Remove the `CurrentUser.ip_addr` global variable and replace it with
`request.remote_ip`. Before we had to track the current user's IP in a
global variable so that when we edited a post for example, we could pass
down the user's IP to the model and save it in the post_versions table.
Now that we now longer save IPs in version tables, we don't need a global
variable to get access to the current user's IP outside of controllers.
Allow logged out users to call https://danbooru.donmai.us/profile.json.
This allows getting information on default settings and limits for
anonymous users.
May be a breaking API change if users were using the HTTP response code
from /profile.json to check if they were successfully logged in.
Fix mailers to not attempt deliveries to invalid or nonexistent email
addresses. This usually happened when someone changed their email, and
we tried to send a confirmation email to a nonexistent address.
Refactor controllers so that endpoint rate limits are declared locally,
with the endpoint, instead of globally, in a single method in ApplicationController.
This way an endpoint's rate limit is declared in the same file as the
endpoint itself.
This is so we can add fine-grained rate limits for certain GET requests.
Before rate limits were only for non-GET requests.
* Tie rate limits to both the user's ID and their IP address.
* Make each endpoint have separate rate limits. This means that, for
example, your post edit rate limit is separate from your post vote
rate limit. Before all write actions had a shared rate limit.
* Make all write endpoints have rate limits. Before some endpoints, such
as voting, favoriting, commenting, or forum posting, weren't subject
to rate limits.
* Add stricter rate limits for some endpoints:
** 1 per 5 minutes for creating new accounts.
** 1 per minute for login attempts, changing your email address, or
for creating mod reports.
** 1 per minute for sending dmails, creating comments, creating forum
posts, or creating forum topics.
** 1 per second for voting, favoriting, or disapproving posts.
** These rate limits all have burst factors high enough that they
shouldn't affect normal, non-automated users.
* Raise the default write rate limit for Gold users from 2 per second to
4 per second, for all other actions not listed above.
* Raise the default burst factor to 200 for all other actions not listed
above. Before it was 10 for Members, 30 for Gold, and 60 for Platinum.
Specify the default settings for new users inside the User model instead
of inside the database. This makes it easier to change defaults, and it
makes the code clearer.
Add tracking of certain important user actions. These events include:
* Logins
* Logouts
* Failed login attempts
* Account creations
* Account deletions
* Password reset requests
* Password changes
* Email address changes
This is similar to the mod actions log, except for account activity
related to a single user.
The information tracked includes the user, the event type (login,
logout, etc), the timestamp, the user's IP address, IP geolocation
information, the user's browser user agent, and the user's session ID
from their session cookie. This information is visible to mods only.
This is done with three models. The UserEvent model tracks the event
type (login, logout, password change, etc) and the user. The UserEvent
is tied to a UserSession, which contains the user's IP address and
browser metadata. Finally, the IpGeolocation model contains the
geolocation information for IPs, including the city, country, ISP, and
whether the IP is a proxy.
This tracking will be used for a few purposes:
* Letting users view their account history, to detect things like logins
from unrecognized IPs, failed logins attempts, password changes, etc.
* Rate limiting failed login attempts.
* Detecting sockpuppet accounts using their login history.
* Detecting unauthorized account sharing.
Add a Restricted user level. Restricted users are level 10, below
Members. New users start out as Restricted if they sign up from a proxy
or an IP recently used by another user.
Restricted users can't update or edit any public content on the site
until they verify their email address, at which point they're promoted
to Member. Restricted users are only allowed to do personal actions
like keep favorites, keep favgroups and saved searches, mark dmails as
read or deleted, or mark forum posts as read.
The restricted state already existed before, the only change here is
that now it's an actual user level instead of a hidden state. Before it
was based on two hidden flags on the user, the `requires_verification`
flag (set when a user signs up from a proxy, etc), and the `is_verified`
flag (set after the user verifies their email). Making it a user level
means that now the Restricted status will be shown publicly.
Introducing a new level below Member means that we have to change every
`is_member?` check to `!is_anonymous` for every place where we used
`is_member?` to check that the current user is logged in.
Require new accounts to verify their email address if any of the
following conditions are true:
* Their IP is a proxy.
* Their IP is under a partial IP ban.
* They're creating a new account while logged in to another account.
* Somebody recently created an account from the same IP in the last week.
Changes from before:
* Allow logged in users to view the signup page and create new accounts.
Creating a new account while logged in to your old account is now
allowed, but it requires email verification. This is a honeypot.
