[Darth-Apple]

Well... look at their track record. They always come back, but they wait like three weeks before they decide to actually do anything.

[Gmdykfuiygh66476]

I found this too funny.
On the smfnew homepage, I clicked the "games" directory. The message I got? "Please leave : )"

looooooooooooooooool

[Darth-Apple]

Are you serious? Even with the smiley?

Haha wow... that's too funny.

[Acko]

I wonder what they're doing in there, being all secretive and all... makes you question their leadership  :

[Darth-Apple]

Probably files that they don't want you downloading.

[Acko]

Maybe they host their stash there?

[Darth-Apple]

Well they just made their entire FTP of their site basically public... just go to their homepage. They've failed. Simple

[Gmdykfuiygh66476]

"please leave"
don't worry, everyone who had a forum on your service already has

[Acko]

I'm not sure if the database.xxxx.php files are useful, but couldn't you just right click and 'save target as' if you lost your database?

[Darth-Apple]

It doesn't store the database. It probably either stores the information about how to connect to it, or has functions in code for dealing with it. I haven't looked at it of course, but that's the way SMF does it I think.

[Gmdykfuiygh66476]

ooooooooooooooh.... my inside email address and password thief is getting excited..

[Acko]

you have a grudge against an smfnew forum or something?

[Darth-Apple]

Yeah seriously...

My understanding, based on the explanations from previous downtime, is that they use a separate database for each forum. That's a positive at least. (It's really inefficient to do that, but hey, it means less account theft! )

@Aco: We all do. They are pretty messed up haha. Most of us have had some pretty sour experiences with them.

[Gmdykfuiygh66476]

lol, i'm not actually going to access these files. I was just joking

[Darth-Apple]

I won't either. It doesn't take a hacker to get into stuff in its current condition, but it's simply not the right thing to do, so I won't mess with any of it.

[Acko]

Well, if somebody does have a grudge, assuming those hold the databases, someone could REALLY mess up a site by getting the admin username and password (assuming it's not encrypted).

[Darth-Apple]

Passwords on SMF forums are always encrypted, so that won't be happening.

[simlink]

Meh, I just don't care about them. It's honestly getting to the point where it's funny to watch this train wreck unfold...