The forum seems blank and empty without the banners but its really great that the forum is back, missed it yesterday!

Good luck with the updates mods and thanks for making this more secure.

Ahaha when I saw the downtime message, saying that some members were under 18/16 and it was being taken as a serious matter, I was gutted, I turned 18 last week, damn. Thank you to Mark and James for being pros!

I miss TiBB. Thanks for doing your best to make sure were all ok :)

Why isn't my banner appearing on certain posts I do?

My avatars gone

So did mine, it must have been a feature added on to upload them. In the basic one it requests a URL so I have given it the URL of the thumbnail used for mine on Facebook

For avatar sizes for big pictures do this.

Save picture on your computer

Resize it on this website http://www.online-image-editor.com/ to no bigger then 150 x 160.

Upload on http://tinypic.com/

Copy direct link code [Bottom line]

Then paste that link into your avatar URL thing in your profile.

Then your done.

Please help - I can't seem to get back onto the BB10 forum. Just keeps saying wepage not available. Then had problems logging in again, but now OK. Yet I can see posts have been posted. Need some reassurance! Security issues??

Welcome back everyone. :wavey:

[rquote=2500613&tid=144192&author=Luanda]I used to run a forum with 15,000 members. The forum used was Invision but the security issues were the same. May I just outline the following;

1. The password problem is being misunderstood. The hackers did not see your password, they saw an encrypted version of your password. These encrypted versions can be broken by looking them up on the internet but only if you were stupid enough to use a password that was simple and not obscure. Banking issues are nonsense and hysterical. Think about how you enter your banking password/PIN/email address and you will see.

2. The Data Protection Act can be used against the people who hacked the board. However, one has to prove they took the email addresses and personal information as opposed to just having access to it. That is very hard to prove. Individual members can complain to the police but you will be lucky if the police decide to put resources into investigating your complaint.

3. The owners of this board must bear some responsibility for this. As features have been lost I gather the old board accrued features but security patches were not installed. This is not acceptable. I do not understand why security patches were not installed as they became available but can guess this was because of the features added and an unwillingness to risk having to reconfigure them as and when security patches were added.

4. No discussion board is 100% secure. A fact.

5. Board/Site wars are nothing new. If you have thousands of posts made by members, some will undoubtedly make posts that offend others. The nature of the internet means that offence can be taken and individuals or groups will try and inconvenience the board concerned. A new member on my board made a post containing a script that planted a "bomb" that shut down all members computers who were online at the time and opened the post, it also altered registry entries. Very nasty and inconvenient.

6. If you have a board yourself the path/route to certain features are easy to access on similar boards if you know the directory structure of the board involved. This is why certain folders and files should have their names altered for security. This can only be done by the owners of the board.

7. Never, I repeat, never trust anyone on a discussion board. Boards act as a magnet to narcissists and sociopaths. One can easily be led into doing things that under normal circumstances one would not do. Never give any personal information to anyone by U2U or email. It may seem common sense not to do these things but a board generates a feeling of community and one's guard is lowered after a time.

8. In the board T & C's it should be made clear you use the board at your own risk.

9. It seems user groups for admin's and mod's have been lost. It takes time for these to be restored but it may come as a warning to the board owners that sections of the board that may be segregated for certain user groups can never be secure. Private areas can be accessed in the event of a board breakdown and can cause acute embarrassment. It has happened to me. Edited: It seems some threads for the mod's are open to all users. Just the sort of thing that happens when user groups are messed with.

Good luck to the owners of the board and I wish you all the best in the future. [/rquote]
Great post. :thumbs:

There is a problem with user accounts that have fewer than 3 letters. Anyone who has one of these and tries to log in will get a wrong password message. I will try and fix this.

Password Changed. Thanks for the information Mark/James

[rquote=2500595&tid=144192&author=bronaaaa][rquote=2500511&tid=144192&author=Nicky.]
and um, I'm not defending anyone! I'm mates with Mark, and I know this wasn't his fault... or James'! It's just one of them things!

and if they actually can't access your internet bank account, why did you make such a fuss? I wouldn't be the boy who called wolf if I were you. If you are that annoyed with TiBB, just go! xD It's not hard not to type the URL in the search bar :3
Xx [/rquote]

Haha I love the xx at the end :laugh::tongue:
And yes, I agree with you there, bit silly using the same password for your bank, and it's not Mark or Jame's fault this all happened
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Without the Xx, the post would be uncomplete. It's like going out the door without your shoes. It's silly! xD

Are the hm subforums going to stay separate from the main BB10 page? I miss them being at the top of the page, and not having to go out to get to them (I never venture into the other forums, only the BB10 one).

Missing karma too.

This is ****ed up.

As soon as I go away for a few days the forum nearly dies... :whistle:

And as soon as you come back, a little part of me dies.

[rquote=2507193&tid=144192&author=Shaun]And as soon as you come back, a little part of me dies.[/rquote]:dance:

Woah forum gone all wrong. I dont like how you cant see the last posted in threads

I've changed my password here, but isn't it a little too late, if things had already been compromised? Have I got to change my password everywhere else?

If you used the same password on your email as on the forum, yeah. :sad: Especially the e-mail password, and particularly if it was a simple one.

Glad it is back anyway and looking forward to it all getting back to normal soon =] And James+Mark, The new feature with the post count showing up, is good! Keep it =]

Yep, should keep the actual post count rather than 5000+ etc.

Also, Karma shouldn't come back.

Any idea when we will be able to edit Custom Status

[rquote=2512537&tid=144192&author=Twilight]Any idea when we will be able to edit Custom Status[/rquote]

Yeah i would like to know too, its been bugging me a bit cos i dont want the BB code to show in mine lol

As in the OP they are not going to do anything until after Big Brother finishes and then the entire future of TIBB will be discussed.