Posts by Abuse_and_Troll_Test

Thought I'd share a conversation I had with someone. Perhaps offer the mindset of an outsider.

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Here's some of the issues I've found with Burning Board.

1. It's lacking caching methods e.g. Opcache + APCu. It only supports Memcached and the file system.

2. It has "Reserved Email Addresses" but what about banning email

addresses via wildcards or a partial address e.g. @10minutemail.org or *@10minutemail.*

3. It says that it supports reCAPTCHA but it reCAPTCHA v1. What about reCAPTCHA v2 or keyCAPTCHA?

4. The default theme doesn't seem to carry over to the admin/mod area,
so you're stuck with the "Blue Temptation" theme. I'm not a fan of that
theme.

5. How do you hide external links or specific content from guests?

6. There doesn't seem to be a hooking system for plugins? With vBulletin
and maybe XenForo you can add PHP code from the admin panel to create
plugins on the fly.

7. The best themes all cost $14+ (Hypidiomorphic & Switch) and then
it's a further $89.99 for the basic Burning Board package w/o any
plugins.

8. There doesn't seem to be a chat plugin that has the exact same group
chat functionality as what we've already got. Tim's chat is ugly too
(yellow!?)

9. It seems over simplified as it's lacking a lot of options that both vBulletin and XenForo offer.

10. Most of the good plugins aren't free, but the equivalent features are either built into vB4 or they're available for free.

I'm not seeing any API documentation and I'd be worried that it's not all in English I can't speak a word of German

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I replied to their comments and here is their reply.

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1. We use Opcache + APCu since that's the best solution for PHP 7.

2. The "Reserved Email Addresses" option doesn't specifically say that you
can do that. I've had a good look through the menus too and it doesn't
mention banning email addresses anywhere

3. The control panel option looks like it only offered the 1 option. I know that IPB offers 3 or 4 options though.

5. I looked through the group settings, but I didn't see anything for content censoring.

I really don't want to retheme plugins. Burning Board needs to have
better theme support so that plugins will adapt to whatever theme you're
using. That plus the admin panel should use the skin that you select
and not switch to a the god awful blue one.

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The character limit seems to be counting html and not just text, spaces, smilies, or bb code.

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There is no reason in deleting a feature nearly every website has. It's also more comfortsble to tyoe in the username in most cases, especially if you still login with username.

No one has suggested deleting anything. Having an option to disable something is not the same as removing it.

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Seeing this:

option to register without email

I think you should really be able to understand my point of view.

I do but I also see what is the usual norm in most communties. My request, just as your point of view, is the exception to the rule and not the usual accepted norm.

I agree with ciajoe_test It would be better to disable to link for guest and perhaps display only text.

Please and thank you in advance.

This is a wish of mine. To be able to join a site without an email address. It would obviously need to be optional. I know you can already disable IP address logging. I would like to have a truly anonymous membership and not just guest posting.

If this cannot be done please take this as an early request for consideration for plugin development.

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I nearly never use my real email.

Sounds like a personal problem. Most people understand that you need an email address to either confirm membership or recover your account. If you are not using a valid email address it is obviously not that important to you to keep your account and you can just as easily reregister.

the question is automatically implied with common sense. it is simple common sense and a point of fact that not all communities are alike.

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None really, people can simply use a shorter username instead.

Just a forum username, they can use anything when all said and done... and you have to take into consideration things like length of username displayed in sidebar with forum posts and does it fit the width.

I'm sorry but that does not answer my question.

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Usernames may not contain words longer than 20 characters, so you can actually go up to 25 characters (the configurable maximum is 100 characters) but it will still require a space after 20 successive characters. We'll take no steps to change the current behavior, as this is a crafted scenario that does not happen in reality - this is also backed by the fact that you're the first after many years to notice this hard-wired restriction

what impact would this have in the real-world where there are sites with user-names with 25 characters without spaces?

Username is invalid - 25 characters long

Site clearly reads pick between 3 - 25, but tells you it's invalid if you pick 25 (tested here). If you've changed that setting, the text should reflect it. If you've not changed that setting, it's still a bug.

This thread can break the responsive layout

https://beta.woltlab.com/forum/thread/709/?postID=3804

The target is to have a functioning software layout that will still properly function even when abused and staff are not available (immediately) to deal with such abuse (after all, no one is online 24/7).