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If you have no idea who the heck I am, or aren't interested in the German site and it's happenings, ignore this post. If you do, I'm back!!
*Cue the thunderous applause*

First off, I'm very sorry I haven't been around lately at the German forum. I see there've been some problems there; I hope they've been cleared up by now. I 'm a full-time student now and, in truth, I'd forgotten about the wonderful site I hosted. I'm also not very proficient in administrating dynamic websites. So, once again, I'm sorry for the awkward situation, but there isn't much to be done about it, as things stand.

Secondly, I'm learning C/C++ this semester (Yes, I'm in college now). Come January, I might be able to rejoin the AutoHotkey community as a developer. With this in mind, and considering that AutoHotkey has already done much for me, I'd like to continue hosting the site as my way of contributing to this project for now. If someone else wishes to administrate the site, that would be great, but it seems to be doing decent as it is.

And finally, what's been happening in the past few months? I must've missed a lot.

Nice to know you're back, alive and kicking

I wish you all the best with your studies. Don't get sued by the RIAA (ey, your a student now. Your trapped !!). Follow your current leaders footprints (ey, no alcohol, no sex before marriage, stay away from dangerous situations like hurricans even it has passed already etc. ) and yes, don't stop bothering Rajat to come back as well

Cheers
BB King. Correction BoBo King. Eh, King BoBo.

BTW:
To feel kinda responsible for the German AHK Forum (and its users) honours you. Good atitude. Your parents seems have to be done a damn good job. From Germany: Hi JMum Hi JDad ! (Hug JLo )

Hello jonny,

a warm welcome. Good to know that you're back. I must admit I started to miss your *green galloping what not*



cheers
AGU a.k.a. AGermanUser

jonny...

The German Forum is Hacked !!!!
I hope here is a never PHPBB Version running ???

I tried to read some new posts in forum and saw a big **** hackers message

What some people like to do with there freetime

*snief*
Thalon

@ Thalon, AGU, toralf, ...
als registrierte User könnt ihr Jonny (Stefan?) eine PM (Personal Message) über das Forum schicken!

So, hab jetzt mal eine PM auf den Weg geschickt.

Ich könnt echt kotzen. Hab schon vor 2 Monaten eine PM an jonny geschickt, in der ich schon Befürchtungen wegen der angezeigten Versionsnummer 2.0.11, der darin bekannten Sicherheitlücken und irgendwelchen gelangweilten Kindern, Mißgünstlingen und Hackern geschildert habe.

Ich kann nur hoffen, das jonny wenigstens ein regelmäßiges Backup der Daten gemacht hat. Ansonsten wär ich schon stark enttäuscht.

Wollte eben die Übersetzung eines weiteren Wiki Artikels bekanntgeben, und jetzt das. Mal schauen, wie lang es dauert, bis das deutsche Forum wieder steht.

Was du hiermit getan hast. Das Wiki ist noch erreichbar.

Ich bin nur Mod...
und habe Jonny letztends vor 3-4 Tagen angeschrieben
und das Problem mit Spam-Usern und der veralteten Foren-Soft geschildert und ihn um ein Statement gebeten.

_________________
Stefan

This post was created with the kindly help of http://dict.leo.org/ and remember: “Allways look on the bright side of Life”

Hat irgend jemand schon neue Infos?

Jetzt melden sich auf dem gehackten Forum anscheinend schon irgend welche Spamuser an. Hab auch eine private Message vom deutschen Forum erhalten, aber trau dem Braten nicht. Deswegen habe ich die mal nicht abgeholt. Könnt ja sein, das die die Nutzerdatenbank geknackt haben.
Habt ihr auch eine PM bekommen?

Gruß
AGU

Bis jetzt 5 SpamUser Einträge im Deutschen Forum. Wird Zeit über alternatives Hosting nachzudenken ... . Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, hatte sich daonlyfreeze dazu mal kooperativ geoutet

@ Chris
are you able to check/administrate the German Forum? The initial page (index.php) is blocked after an attack, and it looks like we're not able to get jonny ... to solve it.

I've e-mailed Jonny, but I think he's too busy at school to respond.

I do have access to the server, but unfortunately I think the only way to restore the old forum would be to restore a database backup from before the attack. This would require someone to contact the hosting company, which I think can only be done by the authorized owner of the domain.

As a last resort, I could probably reset the forum to an empty state and upgrade it to the latest version to prevent further attacks. However, that might result in the loss of all the old posts because restoring the backup later (after new posts have started to go in) might be too difficult because it would require two forums to be "merged".

I'm very, very sorry that I let this happen; Yes, I do remember receiving a PM from a vigilant German AHKer (I believe it was AGU) alerting me that the forum was out of date. Like many other things, I forgot about this. I have indeed been quite busy, but I promise I will look into solving this dilemma by toworrow at the very latest. If nothing else, I will temporarily entrust my host's password to someone willing to deal with the nitty-gritty (I may actually have to, knowing nothing of phpbb).

I will also make plans for setting up a volunteer admin. I certainly do not want to pressure anyone, so it will be purely voluntary, but if someone capable and trustworthy feels that they have the time, I would love a helping hand.

While the rebuild/restore is in progress, feel free to use this forum if you'd like... . For additional sections, Admin, etc... just contact me if interested.