# Meta **URL:** https://forums.pota.news/c/meta/14.md [Latest](https://forums.pota.news/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forums.pota.news/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forums.pota.news/tags.md) --- ## [About the Meta category](https://forums.pota.news/t/about-the-meta-category/37)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/about-the-meta-category/37 "2025-11-06T17:52:52Z")
This is a spot to discuss items related to the site itself…new category requests, tagging, issues, that sort of thing. --- ## [An attack, thwarted this time](https://forums.pota.news/t/an-attack-thwarted-this-time/168)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 20, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/an-attack-thwarted-this-time/168 "2026-10-20T22:47:16Z")
I spent quite a bit of time yesterday mitigating an ongoing attack on one of the PN&R servers. I was browsing the site logs as is my habit with a coffee in the morning and I saw hundreds of emails backed up in the postfi… --- ## [POTAmap requests](https://forums.pota.news/t/potamap-requests/44)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2026, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/potamap-requests/44 "2026-08-06T21:47:25Z")
The POTAmap provides realtime map-based information about POTA activations, but it is probably more used as a planning tool. You can do complex searches on parks (show me parks within 50 miles that I haven’t activated an… --- ## [Building the This Week In POTA newsletter with AI](https://forums.pota.news/t/building-the-this-week-in-pota-newsletter-with-ai/41)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/building-the-this-week-in-pota-newsletter-with-ai/41 "2026-01-11T20:56:29Z")
I just sent out the second edition of This Week In POTA. It’s being written by ChatGPT – I call her Ada – somewhat autonomously. I told Ada that she was the Nosey Newshawk Newsletter Editor, and I hand her a list of URLs… --- ## [New feature: Email your trip reports](https://forums.pota.news/t/new-feature-email-your-trip-reports/144)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/new-feature-email-your-trip-reports/144 "2026-01-11T20:51:37Z")
Something I work hard on in most of my projects is to reduce user friction. For example, when PN&R opened, I expected contributors to have an account on pota.news, log in, and write their story in the Wordpress editors o… --- ## [GMail issues for some users, should be resolved](https://forums.pota.news/t/gmail-issues-for-some-users-should-be-resolved/121)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [January 5, 2026, 11:54pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/gmail-issues-for-some-users-should-be-resolved/121 "2026-01-05T23:54:01Z")
I corrected a problem today that involved GMail users, specifically GMail was not delivering the email with account verification links (or anything else from forums.pota.news). The root cause was that Discourse was misco… --- ## [AI Image manipulation](https://forums.pota.news/t/ai-image-manipulation/113)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 26, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/ai-image-manipulation/113 "2025-12-26T20:50:17Z")
I was working on a trip report for PN&R a few days ago and was figuring out which images I would include. I ran across this one, a pretty nice shot of Main Wall at Arcadia WMA in RI. It’s about 50 feet top to bottom, and… --- ## [Direction of POTA News & Reviews](https://forums.pota.news/t/direction-of-pota-news-reviews/45)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 16, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/direction-of-pota-news-reviews/45 "2025-12-16T18:13:26Z")
I thought I’d put this out here to be clear about where I plan to take PN&R. The goal is to make POTA News & Reviews the hub for POTA. There isn’t one, and I think we will benefit as a community from the effort. Everyth… --- ## [Moving average of CW speed](https://forums.pota.news/t/moving-average-of-cw-speed/66)
**Author:** [@W1GRD](https://forums.pota.news/u/W1GRD)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 17, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.pota.news/t/moving-average-of-cw-speed/66 "2025-11-17T21:16:22Z")
I think it might be possible to ingest RBN data and display a moving average of CW speed on the map. I’m not sure this is actually useful! Back-burner sort of thing for sure.