Sorry for that sort-of-long absence, Blake . How is everyone?

For the last few weeks I have been working on a forum of mine but I think I've got lost or something. I have everything setup and got some content built but I don't know how to advertise. I have gotten a few people to post but that's it. I don't know any sites where to advertise and I don't have enough money to buy ads. The niche is Call of Duty (not general CoD discussion) which appeals to a wide range of audiences. Does anyone here know where I can properly advertise to get my forum out there?

Thank you.

I think the forum here needs it. I use it a lot. It's really helpful when you want to know if the thread you replied in has had any new posts recently or to just check the latest bumps as it's a lot quicker. I find this feature very convenient so I would like to suggest it...

Thank you.

Is there anyone here who is excited about the new GTA V release on Xbox One/PS4 and soon PC?

It will be the first game I've bought in seven months. I played GTA V a lot on my Xbox 360 but quit after I got my PS4 and my new 1080p TV is grainy whenever I try to use my 720p component cables for my Xbox 360. Practically ever since I had my PS4 it's been collecting dust so I hope GTA V will be able to entertain me for a while.

I'm most excited about first person and the new graphics update. I've been watching streams religiously and the game looks really fun. I will be transferring my character from GTA Online on the Xbox 360 to my PS4.

Does anyone here plan on picking it up tomorrow and want to join me in GTA Online?

In case anyone here's interested, here are the new songs introduced in the Remastered version:

Radio Los Santos:

• Ab-Soul feat. Schoolboy Q - Hunnid Stax (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Ace Hood feat. Future & Rick Ross - Bugatti (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• A$AP Ferg - Work (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Bo Kane feat. Gucci Mane - Break It Down (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Chuck Inglish feat. Ab-Soul & Mac Miller - Came Thru/Easily (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Danny Brown feat. Action Bronson - Bad News (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Danny Brown feat. A$AP Rocky & Zelooperz - Kush Coma (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Freddie Gibbs feat. Mike Dean - Sellin' Dope (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Gangrene - TBA (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• G-Side feat. G-Mane - Relaxin (2011) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank) (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Lil B - Rent Due (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Schoolboy Q feat. Kendrick Lamar - Collard Greens (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Skeme - Millions (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Skeme - Over Sick (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The problem feat. IamSu , Big Lucc & Sage the Gemini - Do It Big (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Travi$ Scott feat. T.I. & 2 Chainz - Upper Echelon (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Young Scooter feat. Gucci Mane - Work (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Bee Gees - Night Fever (1977) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Billy Ocean - Nights (Feel Like Getting Down) (1981) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Cameo - Back And Forth (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine (1981) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Dazz Band - Joystick (1983) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Parliament - Swing Down, Sweet Chariot (1977) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Teena Marie - Lovergirl (1984) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Fatback Band - Gotta Get My Hands On Some (Money) (1979) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Zapp & Roger - Do It Roger (1981) (CONFIRMED)
  

• 2Pac - So Many Tears (1995) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - 1st of tha Month (1995) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• CPO feat. MC Ren - Ballad of a Menace (1990) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• D.O.C. - The Formula (1989) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Eazy-E feat. Ice Cube - No More ?'s (1988) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• E-40 - TBA (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Ja Rule feat. Irv Gotti, Ashanti, Nas & 2Pac - The Pledge Remix (2002) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Jayo Felony - Sherm Stick (1995) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Luniz feat. Michael Marshall - I Got 5 On It (1995) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Snoop Dogg - Gz and Hustlas (1993) (CONFIRMED?) not sure about this one
  
  
• South Central Cartel - Servin' 'Em Heat (1993) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Spice 1 feat. MC Eiht - The Murda Show (1993) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• The Conscious Daughters - We Roll Deep (1993) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Lady of Rage - Afro Puffs (1994) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Warren G feat. O.G.L.B. - This DJ (1994) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Westside Connection - Bow Down (1996) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Charlie Feathers - Get With It (1956) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Ray Price - Crazy Arms (1956) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Tammy Wynette - D-I-V-O-R-C-E (1968) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Highwaymen - Highwayman (1985) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Alannah Myles - Black Velvet (1989) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand (1987) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Boston - Peace of Mind (1976) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Broken English - Comin' On Strong (1987) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Genesis - Land of Confusion (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Golden Earring - Radar Love (1973) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Joan Armatrading - TBA (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son (1976) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Mountain - Mississippi Queen (1970) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night (1982) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Peter Gabriel - Big Time (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Starship - We Built This City (1985) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Survivor - Burning Heart (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Yes - Roundabout (1971) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' (1983) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (1983) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Brass Construction - Changin' (1975) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Jackson Sisters - I Believe In Miracles (1976) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson - Superman Lover (1976) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Ohio Players - Climax (1974) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Smokey Robinson - Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (1973) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Delfonics - Funny Feeling (1970) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• War feat. Eric Burdon - Magic Mountain (1976) (CONFIRMED)
  
