Daniel - 2013-12-27

Hi All,

I am coming with bitter news.

There is a big problem with the forum hosting: basically I found out that the webserver was hacked, I think via PHP, and because of the continuous maintenance needed for the punBB software I decided to quit this hosting (http://woas.iragan.com/) and move the forums to a more easily maintainable service.

PunBB was a mistake in first place: it has had a lot of security issues over time, and requires continuous maintenance; now we need to fix this mistake.

I have considered a few online free forum software offers, but none of them seem viable - please advise if you have some ideas in this forum:
https://sourceforge.net/p/stickwiki/forum/new-forums/

Meanwhile, this is the roadmap:

1- forums at http://woas.iragan.com/ will go offline in about 2 weeks, a read-only copy will be provided at same address as soon as possible; the Internet Wayback Machine also has copies of our forums
2- new "official" SourceForge.net forums: https://sourceforge.net/p/stickwiki/forum/new-forums/ anonymous posting is enabled temporarily to ease the discussion of current users
3- if we have found new forums, then I will take care of helping in the transition - otherwise the SourceForge forums shall stay as new official forums
4- in the end only a static copy of the current forums will be kept, since PunBB software will be dismissed

Please accept my apologies for such abrupt news - I will do my best to avoid disgregation and community data loss

 

Last edit: Daniel 2013-12-28