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Old 04-02-2026, 03:20 PM   #1
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The Official Revscene is Broken and We Should Probably Band Together t Fix It, Thread

Forked from the "No Need to Start a New Thread" thread, because... there is a need to start a new thread .

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[...] the forum is starting to fall apart (Skinny's been cobbling stuff together in the back end, and it's barely holding together with duct tape). Not just falling apart as in loading slower or ceasing to function, but also that there are unpatched exploits and we're increasingly being hacked - it just happened again a couple of weeks ago.

The motivation is just to keep stuff running: I think it should be akin to picking up a new Camry to replace our 25 year old Camry, rather than updating to an ES500h.
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Yeah the software literally HAS to be replaced now. It should have been long ago, but it kind of went unnoticed for a long time. But now it's under attack constantly, so the vulnerabilities have to go. I have done what I can to keep it up for now

The new software is basically still a forum layout. It still works in the same way, with forums, threads, replies. We're not switching to like inline replies or chat based or anything like that. Still a forum, just modern.
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