OWA Posted January 28, 2015 Report Posted January 28, 2015 Since launching the community we have been hearing several users voice their displeasure about how the user accounts, pms and forums from BHP have been retained. To rectify this, we have consequentially deleted all of the normal member accounts, deleted all of the old pm's associated with those accounts and also deleted the old forums archive (which date back to the pre-BHP days). The stats have been recounted, so that the post counts match up to the number of threads. If any users have any more concerns, please feel free to pm either myself, danpaul88, TeamWolf or WallyWood about it. [danpaul88 edit below] Your password safety IP.Board stores passwords in a hashed format using a salt to increase the entropy of the hash. In practice this means that it was effectively impossible for us to read your password from the data we had. This also applies to any new passwords. Regardless of that, we do strongly suggest people employ good password hygiene as a matter of course. This includes measures such as regularly changing your passwords, avoiding re-use of the same password across multiple places (especially anything sensitive such as bank accounts or email servers) and using a strong password which doesn't consist of common dictionary words or predictable sequences. Your private messages We have no interest in your private messages, these remained private for the duration and have been erased alongside your accounts. 4 Quote
Guest rackz Posted January 28, 2015 Report Posted January 28, 2015 i didnt had any problemms with it, it just confused me lol! but nice! thank you! 0 Quote
OWA Posted January 28, 2015 Author Report Posted January 28, 2015 i didnt had any problemms with it, it just confused me lol! but nice! thank you! '- That's no worries. We left your account and a select few others in-tact because you guys were posting over here without any issues. 0 Quote
Guest rackz Posted January 28, 2015 Report Posted January 28, 2015 it feels great and cleaned up! nomore confuseness now! 0 Quote
Voe Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 You just deleted 1700 of my official posts and another 2000 unofficial ones. I feel betrayed. 0 Quote
Nodlied Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 HA! Now I have more post than you. 1 Quote
danpaul88 Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 That'll motivate you to get the post count back up then lol 0 Quote
Lavama Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 I just don't understand how I have like 20 posts and I've only posted twice including this. Did the posts for TSR/AR carry over? 0 Quote
Nodlied Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 I believe that the AR and TSR blogs were carried over, yes. 0 Quote
drunkill Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Poor form, you should have consulted the memberbase or created a new forums systems instead of cloning. I say this as someone who hasn't been involved with APB/BHP/AR/Reborn for two or three years now but I do check in every couble of months. It should have been opt-in, not opt out and given I do know the admins here I can trust you have deleted passwords, PMs and other personal information, but if this were some other forums I'd been a member of for 11 years and suddenly everything was effectivly stolen without permission (seemingly, from what information I have gathered), I'd be kicking up a huge fuss. Not a good first impression, I'd have to say. Edited January 29, 2015 by drunkill 1 Quote
ChopBam Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 You just deleted 1700 of my official posts and another 2000 unofficial ones. I feel betrayed.Nothing compared to my 8000 missing posts! 0 Quote
BigJoe Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 *cough* *cough* on... oni-chan... my post count is s-so low... m-my strength is leaving me... fading quickly... 2 Quote
Wallywood Posted January 29, 2015 Report Posted January 29, 2015 Poor form, you should have consulted the memberbase or created a new forums systems instead of cloning. I say this as someone who hasn't been involved with APB/BHP/AR/Reborn for two or three years now but I do check in every couble of months. It should have been opt-in, not opt out and given I do know the admins here I can trust you have deleted passwords, PMs and other personal information, but if this were some other forums I'd been a member of for 11 years and suddenly everything was effectivly stolen without permission (seemingly, from what information I have gathered), I'd be kicking up a huge fuss. Not a good first impression, I'd have to say. I'm just hoping you did get the FULL story on this and not just the stuff floating around...But glad to see you around 0 Quote
NodGuy Posted February 11, 2015 Report Posted February 11, 2015 I wish we could opt to keep the accounts.. Anyway, try to find out how to join the mIRC server. 0 Quote
OWA Posted February 11, 2015 Author Report Posted February 11, 2015 I wish we could opt to keep the accounts.. Anyway, try to find out how to join the mIRC server. We could have kept the accounts, but I don't think BHP would have approved very much. FYI this is also the reason why a lot of the permissions on the launcher are broken currently. danpaul88 is currently working on adapting it to support multiple permissions sets. 0 Quote
Guest rackz Posted February 11, 2015 Report Posted February 11, 2015 lol the warning i got transfered from bhp to here too lol (the one for creating a topic without a name) 0 Quote
OWA Posted February 11, 2015 Author Report Posted February 11, 2015 lol the warning i got transfered from bhp to here too lol (the one for creating a topic without a name) Yeah IPB's warning system is pretty poorly implemented. Certain members kept their old accounts either because they were either active or part of the staff. 0 Quote
DarkAngel Posted February 13, 2015 Report Posted February 13, 2015 I am apparently not a normal member. Edit: Oh s***, I'm a VIP 1 Quote
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