  Blue Ark FM:
  
  
• Busy Signal - Kingston Town (2012) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Demarco - Loyal (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Lee "Scratch" Perry - Roast Fish and Cornbread (1978) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Vybz Kartel - Addi Truth (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way (1999) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Bobby Brown - On Our Own (1989) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (1984) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Cassie - Me & U (2006) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (2002) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (2005) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• INXS - New Sensation (1987) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Jamiroquai - Alright (1996) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off (1986) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Lady Gaga - Applause (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Living In A Box - Living In A Box (1987) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Lorde - Tennis Court (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger (2011) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• M.I.A. - Bad Girls (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me (Single Mix) (2010) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Moloko - The Time Is Now (2000) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Morcheeba - Tape Loop (1996) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Naked Eyes - Promises, Promises (1983) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Real Life - Send Me An Angel (1983) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue - Kids (2000) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Simply Red - Something Got Me Started (Hurley's House Mix) (1991) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Sly Fox - Let's Go All the Way (1985) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Sneaker Pimps - Six Underground (1996) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• Taylor Dayne - Tell It to My Heart (1988) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway (2009) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• will.i.am. feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Wilson Phillips - Hold On (1990) (CONFIRMED)
  

• CHVRCHES - Recover (Cid Rim Remix) (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Damfunk - Kildat (2009) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Flume - What You Need (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Jaime Lidell - Runaway (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Jimmy Edgar - Let Yrself Be (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Randy Crawford - Street Life (1979) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Smokey Robinson - Why You Wanna See My Bad Side? (1978) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Alice In Chains - Social Parasite (1988) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• D.O.A. - The Enemy (1980) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• D.R.I. - I Don't Need Society (1985) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• MDC - John Wayne Was a Nazi (1980) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Redd Kross - Linda Blair (1982) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• The Zeroes - Don't Push Me Around (1977) (CONFIRMED)*
  
  
• X - Los Angeles (1980) (CONFIRMED)*Radio Mirror Park:
  
  
• Dom - Living In America (2010) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Holy Ghost! - Hold On (2011) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Hot Chip - Flutes (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Little Dragon - Crystalfilm (2009) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Kauf - When You're Out (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Neon Indian - Polish Girl (2011) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Panama - Always (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• SBTRK - Pharaohs (2011) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Scenic - Mesmerised (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Twin Shadow - Forget (2010) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Yeasayer - O.N.E. (2010) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Bleached - Next Stop (2013) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Coliseum - Used Blood (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• JEFF The Brotherhood - Sixpack (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Mind Spiders - Fall in LIne (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Nobunny - Gone For Good (2010) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Men - Turn It Around (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Orwells - Who Needs You (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• The Soft Pack - Answer to Yourself (2010) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Brain 21 - Something For Your Mind (1996) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Felix da Housecat - Silver Screen (2001) (CONFIRMED)
  

• Dimlite - Into Vogon Skulls (2012) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• DOOM - Masquatch (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Doris - You Never Come Closer (1970) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Flying Lotus feat. Krayzie Bone - Medication Medication (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Flying Lotus - TBA (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• Mono/Poly feat. Thundercat - B Adams (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  
• XXYYXX - What We Want (2014) (CONFIRMED)
  
  

• Charlie Feathers - Get With It
  
  
• Ohio Players - Climax
  
  
• Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
  
  
• Danny Brown feat A$ap rocky - Kush Corna
  
  
• Simply Red - Something Got Me Started (House Remix)
  
  
• Wilson Phillips - Hold On
  

Recently a lot of scrutiny on the quality of MyBB as forum software has come around in recent months. Historically, despite its ugly theme and its lack for certain features, MyBB has had a number of advantages that has made it the software of choice for quite some time for me and for a number of others that I have worked with. In the past, some of its most significant advantages have included its ability to easily modify all theme attributes straight from the ACP, its great plugin system, robust forum features, its simplicity, etc. However, I wonder if it really has much of a future in light of a number of trends, both for MyBB, and for forums in general. 

