Newer versions of vBulletin forum software heavily cracked by hax0rs

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http://arstechnica.com/security/2013...0-day-attacks/

vbulletin.com itself was hacked, several other major vBulletin sites were hacked, and it's a major fuckup for the Internet.

The one bright spot? cellar.org only runs a version 3 vBulletin installation. It's about six years out of date... but not vulnerable to these exploits. Only versions 4 and 5 are vulnerable.

vBulletin was bought out about six years ago. I became wary of the software's new owners being moneygrubbing greedheads, with no interest in building something maintainable and manageable. All new code they've written since buying vBullletin has been terrible. More oriented around making them money than supporting the millions of people who depend on their software. And now everything's going to shit, and it's a major issue for forum sites everywhere.

So I suppose I will brag about having gotten that right; but the point is, whenever we move to any new forum software, we will definitely not be running vBulletin.

Not that it's necessary to change, users hate change, but it's possible somebody could write some forum software that's truly innovative and good, and that could be cool for us to share.