Hi

[Bob]

Old site got too broken and expensive to fix. I still have the database but not sure it's worth trying to recover it.

[kuntz]

The old forums were buggy as fuck.

[Bob]

Well that's mostly because it was pirated version of vBulletin lol. The hosting forced me to upgrade PHP past what was supported and I couldn't update vB anymore.

[kuntz]

Lol that software was probably 15 years old by now.

[Bob]

They want over $200 to upgrade now. They used to charge $30 for the updates after you bought the license, which I did back then but now it would just be a waste.

[Bob]

We already got hella spam bots registering though. I had to keep changing user permissions. I was getting emails and all kinds of shit within hours of bringing the site back up.

[kuntz]

The bots are easy to fix since they just submit a basic form to the server. Just rename the controls from "username" and "password" to like "asdasd" and "j4hjk234532" and then the server will just reject all of their bogus submissions.

[Bob]

On the registration page specifically I'm guessing?

[kuntz]

Ya just edit the PHP file or Template that sets the form names, and then edit the server page that receives them.

[kuntz]

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[Bob]

It seems like Akismet anti-spam and Recaptch 3 has helped a ton.

[kuntz]

Yup. Bots aren't too hard to take care of.