Our forum is back!

Alex · Post by **Alex** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:41 pm

Hi everyone

It has been a long time, but finally, we are back!

The forum was hacked, so we had to do a lot of repair work and upgrades to
the security of the site. It is now more secure than before, so (hopefully)
will not be so vulnerable in the future.

Thanks to everyone for being patient.

You will notice that the site looks different at the moment. We will change
the appearance as soon as possible.

The gallery was a weak spot, which could let hackers in, so this is
disabled for now. We will try to update it to a more secure version in the
future.

Alex

Roland · Post by **Roland** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:49 pm

Thank you for all your work.

Mabel Figworthy · Post by **Mabel Figworthy** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 5:50 pm

Hurray! and well done

. Thank you for getting us back online, and more secure into the bargain. I missed this place!

mauveme · Post by **mauveme** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:15 pm

Re: Our forum is back!

agi · Post by **agi** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:19 pm

Thank you so much for all your hard work. Do you need something cross stitched? Just shout!

Podolyanka · Post by **Podolyanka** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 8:19 pm

Thank you very much for your hard work, Alex.

Kuschelschaf · Post by **Kuschelschaf** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:39 pm

Yaaaaaaay! Thank you so much!! I am so excited that we're back! I really missed being here.

karen4bells · Post by **karen4bells** » Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:55 pm

Thank you so very much for getting us back online, Alex!!! I know that a lot of us were having withdrawals from our little community and it is so very nice to be back!!! THANK YOU!!!!

rcperryls · Post by **rcperryls** » Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:12 am

Thank you Thank you Thank you. I wish there was some way to let you know how very very much we appreciate what you do for us.

Carole

fccs · Post by **fccs** » Sat Jun 08, 2019 4:47 am

rcperryls wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:12 am
Thank you Thank you Thank you. I wish there was some way to let you know how very very much we appreciate what you do for us.

Carole

Yes!

vanessanjf · Post by **vanessanjf** » Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:04 am

Yeah we are back!!! Thanks for all your hard work Alex. I was just wondering about the gallery.

wendywombat · Post by **wendywombat** » Sun Jun 09, 2019 2:31 pm

Just come home from a few days away and Oh My Goodness! I made a hopeful 'click' on the Forum icon and WOW!!

Thank You so much Alex for all your hard work getting Our Wonderful Forum back up and running!!

cristaltipps · Post by **cristaltipps** » Sun Jun 09, 2019 7:52 pm

Thank you does not seem enough but sincerely THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH xxxxx

richardandtracy · Post by **richardandtracy** » Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:29 am

Very good news. Glad to be back.
I notice the 'https' start to the address, slightly re-assuring as it indicates newer forum software is in use. Hopefully the gallery is the only current vulnerability.

Anyway, thanks for the efforts to get the software upgraded. I've been behind the scenes at another forum and seen the amount of admin work needed to upgrade the software. It can be absolutely phenomenal, especially as the board developers rarely try to maintain skin compatibility between versions. In the case of that board, 600k lines of code have to be checked and potentially modified to keep the main forum page alone working every software upgrade. Explains why they tend to skip every other upgrade.

Regards,

Richard

Garnet · Post by **Garnet** » Mon Jun 10, 2019 9:18 am

YAY!!!!!

Our lovely forum is back

THANK YOU so much to Alex and the team for all the hard work in getting us up and running again. You are all

Richard I also noticed the https, thanks for the additional info.