Cicero Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Note that this is different forum software! We're very lucky we were able to copy over the users and posts. A phpBB skin simply won't work. I'll look to see if there's any Invision skins we can use in the meantime though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Platyna Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Note that this is different forum software! We're very lucky we were able to copy over the users and posts. A phpBB skin simply won't work. I'll look to see if there's any Invision skins we can use in the meantime though. I know PHPBB skin will not work. Anyway I was thinking about enable few skins for people to chose from - I was option like that in profile managment. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted August 24, 2004 For the time being, let's not worry about the skins. Besides, this forum also looks like a KDE skin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grum Report post Posted August 24, 2004 For the time being, let's not worry about the skins.Besides, this forum also looks like a KDE skin Nah, KDE skins look much better Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Platyna Report post Posted August 24, 2004 For the time being, let's not worry about the skins.Besides, this forum also looks like a KDE skin Yeah it looks exactly like Keramik. Not my style anyway. ;-D Anyway that forum has alot more modest style than PHPBB so I like it. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cicero Report post Posted August 24, 2004 It seems to have a decent skinning engine, I posted some info in the Visual Art section. I think there won't be too much trouble remaking the skin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wytter Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Good to have the forums back online... Are you revealing any info on how the hacker came in on the phpBB2 forums? Just poor password policy or an exploit? Went immediately to the Security page on phpBB2, but didn't see any recent exploits... Argh - my avatar needs a resize :0) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Platyna Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Good to have the forums back online... Are you revealing any info on how the hacker came in on the phpBB2 forums? Just poor password policy or an exploit? Went immediately to the Security page on phpBB2, but didn't see any recent exploits... Argh - my avatar needs a resize :0) From that I've seen (I had enought time to look up) he exploited one of PHPBB vulnerabities that allows unauthorized person gain membership in group "Moderators". So he could remove threads (what he was doing like we could see) but couldn't do anything else like removing sections or remove backup of DB - I think this is the reason why we have almost whole forum back. I am preety sure it was that vulnerabity. Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eldwen Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Ummm what exactly happened to the old forums and mess because I missed alot of that...... *also notices that he has lost 300 posts....oh well life goes on* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Acelon Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Erm ya, did you ever find out who it was? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shadow fire Report post Posted August 24, 2004 YAY! its back! Now to get back my 50 posts back Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Report post Posted August 24, 2004 now we have to re create every post ever made on the old forums. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
70347 Report post Posted August 24, 2004 dangit forgot to log in, used to being always logged in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matrixx_sh Report post Posted August 24, 2004 well this is an interesting board we can get used to new smilies :lol: only problem is meh avatar is to big Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Platyna Report post Posted August 24, 2004 Hmm who ate option to delete posts? Regards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chatterbug89 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 OK, I am goign to be completely honest so please dont' get mad at me...i'm only stating my opinion. First off, I don't like Invision board...phpBB can do anythigna and eveyrhtrign that phpbb baord could do plus more with a few phpbb mods. Additoanlly...200 a year is a rip off! Next off...I realy don't understand the poitn of getting invision board. I mean...you think you woudl jsut kind of expect someone to try to hack phpbb espeically when it is almost a year old version! I mean come on...blame phpbb for the searuity problem! You had version 2.0.6...there have been a ton of searity vulnrablitiles and explorits fixed, and now there is a version 2.0.10. Also...phpbb2.2 will be comming out soon and will probally be way better than invision board rigt "out of the box" and for free. OK...so I am a phpbb fan...but getting invision board to solve seqrity [problems was just stupid (especially with the price tag). You are goign to STILL have to update it (and I realy hope you do...I hat seeing sites go down)...no program is perfect and there is no perfect programer. If you thought you coudl have a almsot year old version of phpbb and be safe, that is rediculus. Anyways, that was just my two cents. Please don't get mad at me P.S. As for the thigna bout everyoen liking the smileys...i hope eveyone knows that you can but these same smileys in PHPbb . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aerowind Report post Posted August 25, 2004 So u guys couldn't get all the mindless General chat junk that i had almost 300 posts worth in?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chatterbug89 Report post Posted August 25, 2004 I think what happen was version compatability problems...i had this same problem with my forums kind of. I had a database made for like phpbb 2.0.8 and then there was server problems. restoring the database onto a 2.0.10 board gave me SQL errors that I didne't feel like fixign manually. Now, having the server admin upload the huge SQL backup file manually was a way I could overcome the errors...but when you use a converter made for 2.0.10 forums and not 2.0.6 forums you can run into problems. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cicero Report post Posted August 25, 2004 Chatterbug, so far our experience of Invision's board is that it's much better than phpBB. We can actually keep it for free, but Ent likes it so much I think he's going to pay for it anyway. The reason we lost those posts had nothing to do with the database import, it was because the backup was made after they had been deleted. In summary, STFU. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted August 25, 2004 Yes, this forum is FAR better than PhpBB, it's free (if you don't need tech support and some other really fancy features), and it's 200/life, not/year. And it has far less exploits than PhpBB does. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MikeH Report post Posted August 25, 2004 this forum is awesome!!!!!!! you can ahve 2000 cahracters in your interests!!! i used all 2000, and im plannning on using 200 for my location too =D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matrixx_sh Report post Posted August 25, 2004 mike have i ever told you you were a freak Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goatsgomoo Report post Posted August 25, 2004 this forum is awesome!!!!!!! you can ahve 2000 cahracters in your interests!!! i used all 2000, and im plannning on using 200 for my location too =D lemme guess.... ur gonna use all 300 characters for the sig? you sicken me mike. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anastasia Report post Posted August 25, 2004 I like the new forums. Looks strangely familiar to another forum I have seen as far as layout goes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flexo Report post Posted August 25, 2004 Yay, this has even better looks than the php forum! Nice one ent! And yea vart, much better smileys But my avatar looks goofy x.x Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
