I fucking hate hackers. I usually can keep a pretty even composure (at least in my opinion), but this just completely pisses me off. In case you haven’t noticed (or just come and enjoy my blog, and don’t see the main site), East Forums were hacked earlier today.
Now, I’ll admit, the site didn’t get off to the best start in the world, what with the tons of spam bots that signed up every day (up until I improved the CAPTCHA that only allowed two non-legit registration go through), the problems with various mods (mods as in modifications, not moderators. However, few people besides me probably knew of the modification problems), the low amount of registrations, and the meagre amount of posts. I’ll admit EF v2 was no the greatest site in the world, but I kept it going because I enjoyed it, and truly believed that eventually, it would boast a moderate community.
But now, that’s not going to happen, at least for a little bit. First I need to find a new forum software to run. The previous incarnation was run on the last legally free version of Invision Power Board. I personally don’t have the cash to drop for the newest version of IPB or a license for vBulletin, either. So, now I’m going to have to go and figure out what to use for the site now. If you happen to have a suggestion for a good forum software (preferably with a “Front Page News” module, though that’s not a die-hard requirement), please leave me a comment pointing me in that direction.
So yeah, hackers pretty much suck the balls of life. If this site gets hacked, then I’m going to be severely pissed. I already am pissed, but if another of my sites falls to a hacker, then I’ll be even more so. However, I think that, having the old version of IPB , the EF job was an easy hack because of it being a few versions back. Hopefully, Drupal will be more hardy against such attacks. Just in case, though, I’m going to go make a database backup right after I post this entry.