we perhaps add a link to the Cycles GPU requirements manual page (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/render/cycles/gpu_rendering.html) in the Supported graphics cards section of the Blender Requirements page at https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/ ?

Fixed.

Hi Chipp, thanks for letting us know. We're having some issues with American Express cards, which we're solving right now. It does involve a certain amount of paperwork, so it may take a bit to get it resolved. I'm glad you found a workaround!

In T54868#547542, @Lawrence D'Oliveiro (ldo) wrote:

You do realize you can block things from search engines without preventing actual humans from browsing them?
So what exactly has been “resolved” here? I don’t see any actual answers to my questions: why shouldn’t the parent directory be browsable, given that a whole bunch of subdirectories already are? Is this material worth keeping online, or isn’t it?

You do realize you can block things from search engines without preventing actual humans from browsing them?

Can you list all files that are in this directory?

Can you list all files that are in this directory?

This area has been off limits for a long time by the previous administration:

What exactly is here? Definitely it should not be locked. @Dan McGrath (dmcgrath) can you change the permissions here?

BTW, I was able to sign up with PayPal :-).

Thanks for deleting the pages Brecht. I took some actions on the offending account. Will investigate this further.

Thanks. I did refresh a few times (and checked on brand new browser) and they hadn't disappeared by 7 minutes ago, but they have now!

Just refreshing the page should work. The account was now deleted and there do not appear to be any other changes that were made.

Thanks. I notice that has removed them from the RSS feed at https://www.blender.org/feed/ (although they may previously have been sent to RSS subscribers, which is how I first noticed them). Still appearing in the index at https://www.blender.org/news/ too, even if each link 404s. I don't know if that will clear itself up automatically?

@Francesco Siddi (fsiddi), @venomgfx, I moved the spam news items to the trash now, but I don't have the permissions to reset the offending account and verify what else it might have changed.

Can confirm, @Francesco Siddi (fsiddi) , @venomgfx, mind having a look?

Probably bad form for the reporter (especially a brand new one like me) to change the priority, but I thought this important enough to do so. I haven't read any of the news posts, but there's a possibility they lead to malware or phishing sites themselves.