Been a while since I've been on here...
Anyway, just some updates for y'all:
• Moved VR to a new, faster server
• Now using MariaDB instead of SQLite for the backend, so it will be much much faster, especially for searching and things like. Also way more reliable and easy to backup
• Stopped the silly error where new threads couldn't be started because a folder got full up. Now it's in a proper database, that will never happen again.
• Fixed the forgot password function - it will actually send you a new password now. I didn't however make it a sensible feature... it just resets and emails you the new one.
• Fixed the complete inability to remove your msn name from your profile. It was a stupid typo that was stopping it being deleted.
• Disabled new registrations. It's only spambots these days, and I think the community isn't going to grow anymore
• Made passwords more secure - I wrote the code for this over 5 years ago, and though the passwords were always hashed, it was done using salted MD5 - which has been broken for a long long time. Now when you login it will delete that insecure password and give you a shiny new bcrypt password - which will be secure forever.
• Fixed a whole bunch of security holes. Man I was a sh*t coder way back then...
• Added a privacy checkbox in your profile settings. A lot of people don't want their old stuff to come back to haunt them - so just check the box, and all your posts become invisible to google and anyone who isn't a member. And since new users are disabled, no-one can sign up to see your old stuff.
• Removed some stupid dependencies on Apache & PHP. It's all nginx all the way, with perl behind the scenes.
If anyone notices any problems, just post in here to let me know.
If anyone cares, the code is here
https://github.com/LoonyPandora/VegRev - And I actually commit the code there and deploy it to the server. So have at you.