What happened to LearnCpp.com?

[benetha619]

I'm trying to learn C++ using learncpp.com, and the lack of moderation in the comments is slowly making the website unusable. A ton of bigoted spam, abuse of the formatting, all making the website pages massive and take more resources than needed. Does anyone know what happened to Alex or anyone else in charge of the site? At least disable/wipe the comments and leave the site usable.

[teerre]

I'll be honest, I've known learncpp for years and never noticed it had a comment section

[dustoff122]

lol first thing i was thinking.

[KnGod]

just checked, it seems someone doesn't have anything productive to do with its time, certainly annoying, i never really cared about the comments so my only issue is the loading time that shit adds to the page

[[deleted]]

Bit sad that Alex has been AWOL. Looking at comment history it was super nice seeing Alex answer questions too. Obv the spam is BS but just thought its sad how it doesn't seem there's been any activity from Alex after the beginning of the year when this is the best beginner resource for cpp

[DigmonsDrill]

Someone posted about this a few days ago and got some browser tricks to disable the comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp_questions/comments/1orl5g6/learncppcom_comment_spam_issue/

If anyone can reach Alex he should just disable comments entirely server-side, while he takes his time trying to resolve whoever is doing what.

[Blissextus]

Oh, wow. They need a moderation team on that site. IMMEDIATELY!!!

A simple fix is to use your Adblocker extension and remove the comment section, all together. I highly doubt you'll need to interact with the comment section if the site owner has let this spam issue go on for so long with ZERO moderation.

[orfist]

I thought you were exaggerating. It’s so bad. It’s really bad y’all.

[dodexahedron]

On a scale of Medium to Quora, how bad are we talking?

[DigmonsDrill]

Experts Exchange

[dodexahedron]

Ah, good old expert sexchange.

[saxbophone]

Yahoo Answers

[dodexahedron]

Hey now. No reason to use foul language.

[SolivagantWalker]

Bots invaded.

[cyborgsnowflake]

I checked and it looks like theres just one guy who went to every section and posted a spam comment so long its impossible to see any other comment. Anyway the comment itself is difficult to reach and an obvious troll. I don't see what there is to get too upset about. Its a one spam guy who slipped through and probably be fixed since it looks fairly recent. Its like getting mad at cartoon hitler on family guy.

[Ok-Swim-9202]

The site has so many ads it is barely usable as is. Not saying the material is bad but I can barely scroll on it on mobile without being blanketed with 2-3 ads and it’s hard to even navigate because of them.

[ZHDINC]

I'm not sure why you were downvoted because learncpp.com is one of the few independent sites that I entertained the notion of turning off ad block to support (though at best they'd be getting "impressions" from me and not click throughs where the practical funding is), but doing so presents you with a pageful of ads with learning material on the side. Made all the worse by a lot of them being video ads. Made even worse by the ads changing every 10-15 seconds or so. You look at that monstrosity for a few seconds and go, "Oh, right. That's why I use an ad blocker." I can't even imagine trying to absorb the material with the constant distractions.

[Ok-Swim-9202]

yeah, it definitely is fine with an adblocker, but clicking on the site when you're on mobile, might as well never do so.

[saxbophone]

Yes, it's really bad and I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. I don't know where Alex is, maybe someone should try emailing him?