Every time I make a post on this site and click "Post Reply," I get a message asking for confirmation to "navigate away from the page," and when the page loads with my new post, a double post will have been made - including the auto-merge. I've tried clearing my cache and this hasn't helped. Anything I can do?
It's a bug with the double post auto-merger. A fix was put up in a new version of vBulletin ages ago but since nobody can patch the site anymore, it's here to stay. The reason why it happens is somewhat technical, but it boils down to having a slower connection to EP at the time of post causing duplicate data to be sent over. There is nothing the individual user can really do about it.
Nobody can patch the site? Does no one have access to the server to install updates or is it a vB thing? Even without being able to install updates I'm sure too many issues shouldn't arise -for a while at least- but it's still good to keep the site up-to-date on the patch releases. Security issues alone are reason enough to keep installing the updates. This should probably be a top priority matter to be able to gain access to these updates again.
The guy who owns the license who opened this site vanished off the face of the earth ~2 years ago. Nobody has ever been able to get it from him. EP has essentially become a bit hand-me-down when the current admins get bored of it, for lack of a better term. I would imagine with the ad monies they supposedly are getting, maybe they will buy one of their own. Or even better, buy a license for xenforo.
Clearing my cookies for the site to fix my bad gateway issue fixed my issue with double-posting as well, it seems. What's this about not having the license for the site, though? It seems the site is doing fine without it, at least. It would be nice to keep updated to avoid issues like the double posting one I'd had, though.
That. And when exploits will continue to pour out for potential script kiddies to use to try and break the site. Not so much as if but when. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
Not really. Your defense is ensuring your code is secure. Only way to ensure that is through keeping yourself patched. People break into sites most commonly through finding little security holes where they can send in malicious data stream or requests or hijack and alter legitimate ones. Typically this is done through data fields or where URLs send and retrieve data that aren't properly "cleaned" of malicious characters that the site would otherwise interpret as arbitrary code. People figure out these oversights by developers by simply playing around and see if they can break through. But that's very much an in a nutshell description and it's more involved than that to actually find such successful vulnerabilities. However once they are known, anybody can do it. These are most commonly known are SQL injection and XSS (cross site scripting) attacks. vbulletin is a pretty secure platform by itself but vulnerabilities will come out. There's also dangers in third party plugins which EP uses many, if poorly coded can make it even easier. Those can be updated though without need to see the license. But that's of course up to their respective developers to keep up to date on security standards. It should have. Yes. But it didn't so someone will pay the price eventually. I don't blame anyone, except twif. Licenses are not cheap, and we should be entitled to own it without needing to repurchase it for full price. But it obviously didn't and won't go down that way. Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
There's a lot I want to say about him, but I will refrain. There were many, MANY attempts made. He never answered and whenever he did it was only things regarding himself. He purposely ignored me for months, so I simply just gave up on trying to get him. Now that the site is under different management, it's probably no longer worth their time. They should just plan for the future and seek to secure a license of their own.
He'll be breaking vB's TOS, one license per domain...It has no use to him. That's why the whole situation is incredibly dumb. :I
Mmh, I would guess he might think he could get away with claiming that this isn't his domain since there's the new admins in control of the site for the most part. Which could cause issues for this site if that does happen, I would suppose, even if vB says "nice try." Going on that though, actually, is there any way to contact vB about the license? Explain the issue?
To be honest, out of the two, I personally prefer XenForo. It has better customer support and loads more functionality. I haven't really had the chance to play with vB 5 yet though so this is just on a comparison between vB 4 and XenForo. The only real issue I'd imagine this site having as far as switching to XenForo would be all of your custom content. The radio, the blogs, the chat, fan-fiction section, etc. Of course there's no real guarantee that upgrading to vB 5 would be easy either. Comparatively speaking, however, the license for XenForo is a lot cheaper than the license for vB 5. $140 USD for XenForo and $209 USD for vB 5/4 (because 4 will no longer be sold seperately). I actually have a XenForo license I would be willing to donate (seeing as I really don't use it for anything and my forum has less than 7 users) that EP could use until it can afford its own license.
I've not heard of XenForo until now. I'm not much of a traveling forumer and I've only ever (really) been on vB forums. I would also imagine that transferring to a different type of BBS would have no way to transfer all the threads and posts that have been created, would it not?
No actually it would transfer every thread and post. Things it would run into trouble transferring would be the custom stuff EP has, like the blogs and such. The threads and posts would be perfectly fine.
Well that does sound good. There's still the livestream channel for the radio, I presume, and I don't imagine it would be too hard to get those set back up once everything else gets transferred. Also, this thread has gotten completely off-topic. Issue in OP has been resolved, should we move this discussion elsewhere?
As far as the radio goes, that's as simple as creating a custom page with XenForo and placing the code for the livestream inside it. The radio would be one of the lesser issues as it could be fixed fairly quick. The problems would be things like getting the usernames to change for the RP sections (which wouldn't be too difficult), importing blog posts (would have to find a blog modification for XenForo or could potentially import them as threads/posts), the fan-fiction section wouldn't have the same layout anymore (I'm not really sure about this one as I've never used a modification like that before). So there would be some issues but they could be fixed with time.
