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Thanks for your feedback @sbwdblog8.

I just wanted to clear up that Akismet does not self-install, but it has been included as part of WordPress for a long time now (I believe since WordPress v2.0 in 2005). The Akismet plugin is not activated by default when installed with WordPress in this way.

Happens to the best of us @mayhem30! Glad you got it working.

Thanks again for the report @itapress!

This is fixed in our new release, v5.3.6:

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/akismet/tags/5.3.6/views/notice.php#L70

Thanks for reporting this and sorry to hear you’ve had difficulty connecting to Akismet.

The comment-check endpoint currently accepts requests via POST only, so accessing the endpoint via GET (for example in your browser) will always return an error. Admittedly this could return a more descriptive status code than 500, so we’ll look into improving that.

The server status is looking good at the moment and I’m not seeing any issues connecting from our test sites. Please let us know if you continue to experience connection difficulties and we’ll investigate further for you.

It’s always nice to hear this. Thank you for the kind words @siriusmw! We’re glad that Akismet is working well for you. I’ve shared your feedback with our development team.

Thanks again for reporting this @asofantzis! We’ve just released Akismet plugin v5.3 which includes the updated Fluent Forms filters.

https://akismet.com/blog/version-5-3-of-the-akismet-wordpress-plugin-is-now-available/

Thanks @treibstoff! We’ve fixed this one in the recently-released v5.3 of the Akismet plugin:

https://akismet.com/blog/version-5-3-of-the-akismet-wordpress-plugin-is-now-available/