I submitted a software change request.

@Bryon I updated Firefox.  It appeared to be an outdated version of Firefox - had been using a non-updated version v.34.  Firefox is up to version 49 now.

I took an random page of the old mapleprimes and the same one on the new mapleprimes just for comparison.  There were elements on the old primes I enjoyed and miss, the layout in particular.  IN any case the first one is old and the second is new, both represent full screen comparisons and you will notice more content displayed in the old. 

Good to see an update.  Haven't seen any spam yet- so good work on filtering spam out from reaching the forum.  Second, I didn't expect to see a radical change to the look of mapleprimes, shall we call this Mapleprimes 3?

Thoughts:
I agree with Roman_Pearce, the text is too sparse, lots of scrolling.  We also could also use some slightly darker texture shading of the boxes and background for easier reading and to better separate the different reading regions.  Still a ways from the holy grail of mapleprimes (The holy grail of course being Mapleprimes 1)

**edit added** for fun I have included a snapshot for users to see what the original primes looked ike. 

@Bryon appreciate the update thanks.

@Axel interesting idea for the 0 reputation filter.  Perhaps even 0 reputation accounts could go into a separate group where, if you were deemed a none spammer you would get 1 vote to get out.  And mass deleting would be a quick option similar to like we have in email accounts.

Still no replies on what's happening from Maplesoft?  So do administrators check this site once a week or what? 

Perhaps we should all submit a bug report on this spamming. 

It's real easy to stop posts with http:// in the title and nothings been done.  Those can definitely be blocked right away. 

***edit added ***

I have submitted a software change request (regarding spam on mapleprimes) although I didn't suggest how spam should be deleted in the additional information box which might be a good place to make your suggestions.  No reply from Maplesoft suggests they don't even know about it. 

In the SCR Result I said spam and Expected result I said no spam.  For the severity chosses is works wrong and no work around.

Mapleprimes is the main forum Maplesoft has.   I don't understand why Maplesoft doesn't invest more into it.  Another question is why hasn't Maplesoft administrators addressed this post?  Perhaps they are hard at work on Maple 2017?

If we all stopped deleting spam this forum would pretty much turn to crap in a few days, and beginners would leave Maplesoft in droves.  I thought the spamming was done but I hadn't realized mapleprimes users have been hard at work deleting so many spam posts. 

Maplesoft absolutely HAS to do something.  Mapleprimes is too valuable to loose.

@ecterrab captcha!  Yes!  totally agree that it would eliminate all if not most of the postings that appear to be bots, however if they are human as Axel thinks, it wouldn't do a thing.

I really hope mapleprimes considers attaching captcha's to account creation to test this thing out.  I see where roman_pearce is going with the EssayTools but I think that's more like a filter.  We should stamp out the spammers right away right at the source... start with captcha

Although I don't use other math forums, they don't seem to have these problems, do they?

@Preben Alsholm I agree.  I made a recent post about spam attacka again before I noticed this post.  Funny thing how a mathematics forum is easily spammed isn't it?  You'd think it would be the hardest to spam. 

I recall reading about the mapleprimes administrators saying something like the forum will take care of itself.  Meaning us, we mapleprimers have to continually clean this forum up.  Which also tells me mapleprimes administrators aren't going to fix the issue or fix the underlying issue. 

I think if the spamers are actual people and not bots the issue is a bit harder but I believe the issue lies in the security of creating new accounts.

@acer valuable information.  Thanks for the in depth examinations.

@dsh1 I currently can not see your images.  All I see is a small computer icon with an x on the monitor part. 

Interesting graphical analysis.  Just a quick comment .. based on performance gains it's hardly worth devoting more than 4 of 5 cpu's to a task, unless for some reason a deadline looms and calculations are required to be completed before a specific time.

As a side comment I wonder if two dual core processors (two physical processors with two independent cores each) would outperform a quad core processor (single processor with four independent cores).

@Carl Love ok FileTools:-Text:-Close or fclose.  Thanks

I got the URL:-Get to work once.  Thanks Stephen but the website seems to be offline again.  However while I had the data I was able to produce some code like this ..

propane := proc ()
  uses StringTools
  local data, a:
  data := URL:-Get("http://www.fuelsonline.ca/"):
  a := SearchAll("PROPANE:", data):
  cat("The price of propane on ", FormatTime(), " is ", data[a+41 .. a+42], data[a+48 .. a+49], " cents");
end proc:

Unfortunately I could not test it properly to see if works as the website is offline. Should it work properly I expect it's output today to be as follows:

propane()

       "The price of propane on 2016-07-26 is 39.9 cents"

It appears I can't even access the webpage at all right now.   It must be offline.