phpBB is garbage software

banditoshu · Post by **banditoshu** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:02 pm

I am amazed that they did not find a solution to all the registration spam. The entire project is filled with dumbshit fucking amateurs.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:17 pm

we've heard

e: this no longer applies

ICJ · Post by **ICJ** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:12 pm

I downloaded a new mod to try to tackle the registration spam. It says it is compatible with easymod.

I put it into the mod directory and went to easymod.

... The guy didn't put his .mod file in the right directory, so easymod can't see it. So what do I do, move it around? Haha, yeah, I definitely want to fuck with something making changes to my database.

Everyone involved in phpBB, from the mod makers to the developers to the sysops using it are FUCKING MORONS. The only smart people are the users, because they are divorced from the process.

Jack Straw · Post by **Jack Straw** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:29 pm

divorced from the process, having it shoved down our unwilling throats like an alien cock, whatever.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 5:23 pm

Well, I didn't want to blame you guys for this.

I do enjoy taking the threads started by the spammers and using them as auto-aliases for unpopular opinions, though.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:21 pm

I blame myself.

I've been too busy writing porno text adventures and device drivers for a Sooper-Seekrit Operating System that you might hear about next year unless the Big Three-Letter Corporation Behind It decides to kill it to work on my Apple II BBS.

I totally think ICJ should run an A2 BBS--with my custom (not actually existing) BBS software (in emulation if need be).

THAT would show those fuckers.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:42 pm

bruce wrote:I totally think ICJ should run an A2 BBS--with my custom (not actually existing) BBS software (in emulation if need be). THAT would show those fuckers.

Yes, it would. We had a piece of board spam tonight that inlined Youtube porn. Motherfuckers! (Wait, Youtube doesn't "do" porn... shit, maybe they were just images that were made to look like it. I deleted it, so I can't tell.) Spam is one thing, but 'not safe for work' spam another.

I don't want to commit to something and then fall short, but I have been seriously considering running a telnet / dial-up BBS to go with this one. OK, I have been considering this for years, but considering actually doing it (while not taking this off-line) in the last month or so. These thoughts are spawned from Comcast playing stupid games with Bit torrent, while still charging me the same price. DSL means a phone line, and why not setup an old-school, Fidonet-enabled BBS on said phone line?

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:08 pm

Would it be easy to get to? As long as I can just fire up Telnet and o joltcountry.com 7777 I'm good, but I don't want to jump through hoops.