Are you a part of this private beta? Or just guessing with your caplock on?
Neither. Scroll up and actually read what Lauda posted. You will see that he is saying that the private beta is hosted.half million dollars' worth of a pain in the ass?! This is just frickin' forum software, not rocket surgery.
So what you're telling me is it's easier to do everything from scratch? Easier than starting with hardened, updated & feature-enhanced version of current software, you say?
And though this forum has the functionality and looks of an off-the-shelf '09 SMF, theymos completely recoded the back end in hand-optimized assembler, counting clock cycles as he went along, and this '09 SMF is a sleeper with chained death under the hood, correct?
Look, I wanna believe you, but I don't. Because you'd be lying. Find it pretty insulting that you expect me to buy this "Theymos did important, complicated and dangerous stuffs you won't understand because scientific and dangerous, so don't ask!" shit.
Intrigued, do tell me more.
No, that is not what I said. Maybe I wasn't clear enough the first time. Let me try again.So what you're telling me is it's easier to do everything from scratch? Easier than starting with hardened, updated & feature-enhanced version of current software, you say?
And though this forum has the functionality and looks of an off-the-shelf '09 SMF, theymos completely recoded the back end in hand-optimized assembler, counting clock cycles as he went along, and this '09 SMF is a sleeper with chained death under the hood, correct?
Look, I wanna believe you, but I don't. Because you'd be lying. Find it pretty insulting that you expect me to buy this "Theymos did important, complicated and dangerous stuffs you won't understand because scientific and dangerous, so don't ask!" shit.
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There have been many changes to the forum software such that to upgrade to a new system could be potentially dangerous.
Honest? More dangerous than running brand new software coded by dude calling himsel wngbus, who theymos never met?Intrigued, do tell me more.
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Security holes patched here would need to be re patched.
When new software versions are released nowadays, some of the security holes from the previous versions often get (by oversight and due to shabby workmanship) omitted. Follow this links to SMF to learn the new shit that happened in the software world since '09. Theymos has made many modifications to the forum software, primarily to patch security issues. I don't know the extent of the changes, but you can search around for them in this forum as they have been mentioned in many posts by Theymos in the past. These changes may not be compatible with the latest software. Introducing these mods to the updated software could introduce new security holes yet those changes may be desired for this forum. To add those changes and then hunt down any potential security bugs is probably not worth the effort.
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Changes made here would need to be remade. Other problems could crop up with using the new software such as new security vulnerabilities.
I agree, changing from '09 version to a new major version, one which underwent an extra 7 years of development, might introduce some security vulnerabilities.Good thing there's no chance of that happening with new software coded by (at best) an unknown company with no experience in coding forum software & beta tested by a handful of toadying yes-men
