XenForo has revoked our license

[Null]

Long-time friend of the forum Samuel Collingwood Smith emailed some more threats to XenForo and they discontinued our license. If you don't know, Sam has been the primary actor in trying to deplatform the site for more than 6 years now. He has been quiet for a while but has always been looking for opportunities to insert himself in our affairs.

The results of this decision are:
1. We can continue using the software, as it is, indefinitely.
2. I will no longer receive customer support.
3. I will not get updates to the software.

With #3 I am subscribed to 0day trackers so if something compromises the version of the software we're on I will find a way to patch it out. Don't want to say much more than that.

Moving forward,
Nothing changes, for a while.

XenForo's issues drove me to start working on forum software made in Rust very recently, coincidentally.

There are numerous issues with XenForo. It cannot serve its purpose for a site as large as ours. We are one of the largest and most active communities running XenForo. Our community also uploads more multimedia than any other XenForo site. PHP (the language XenForo and many websites are written in) has extreme limitations in dealing with multimedia. I have had to hard-code many customization to get the site to work as well as it does. I have other very serious complaints but I will have to sit down to adequately outline them so that everyone can understand.

If you are a Rust developer interested in writing forum software with me, please get in contact and provide some examples of your work. We are currently using Actix, SeaQL[PgSQL], and Askama for templating.

Cheers.

(P.S. The 'Activate XenForo' watermark is a joke.)

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

What doesn't kill the Kiwi Farms can only ever make it stronger.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

It sucks real hard some nutjob can complain about us hard enough to get people to cave. At least in this case, losing the software license doesn't seem like that big of a blow.

 

[PeeveTheSheev]

But they can't revoke our license to say N

 

[Cats]

I think chimpburgers is now my favorite forum user

 

[Pissmaster]

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

It's always a good idea to shit on one of your biggest customers when you sell a product that's becoming (sadly) increasingly irrelevant.

 

[Canoodler]

I'm not capable of thinking for myself, should I panic or not?

 

[Mayo Style Sauce]

I just want to be able to call people retards in peace.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

It's been ages since one of the British Sams popped up. He's going to keep going for the windmills.

 

[mr.moon1488]

So no security concerns as of yet from this?

 

[A tree]

Thank godbear dear leader has famously adequate coding skills.

 

[Null]

So no security concerns as of yet from this?

No. I will make sure any security issues are dealt with.

 

[Octavia]

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

Very interesting, why do companies always do this to their largest audiences?

 

[Consider Lizärds]

What doesn't kill the Kiwi Farms can only ever make it stronger.

Or cost Null 1000s of dollars in legal fees.

 

[dflatline]

Kiwi Farms never dies

 

[Simply Outplayed-HD]

Making this featured just gave Vordrak a lot of dopamine.

 

[mr.moon1488]

No. I will make sure any security issues are dealt with.

Awesome.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

Why specifically Rust? It's a great language, and very powerful, but it seems like overkill for this kind of thing. Not to mention the extremely limited developer pool could make it hard to find devs. C++ might net better results because of how ubiquitous it is while still being more than fast enough to write forum software with. You could probably get away with C# too.

Really as long as it's not PHP it'll be an improvement. You could probably make a webserver in Visual Basic and it'd suck less.

 

[Mister Loser]

Vordrak coming back was certainly one of the things I least expected to happen this year, but I suppose once a terrorist always a terrorist.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

Oh no! Vordrak inadvertantly freed Null from a financial burden of paying for forum software!