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Update your Vanilla Forums
Howdy, We've just released 2.1.13, which addresses multiple security issues issues found during a self-initiated audit. Update should be applied immediately to all forums running the 2.1 release branch (or earlier). You can find full details on what changes were made and how to upgrade here.
More info:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/31046/vanilla-2-1-13-security-updates
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@jbiloh ^^
I think we need @sysadmin
I think I need you
Well ain't you just the sweet talker
Mum got in your pants pretty quick, I didn't know you were that easy
So much love in this thread!
This is getting ridiculous. I don't know where to start:
Guys: don't use Vanilla Forums for any project you are planning to start, really. The codebase is crap, the security side is crap too and the developers aren't qualified to ship a production ready product.
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Awkward typo
I moved away from Vanilla forums around a year and a half ago due to the issues that kept happening.
Who uses Vanilla forums anyway.
I'm getting rusty, I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.
Stares at screen .
What is sarcasm?
Its an icecream flavour
In my country we make sarcasm with fermented cabbage. Every Sunday the whole family gets together for sarcasm.
@Mun, @IceCream, @Nyr What do you suggest as alternatives?
Flarum looks decent.
Will look into it. Thanks.
Fluxxbb is also amazing, they are migrating it into flarum though.
vote for discourse forum
Kinda meh, buggy, heavy on resources.
Discourse has a lot of the right ideas, but unfortunately 1) it's written in Ruby (which means it is a nightmare to deploy), and 2) it requires Javascript to be enabled to use it (even just to read), which is unacceptable for a forum.
Guys: don't use Vanilla Forums for any project you are planning to start, really. The codebase is crap, the security side is crap too and the developers aren't qualified to ship a production ready product.
sounds like WHMCS
xD
phpbb3
Flarum is cool, but I'm waiting until it's a bit more feature-complete before deploying it. Discourse is a resource hog (and then some!), but it's pretty stable and flexible once you get it up and running.
And yet, despite many, many attempts I don't seem to be able to convince some people that we should switch from Vanilla to a more mature, secure, and stable product.
This product is going to bite us in the ass again sooner or later and all I can do at that point is say "I told you so" and try to iron things out for the people that wouldn't listed to me.
@mpkossen as of current there is no good way to migrate to another forum. So start from scratch as well.
Writing a migration script should be worth the effort IMHO. What's worse: having to spend 16-32 hours on writing a migration script or having your forum owned again and your reputation blown to pieces?
I believe there is at least one solution with an importer that can then export to other solutions. Migrations aren't easy, they never are. But at some point it is worth the effort.
@mpkossen I'm not saying it isn't worth it. I'm saying that after I looked for a proper migration solution that I couldn't find any. Something to consider as part of the move (that will happen eventually).
Sorry, didn't mean to sound cross in my reply. I agree though, migration isn't easy.