* Creating multiple accounts from the same IP is now allowed, but they
require email verification. Previously the same IP check was only for
the last day (now it's the last week), and only for an exact IP match
(now it's a subnet match, /24 for IPv4 or /64 for IPv6).
* New account verification is disabled for private IPs (e.g. 127.0.0.1,
192.168.0.1), to make development or running personal boorus easier
(fixes#4618).
* Make IP bans soft deletable.
* Add a hit counter to track how many times an IP ban has blocked someone.
* Add a last hit timestamp to track when the IP ban last blocked someone.
* Add a new type of IP ban, the signup ban. Signup bans restrict new
signups from editing anything until they've verified their email
address.
Require users who signup using proxies to verify their email addresses
before they can perform any edits. For verification purposes, the email
must be a nondisposable address from a whitelist of trusted email
providers.
Reject email addresses that known to be undeliverable during signup.
Some users signup with invalid email addresses, which causes the welcome
email (which contains the email confirmation link) to bounce. Too many
bounces hurt our ability to send mail.
We check that an email address is undeliverable by checking if the
domain has a mail server and if the server returns an invalid address
error when attempting to send mail. This isn't foolproof since some
servers don't return an error if the address doesn't exist. If the
checks fail we know the address is bad, but if the checks pass that
doesn't guarantee the address is good. However, this is still good
enough to filter out bad addresses for popular providers like Gmail and
Microsoft that do return nonexistent address errors.
The address existence check requires being able to connect to mail
servers over port 25. This may fail if your network blocks port 25,
which many home ISPs and hosting providers do by default.
* Move emails from users table to email_addresses table.
* Validate that addresses are formatted correctly and are unique across
users. Existing invalid emails are grandfathered in.
* Add is_verified flag (the address has been confirmed by the user).
* Add is_deliverable flag (an undeliverable address is an address that bounces).
* Normalize addresses to prevent registering multiple accounts with the
same email address (using tricks like Gmail's plus addressing).
- The only string works much the same as before with its comma separation
-- Nested includes are indicated with square brackets "[ ]"
-- The nested include is the value immediately preceding the square brackets
-- The only string is the comma separated string inside those brackets
- Default includes are split between format types when necessary
-- This prevents unnecessary includes from being added on page load
- Available includes are those items which are allowed to be accessible to the user
-- Some aren't because they are sensitive, such as the creator of a flag
-- Some aren't because the number of associated items is too large
- The amount of times the same model can be included to prevent recursions
-- One exception is the root model may include the same model once
--- e.g. the user model can include the inviter which is also the user model
-- Another exception is if the include is a has_many association
--- e.g. artist urls can include the artist, and then artist urls again
Few people used dmail filters (~900 users in 5 years) and even fewer
used them correctly. Most people used them to try to block dmail spam,
but usually they either blocked too much (by adding common words that
are present in nearly all dmails, causing all mails to them to be
filtered) or too little (blocking specific email addresses or urls,
which usually are never seen again after the spammer is banned).
Nowadays the spam detection system does a better job of filtering spam.
* Rename 'privacy mode' to 'private favorites'.
* Make the private favorites setting only hide favorites, not favgroups
and not the user's uploads on their profile page.
* Make the favgroup is_public flag default to true instead of false and
fix existing favgroups to be public if the user didn't have privacy mode
enabled before.
* List _all_ public favgroups on the /favorite_groups index, not just
favgroups belonging to the current user.
* Add a /users/<id>/favorite_groups endpoint.
* Replace /session/new with /login and /session/sign_out with /logout.
* Rename 'sign in' to 'login'.
This changes are to make urls cleaner and terminology more consistent.
Replace this common pattern in controllers:
@tags = Tag.search(search_params).paginate(params[:page], :limit => params[:limit], :search_count => params[:search])
with this:
@tags = Tag.paginated_search(params)
`search_count` is used to skip doing a full page count when we're not
doing a search (on the assumption that the number of results will be
high when not constrained by a search). We didn't do this consistently
though. Refactor to do this in every controller.
In xml responses, if the result is an empty array we want the response
to look like this:
<posts type="array"/>
not like this (the default):
<nil-classes type="array"/>
This refactors controllers so that this is done automatically instead of
having to manually call `@things.to_xml(root: "things")` everywhere. We
do this by overriding the behavior of `respond_with` in `ApplicationResponder`
to set the `root` option by default in xml responses.
