Andrew's Journal

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I used to manage a handful of MyBB forums. LeetCoders (defunct, but still on WayBack Machine) at its peak had 12k members. I was the admin on Leetcoders and a handful of other smaller forums so I am very familiar with MyBB in its entirety including the moderation end of things. I had around 10 mods who were enthusiasts on the topic of interest, being coding and programming: namely the creation of hack tools. I'm 23, and in years past I made these sites purely for my own enjoyment. I now work for a fortune 500 tech company who's name I wont mention here (PM is fine).

I am more than happy to assist or carry out MyBB functions in the event of your absence due to health concerns or to help out in a general sense.

Pleased to meet ya Andrew


edit: wow, this site really aught to use Cloud Flare. Cloudflare.com. Helps tremendously with load balancing and speed improvements, not to mention the free version can stop a moderate sized DDoS attack, plus a host of other features that prevent SQL injection among other things.
http://www.doesitusecloudflare.com/?url=...l-talk.com

We used to use cloudflare, but it had a lot of errors, even worse had a big global delay at first when trying to use their horrendous DNS, and had crazy amounts of downtime and issues back then. Is it better now? When it worked, it did work, but I found optimizing the forum as it was gave it almost the performance of what it could do back then without the uptime/reliability problems. It really was a piece of junk back then. I appreciate the offer to help. I may take you up on it when moving to the latest mybb. Which has always been a painful idea because I felt this generation of mybb really hit a sweet spot and of course our old theme isn't compatible...blah blah

Cloudflare was crap for the first 2 years or so. It's been out for awhile and has come a LONG way. I might know a handful of (friendly) shady folk who hate cloudflare because it means they can no longer screw with a site CF alone should prevent the 'need' to upgrade mybb versions. I used to deal with the hacking / coding crowd so my site was a prime target and as such I updated whenever the newest version of MyBB came out. If you do use CF, the only reason I see for upgrading is if you want to use a certain plugin that is not backward compatible (aside from editing the compatibility code within the plugin) or if you want to switch themes for more modern functionality and feel. Having said that, my offer still stands to help out with a version upgrade if you ever need a hand with it in the future!