Yes, it's still great forum software, and in a lot of ways, it still stands high on its crown. However, if you compare MyBB with phpBB 3.1, there are now some important differences. Yes, MyBB is still ahead in terms of its features, but it's based on old technology, and quite frankly, I simply cannot see MyBB 2.0 going anywhere anytime soon at this point. Yes, it's still in planning, but software development takes years, and the team has been disorganized ever since 1.8 was announced over  two years ago. Without more talented developers on the team and/or more organization, MyBB 2.0 will also likely be outdated the day it is released. To compare a few important differences between a newly revived player on the forum scene and MyBB's most recent release...

• PhpBB 3.1 has a responsive default theme. MyBB has virtually no customized support for mobile devices. The archive mode is as close as it gets. Yes, other forum softwares also land in the same boat, but MyBB may become behind fast once other softwares catch up over the next couple of years. 
  
• PhpBB 3.1 has features for notifications, eliminating the need for header and PM notifications all over the place. As much as some notifications annoy me, this is an essential feature for modern forums these days that integrate forum capabilities that require a variety of notifications. 
  
• PhpBB 3.1 has broken a longstanding trend of depending on old technology and has established a system for incremental improvements over costly rewrites. MyBB is still running on old steam at this point. (Don't get me wrong. 1.8 is a good release in terms of polishing what's done, but I feel that's all it really is. They haven't really done anything ground shaking with it, to be honest. More than anything, it just means fewer plugins will need to be installed on a fresh forum because some of these essential features are now included in core. )
  
• PhpBB 3.1 is now based on modern coding standards and makes use of symfony components, which will significantly help its development long-term. I find this impressive considering they did not do a from scratch rewrite to achieve many of their deep improvements to the code base.
  
• While MyBB's plugin/theme system is most certainly much simpler to use, phpBB has made significant steps in improving many aspects of their backend code that includes features that MyBB cannot offer, such as template level hooks. 
  

• 1.8 has had quite a few security issues since its release. Not speaking well of the software at this point. Yes, every software has vulnerabilities, but the most recent github attack and the total of five vulnerabilities (three of which were serious) are a little worrying as someone who uses MyBB, and we were really pretty lucky that none of these vulnerabilities have yet affected us. (To be fair, they have taken steps to prevent this from occurring again, but it's still worrying. MyBB has not generally had a record for security issues in the past. ) 
  
• 1.8 was outdated the day it was released and simply feels like it is running on old steam. Their plans for 2.0 are good, but it's been in planning for years and development has not begun
  
• While the situation (for the first time) seems to have radically improved for MyBB themes, many talented plugin developers seem to have either gone towards developing premium plugins, or have left the community. Some may disagree, but compared to the plugin developers for other competing softwares, I feel MyBB is really a bit behind in a lot of ways.
  

Since several members here are well acquainted with the software that this forum runs on, I feel it's only fair to have an official discussion thread on the topic (if people who feel other software is superior want to create their own, feel free xD)

For those of you who have MyBB forums or who are members of forums running MyBB, the MyBB development team released 1.8.2 yesterday that fixes several vulnerabilities, including three serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited on the software's front end. Needless to say, both this forum and chatcave have been updated.  According to the announcement, MyBB 1.6.15 was not affected by these vulnerabilities.

Everyone seemed surprised when an extremely low risk XSS vulnerability was fixed in phpBB 3.1, and it seems MyBB 1.8 has had quite a few security issues so far going back from its beta days. Hopefully there won't be too many more vulnerabilities that will need to be patched. 

Ask me something?

http://securityintelligence.com/ibm-x-fo...GS1eHW99TA

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30019976

A patch for this was apparently released on tuesday. I'm sure there are other undiscovered security flaws in windows that have yet to be discovered, and I'm afraid to find out. Luckily, as a non-IE user, I don't believe I would have really been at risk (back when I was a windows user, at least), but this is still pretty bad for quite a lot of PC users. 

Not sure what all of these Windows XP people are going to do if Microsoft doesn't release a patch for them as well. 

I know there's a link to it but there's no button to click to get there without pasting the link every time.

What is the latest book you have been reading? It doesn't matter if it takes you one day or three months. If you're like me, you rarely catch a moment and it takes forever to get through more than two chapters.

Personally, I've lately been slowly re-reading Machievelli's The Prince. It's not the most amazing work ever, but I find it interesting for the purposes of knowing European history at the time of its writing.