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Choppy
02-17-2002, 08:43 PM
Just a word of warning,

Xmb forum which i used on customers cpanels, is a nice script in theory if you hve nice members.

Recently a customer of a high volume site was running the script that i actually setup on our server... The script kept getting nuked, people would log on as superusers and deface the logos, make there own mods and ban everyone else.

Even the makers of xmb describe some flaws, but i never believed it would be that BAD! :mad:

The customer had to take his site elsewhere due to this risk, which also looks bad on security for us!

Best thing i believe dont use it at all.

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Haze
02-17-2002, 10:21 PM
XMBforum is under new management, so to speak. Version 1.6 "Magic Lantern" is supposed to be coming out within a week or two and things look very promising. You really should have wanred your client that the XMB forum, was in Beta release as stated at the bottom of the forum. Its probably best to tell them to go with a board that is already proven itself if they need to use a board. Some examples are phpBB ( http://www.phpBB.com ) and IkonBoard ( http://www.ikonboard.com ), Ikonboard now has a new developer I hear. OpenBB also looks quite promissing available through http://www.iansoft.net

ochost-shaun
02-18-2002, 06:34 AM
Cpanel is going to switch to openbb. They are writing a util for converting existing XMB forums over to OpenBB.