The mess was to be expected and had to happen sooner or later.
Some of our plugins were uncompatible with this new update so we delayed an update to a new version of the PHP board.
We have done so until the point where the necessity for an update became apparent.
The first thing is that we had no proper captcha anymore resulting in a massive spam amount.
To use a decent captcha we would have to update (honestly the thing we used would not even keep the most basic bots out).
Thie amount of spam increased until we could not handle it anymore. Without this update we would have to disable Guest posting and potentially even make it impossible to register as a new user.
A second thing that happened is that the board started having bugs due to the outdated software we used.
I can only make assumptions here though. However as far as I can tell problems like these:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=56810
Did not appear again after the update.
The current design is temporary - I chose this design because it is structured similarily to our old silver design.
Also this will prevent people from being locked out until the other designs are fixed.
The mess was to be expected and had to happen sooner or later.
Some of our plugins were uncompatible with this new update so we delayed an update to a new version of the PHP board.
We have done so until the point where the necessity for an update became apparent.
The first thing is that we had no proper captcha anymore resulting in a massive spam amount.
To use a decent captcha we would have to update (honestly the thing we used would not even keep the most basic bots out).
Thie amount of spam increased until we could not handle it anymore. Without this update we would have to disable Guest posting and potentially even make it impossible to register as a new user.
A second thing that happened is that the board started having bugs due to the outdated software we used.
I can only make assumptions here though. However as far as I can tell problems like these:
https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=56810
Did not appear again after the update.
The current design is temporary - I chose this design because it is structured similarily to our old silver design.
Also this will prevent people from being locked out until the other designs are fixed.