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A few years ago, when UHub was getting hammered by both spam content and spam users, I responded by running three different anti-spam modules on forms and requiring people who wanted accounts to ask me personally. The former was probably overkill, so hopefully just two methods will still work. The latter mostly worked as well - I still occasionally approve users who then try to put up several hundred articles/comments about watching major soccer/football games for free or whatever, but fortunately, nowhere near as many as before.

I did manage to build an actual Drupal 10 site (with dummy content) and Drupal 10 has some definite advantages (lots of modules to extend the core features, strong security support, a large user community), but it's just more complex to maintain and seems to require more server resources. It's basically more designed now for operation in a corporate IT department, and, well, I'm just one person and pretty un-technical (I know just enough PHP to be a menace and I don't want to learn configuration management, even if I did get used to the tool Drupal 10 requires).

What I'm moving to is a fork of Drupal 7 - when plans came out for the next generation of Drupal (then 8, now 10), a number of people said, hold on, we like Drupal 7, let's modernize it, not move to an entirely new back end and they forked 7.

And sure enough, they've modernized it (especially in terms of mobile support but even stuff like improving performance via caching), it still seems to be going strong five years or so after it was first announced and I'm just finding it easier to work with (being a creature of habit and all).

It doesn't have quite everything I need out of the box, but I think I've figured out workarounds for what UHub would otherwise be losing (key thing right now: migrating map data from the modules UHub currently uses into the new site, which uses different modules; am going to try exporting the data, then importing it into new tables in the new database, which fortunately will use the same basic content IDs to link latitude and longitude to).

So probably more than you needed to know! Oh, the new setup will also support emojis, so no more :-).