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vBulletin flaw
2010-07-23, 1:05 AM #1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10714192

Does this affect us? I'm never sure about such things.
2010-07-23, 4:35 AM #2
Nope, we run OLD versions of vBulletin! ^_^

(Specifically, the article says 3.8.6, and the bottom of this page says 3.8.4. So not that old I guess.)

2010-07-23, 4:37 AM #3
Ah so it does. I never noticed that!
2010-07-23, 5:34 AM #4
here i was thinking it was the ol' Chrome + closed thread = first line placement wierd
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2010-07-23, 6:32 AM #5
From what I understand it's some sort of XSS flaw within the user profile page
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2010-07-23, 6:58 AM #6
Quick! Before CM gets back! Steal back the souls!
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2010-07-23, 7:15 AM #7
For once, being lazy with updates actually turns out for the better!

Dunno why the BBC took off running with this flaw, vB releases security updates all the time. And as mentioned, vB released a patch for it already. They're very quick on patching that sort of stuff.
2010-07-23, 8:16 AM #8
vBulletin is awful, awful software littered with bad design and usability decisions.

sigh. /bitter
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2010-07-23, 8:36 AM #9
Originally posted by Emon:
vBulletin is awful, awful software littered with bad design and usability decisions.

sigh. /bitter


Name a forum software that isn't.
2010-07-23, 9:37 AM #10
The last time I looked, SMF was the closest. I hate that you can't search for three letter words in almost every forum ever. And, no, CM, searches do not get exponentially slower the shorter the words. There's no excuse for it.
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2010-07-23, 9:39 AM #11
No, it's the index that grows exponentially larger.

And I hate SMF with a passion.
2010-07-23, 9:39 AM #12
No, it grows geometrically.
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2010-07-23, 10:00 AM #13
SMF is pretty terrible. I admin on an smf board, and it pretty much makes me want to shoot myself in the eye with the ink of a squid.
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2010-07-23, 10:02 AM #14
That does not give me confidence in the state of forum software :suicide:
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2010-07-23, 10:04 AM #15
So make it better and get rich. :P
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2010-07-23, 10:05 AM #16
I haven't checked under the hood of phpbb3 but from an administrator perspective I don't hate it. At least modifying the template wasn't a nightmare.
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2010-07-23, 10:07 AM #17
Originally posted by Emon:
vBulletin is awful, awful software littered with bad design and usability decisions.

sigh. /bitter


But it's surprisingly "stable" for how bad it's put together, which I find very odd.
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2010-07-23, 10:10 AM #18
Originally posted by Freelancer:
So make it better and get rich. :P

There's plenty of good ones, but they're all crazy expensive.
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2010-07-23, 10:49 PM #19
zcom forums was the best one :ninja:
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2010-07-23, 10:52 PM #20
Originally posted by Emon:
vBulletin is awful, awful software littered with bad design and usability decisions.

sigh. /bitter

Wanna design one in .NET?

Seriously. I've been looking for something to do.

Edit: I would say we build a forums system for -ians by -ians but I'm not writing in god-awful PHP and CM would rather drown in dog **** than operate a Windows box. :P
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2010-07-23, 10:52 PM #21
I miss UBB(.classic). That's nostalgic. Pity UBB had to die. I remember being so pumped about the new versions back in like 2004 or something.
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2010-07-23, 10:55 PM #22
Originally posted by dalf:
Wanna design one in .NET?

Seriously. I've been looking for something to do.
I'd help, but I'm too busy. Also, I'd use GWT.
2010-07-23, 10:58 PM #23
GWT?
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2010-07-23, 11:13 PM #24
Google Web Toolkit. It compiles Java into Javascript, has a great Eclipse plugin, support for JUnit, a Swing-like UI event model, optional netbeans/xml driven ui layout and localization, automatic resource management (e.g. it automatically compiles small images into pages and handles all of the CSS for you,) lots of built-in widgets for layout that automatically handle browser issues.... it's by far the best possible framework for web development.
2010-07-24, 6:56 AM #25
Originally posted by dalf:
Edit: I would say we build a forums system for -ians by -ians but I'm not writing in god-awful PHP and CM would rather drown in dog **** than operate a Windows box. :P


I have Mono on this server, so it's more of:

"dalf would rather drown in dog **** than code for Mono implementation of ASP.net" :P
2010-07-24, 7:37 AM #26
Mono fully supports ASP.NET 2.0 and it's not "half assed"
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