The old Astaro.org was insecure??

@Ian, it never happened before was because of the mods. You know, the ones that worked for free over the weekends without community developer and other fancy titles beside their names and cleaned the spam as quickly as possible. Also as a "security company" trying to design forum software, sophos perhaps forgot not to let one person post twice a minute for thousands of posts? I took a few snips for entertainment. One user posted almost two thousand posts and the other one had over a thousand. Effectively DOSing (denial of service) the forum. 

Good thing astaro.org got taken down. We are all safe...

All that was needed to protect Astaro.org was a WAF. If the old legacy modules were problematic and held back the updating they could have created a new phpbb/bulletinboard and migrated the data therefore freeing themselves from the Astaro.org of old.

From what I understand, whether or not astaro.org boards were "insecure" or not, the end goal was to migrate that information and bring it here. Unfortunately for me, I cannot stand this board and do not come here near as often as I did on the old system. It's not just because things changed - far from it. It's frankly because of navigating this blunder is cumbersome for me, starting a new profile frankly sucked and there is so much data that hasn't been moved over yet to a place I don't want to visit anyways makes it more difficult.

From what I understand, whether or not astaro.org boards were "insecure" or not, the end goal was to migrate that information and bring it here. Unfortunately for me, I cannot stand this board and do not come here near as often as I did on the old system. It's not just because things changed - far from it. It's frankly because of navigating this blunder is cumbersome for me, starting a new profile frankly sucked and there is so much data that hasn't been moved over yet to a place I don't want to visit anyways makes it more difficult.