We setup this forum in around 2006 and we have some members with accounts still that were setup in anything from 2008 to 2023. Some with great potential, some mastered the forum and really helped shape it into what ti once was (not the Gas Safe Register and RedSaw and that lot that were abusing the forum for financial gain).
So I've gone through all the accounts, I've made most become Esteemed Members (green badge that's automatically applied based on your like count etc. Some had an issue with this so I've overridden it for just those few accounts who had many posts on the forum before the likes system was installed etc.
For others it is the aggressive ads. We for that I've given you all Subscribed tag too.
It should be a lovely forum to browse now for you. Just pure content and nothing else.
So please spread the word around, I've had some time in hospital having a couple of lung bits out that were heavily infected (since covid) so Lou was running the forum as best Lou can bless. She's not got the years behind her but she did brilliantly.
Anyway, if you could check in by replying to this thread (IMPORTANT) so I know you're active and intend to post. Or let me know if you don't want to test the forum out now and I'll erase your account and rename the name the posts will then fall under. I'll give it a few weeks don't worry so try put the feelers out for me please.
I know that trades forum is shyte it is running on very poor software which stores passwords as real text rather than hashing them out (providing security layer). At least it's not running on Wordpress. I was able to break in a competitors forum last month and played around with their admin settings and then erased my account. They had to roll back to a previous backup and lost a lot of content. Will see what Zero-Day exploits are creating vulnerable parts of the forum. It's classed as white hat if I just break in, then show you how I did it so the loop hole can be fixed, for now.
Anyway, spread the news. We're open for threads and posts and would like all your help in doing that.
Say hi in reply. Spread the word a bit. Let me know if any old users now have new accounts I'll see if I can tag posts to it for you.
Thanks Dan and Lou
So I've gone through all the accounts, I've made most become Esteemed Members (green badge that's automatically applied based on your like count etc. Some had an issue with this so I've overridden it for just those few accounts who had many posts on the forum before the likes system was installed etc.
For others it is the aggressive ads. We for that I've given you all Subscribed tag too.
It should be a lovely forum to browse now for you. Just pure content and nothing else.
So please spread the word around, I've had some time in hospital having a couple of lung bits out that were heavily infected (since covid) so Lou was running the forum as best Lou can bless. She's not got the years behind her but she did brilliantly.
Anyway, if you could check in by replying to this thread (IMPORTANT) so I know you're active and intend to post. Or let me know if you don't want to test the forum out now and I'll erase your account and rename the name the posts will then fall under. I'll give it a few weeks don't worry so try put the feelers out for me please.
I know that trades forum is shyte it is running on very poor software which stores passwords as real text rather than hashing them out (providing security layer). At least it's not running on Wordpress. I was able to break in a competitors forum last month and played around with their admin settings and then erased my account. They had to roll back to a previous backup and lost a lot of content. Will see what Zero-Day exploits are creating vulnerable parts of the forum. It's classed as white hat if I just break in, then show you how I did it so the loop hole can be fixed, for now.
Anyway, spread the news. We're open for threads and posts and would like all your help in doing that.
Say hi in reply. Spread the word a bit. Let me know if any old users now have new accounts I'll see if I can tag posts to it for you.
Thanks Dan and Lou
