The forum is now open source

i can smell the cyber crime fourms coming

@atariXD, Use it however you like. It's totally open to the public. This forum has always been more of a project than a product, so I'm not concerned about competition

@atariXD, Maybe when it enters beta stage. There's still a lot to do. Feels wrong to collect mons when I could push a breaking change at any time. Though I will try my best to avoid that. If ever, I'd try adding a migration script to the CLI.

I thought it was an april fools joke, then I realised it is april second

Never expexted this to happen tbh

This actually shocked me. Jon, please be aware of the serious black hat hackers, cause they might cause trouble, especially since the forum is now open source. Good luck, however, on maintaining this project.

@atariXD, How is this better than MyBB? I'm not trying to put it down, as it seems like a valuable addition that many people will use, but I'm interested in understanding what sets it apart from MyBB.

Let's just take a moment to acknowledge how our "competitor" forum (V3RM) is still using MyBB, meanwhile Jon is over here dominating and creating his own forum software.

Seriously though, this action introduces a wide variety of things you must be careful of, for instance,  I'm sure that there are some vulnerabilities internally that can be found and exploited now. Security must be one of your top priorities now, as the more people using the software the less you can afford some big vulnerabilities to be found. I'm very sure you already know this though.

I might create some YouTube video to demonstrate the installation of this forum, not just so there is visual instruction but also to possibly give you a little head start in users. Though YouTubes algorithm is very odd so I doubt it'll get much anywhere besides people searching it themselves.

I hope this goes well, I can see this becoming very great, but I do worry about the security of this forum now. Tbh there aren't many people equipped to deal with attacks on this forum, ig we'll see what happens.

I also worry about this forum becoming filled with people looking for support about the software, this community is great but needs to be kept that way. Of course, that sorry is very dependent that the software goes big, but I (and I believe I speak for everyone else on this forum too) have great confidence in this (and ofc, you).

@VoidableMethod, Absolutely. I take every measure I can recall to prevent security issues. Query injection is unlikely thanks to using Mongo through an ODM. Even if an XSS point existed, cookie logging is impossible due to being HTTP only. The only identifying and private(depends on who you're talking to) piece of info the site collects is an email address. Everything else is already public. 

My only job is pretty much to remember to escape every user input and be careful of data leaks where data is output. Security wise at least. Resource attacks... Hmm

Honestly, I'm kind of hopeful that someone will find an issue. I always learn so much with each new attack.

@reversed_coffee, Now people can stop asking about adding their bot. Can just make a pull request!

@reversed_coffee, God damnit I love this push notification update lmao

@reversed_coffee, Reversed has blocked notifications confirmed. Sad. Jk lol, but yeah. It also works on iOS, but you have to add it as a web-app then subscribe through the footer

A good decision, also thats a Good way to improve the software & your knowledge on all aspects! Thank you, useful contribution.

@Xero

I love how consistent you are to liking posts/threads