We’re working on restoring the original System7 file archive.  You can view what we’ve restored over at Files.System7.  We’ve replaced the user /credit system with the ReCaptcha service.  We don’t want users to register (which no one likes) but we also want to protect ourselves from leechers aka wget’ers.

If you haven’t heard how ReCaptcha works, not only does it block bots & spam but it performs a beneficial community OCR service at the same time.  Every time you complete a captcha you’re also helping decipher a word which couldn’t be understood by a scanner (OCR).  Currently your efforts are being used to aid in digitizing old versions of the New York Times.  Honestly, not sure how that helps the starving children of Africa…

Using ReCaptcha, you’re given 2 words in the captcha phrase, 1 is known and 1 is unknown.  If you type the known word correctly it will assume you also knew the word which OCR could not interpret.  (The unknown word is actually given to multiple people and they must all have the same answer for it to be accepted).  Read more about ReCaptcha here…

Over the weekend I fixed a few issues we were having with the site.  Those items included:

“Next & Previous entries” links were not working
“Categories” links at the bottom of the page were not working correctly
Fixed Profile, Dashboard links for registered users
*Added CAPTCHA for Comments & Registration pages

As some of you may have noticed, we have been experimenting with some new designs here at S7. For now, this is the current version until we officially relaunch in the coming months.

Upon our relaunch, we will bring back the old file and user system that many of you have come to love. Until then, please subscribe to our RSS feed and keep checking back for improvements.

In the meantime, if you notice any errors with the current design please comment below so we can fix any issues as soon as possible.

Thanks for reading and we look forward to bringing you the possible S7.

I was browsing old hard drives today and secure wiping those that could be recycled.  I came across a very old flash video that someone made for System7.

You can check it out here: System7 Retro Intro