XenForo has revoked our license

[Ozzymandias]

surprised you havnt hired some vodka fellows to take a quick train ride to take a visit to his knee caps. In minecraft while playing fortnite of course.

 

[thismanlies]

We are one of the largest and most active communities running XenForo.

Imagine cutting off one of your biggest customers at the insistence of a man who is legally banned from talking about Evanescence.

 

[fineapple]

its anuddah shoah! the most persecuted website! 109!

 

[Plaintiff is fat]

Affero GPL so any re.tard using it cannot deny releasing the source and/or crediting the Feeder

funny but better to maximize the damage to XenForo LLC angloids by having an easy-to-migrate free alternative that isn't associated with the farms and entice a bunch of their clients to use it

 

[MrTroll]

Will my stickers be okay?????

 

[Slimy Time]

How old is Sammy again? I seem to remember his mother dying of extremely early onset dementia. Haven’t payed attention to him since Donny Long and the Autistic Legion of Doom.

He is 40+ now. His thread had all but died with the odd meme about him once a month, with a last post in July until today.

It's true. He does seem to always visit during December/January.

He's the Ghost of Christmas Autism.

 

[Pointless Sperg]

i thought rust was for trannies

The trannies love to argue about terminology and such in the language -- they argue endlessly about how we have to avoid stuff like "kill child process". They don't fuck up the language itself from a CS perspective though. The advantage of Rust is that it has good enforcement of things like buffer bounding while still having good performance. If you're exposing code to the internet, it's a good idea.

Rust would probably be a lot harder to DDoS on a request basis, if written well, due to less CPU load and lower latency. They could still DDoS on bandwidth, though. I've wondered for a while if only announcing IPv6 subnets would help on that front, with IPv4 only clients being able to connect through Cloudflare.

That would lower the threat surface a bit, and it would prevent some kinds of low-effort reflection attacks, but IPv6 adoption is wide enough now that you'd still get hit by substantial botnets.

I have an old issue of COMPUTE! magazine that has BBS software in it. That'll totally work, right?

Oh god I know the exact software you're talking about.

Affero GPL so any re.tard using it cannot deny releasing the source and/or crediting the Feeder
Or in maximum FOSS-profit mode, Affero GPL for "free" users, proprietary for "Premium" user

From an end-user perspective Affero sucks if you have to do a quick patch to suit your environment. You have to expose your fork to the world but since it's not in the main branch you don't get the many-eyes security benefit -- instead the only eyes looking at it are threat actors.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

Speaking of Rust... The entire Rust moderation team resigned because they were butthurt that the core devs weren't accountable to them.

I believe I can rightly assume that this is based and sneedpilled.

An edit sometime later: As @mongrelmuch pointed out below, the core devs apparently have their own issues with Coping and Seething™, something to do with some socjus nutter named Ashley who is on the team. Regardless, I still can't help but dab on the jannies.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Rust is going to amend its license to ban evil transphobes from using it.
Make it happen, Sammy.

If you can fork it, doesn't matter. Except it would be good for laughs.

 

[Matt Damon]

Speaking of Rust... The entire Rust moderation team resigned because they were butthurt that the core devs weren't accountable to them.

I believe I can rightly assume that this is based and sneedpilled.

Are you telling me some tranny jannies who do it for free went on an ego trip only to realize nobody cares about them or values their "work"?

What a shock.

 

[Da Grim Reaper]

...And people finger point at China due to 'censorship'.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Vordrak and Xenforo are fat and I would not sex.

 

[byuu]

If you can fork it, doesn't matter. Except it would be good for laughs.

It would be easier to rewrite it in a different language then maintain your own incompatible fork of a big complex compiler.

 

[Screw Danlon]

Null sacrifices so much to protect our right to call people niggers on the internet. Let's give him some reddit karma as thanks.

I respect Josh too much to give him reddit cancer.

I had never read the Vordrak thread. Now I have a reason to.

 

[theshep]

Are there any open source options which don't totally suck?

 

[mongrelmuch]

Aw sheeit nigga, wish I was further along my Rust studies than I actually am.

As for

Are you telling me some tranny jannies who do it for free went on an ego trip only to realize nobody cares about them or values their "work"?

What a shock.

It might appear this way, but the mod team (actually consisting of highly active true and honest contributors) most likely resigned in response to this socjus grifter Ashley being given free reign: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515306

 

[Kahr CW9]

Its crazy when you consider its literally some spastic on bennies with no influence or sway over anyone or anything. He must be really good at writing scary sounding emails. I don't know when exactly, but at some point businesses lost the ability to say "fuck off dickhead" to these people, or I guess at the very least just ignore them. Are they all that paranoid of getting bad PR because of what some loon in the middle of nowhere in England says?

I have always found it odd that companies like XenForo would kowtow to individuals that do not contribute any monetary value to them. Let’s say that Null loves Frosted Flakes. Will enough emails to Kellogg’s make it so that Null’s permissions to buy and consume their products is revoked? Jokes on them, he has one of those absurdly large CostCo Mexican family sized boxes in the pantry. Seriously, no one knows about or cares what XenForo is. It’s not like the software is an …. As a Service, so, this really did fuck all except make it impossible to apply the already shitty XenForo updates pushes out (and they do not act quickly on egregious 0days).

Fuck this software, lol

There is a small but significant (and growing) section of the male population who have internalized their boogeymen to such a degree that they are frozen and frightened of engaging in any behavior that could maybe, at some point, make someone feel negative emotions in their direction. The classic example is cuckservatives shitting themselves if they get called 'racist', but it runs the whole gamut. I've seen these dudes get unironically scared of the following, despite it being perfectly ok, legal, and professionally acceptable for them to do:

• Send Christmas cards with Jesus on them
• Taking lunch 10 minutes early
• Not asking for a raise for his employees
• Cancelling a newspaper subscription because the editor badmouthed him in the opinion pages
• Removing a homo from his church
• Telling someone they won't engage in an illegal act
• Tow the guy blocking his driveway

It's bizarre, there's no consequences, and I suspect that XenForo has at least one of these guys in their chain of command because cutting off a paying customer for, really, no reason is retarded. What are they afraid of, that someone will write an op-ed calling out some nobody company for engaging in legal business practices? (yes lmao)

 

[Liber Pater]

I wonder what HostGator (TOS here) would think about the sort of activity Vordrak engages in on Matthew Hopkins News.

Spoiler: UwU what's this?

abuse@hostgator.com

 

[Turbocuck]

Speaking of Rust... The entire Rust moderation team resigned because they were butthurt that the core devs weren't accountable to them.

I believe I can rightly assume that this is based and sneedpilled.

If I'm reading this correctly, the moderation team wigged out because they weren't allowed to tell the actual leadership of the entire project what to do?

 

[Ira the Weatherman]

So what I'm hearing here is that Nu-KF may not have stickers.

He said that he intends for the new framework to be XenForo-compatible, so I'm guessing not much will change from the average user's point of view in terms of features disappearing altogether, rather that those features might start working faster/slower.

It'd still be pretty fucking funny if he used it as an excuse to nuke shit like stickers and chat just for the absolute tsunami of neurotic piss that would unleash.