Quote from: reddeercity on February 22, 2024, 12:58:05 AM"it it's not broke don't fix it" so was there a problem with the old site?
a) the forum software was so old, i couldn't even figure out what the potential for security holes was
b) the php version used was so old, i couldn't make any updates to the system without breaking at least the wiki too
c) the wiki version was so old and had security holes was just protected by the user credentials that lately revealed to be brute forced with leaked/breached credentials
d) there were too many spam messages by probably (?) leaked user accounts and there was no way to harden the forum against threats as it was so old
e) the database was crippled by too many old plugins messing around with tables
even for e) alone it was time to upgrade to a new forum version, trying to fix.
its like "why dare you to replace that camera (that falls apart), the photos are great!"