These changes are now deployed and I'm hopeful this problem is now fixed. I've closed the associated issues in Gitea. If somebody is still encountering this problem, please don't refrain from re-opening the issues or comment here.

You're super welcome; it's always great to get positive feedback. I still hope that eventually Neph comes back to this project, but until he does, I'm happy to carry on his work. Speaking of the Twili...  

hello, i just made an account solely to say, thank you. ive been keeping up with nephy's work over the years since total war and conquest but never got the chance to play them. i can play conquest now, and while i was happy to see my favorite factions the darknut and lizalfos get in, but i was disappointed when i saw the twili just didn't get in when nephy gave up on the mod. im happy to see someone pick up where he left off an i hope it only gets better an brighter than ever before. once again, thank you for this. younger me would be happy

The best way imo is to make new accounts require being approved by moderators (that will catch a lot of the spam bots, since you can just deny ones that have names like "Starz_CO_1", "Starz_CO_2","Starz_CO_3", without even reading anything past their names The other way is to make a poster's first post require approval by a moderator, but this wouldn't really help with the amount of effort placed on the mod's shoulders.