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foultzboyz · Post by **foultzboyz** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:56 pm

One disadvantage of Eve, and Ubisoft never thought the phpbb forum be defaced...

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:39 pm

I don't think they were too bothered about it, as they knew they had Groupee forums ready and waiting. The forum could easily have been restored if they had bothered to back up the database.

Post by **Hunchman801** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:36 pm

But they did not care, all of us know it ^^

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:01 pm

Perhaps this should be brought up!

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:44 am

Actually, the phpBB forum was a bit of a mistake from Ryosan. Since the phpBB forum was created, the web people at Ubi always wanted to move the forum to their Groupee server. I remember that there was a Rayman forum at the English Ubisoft forums in 2003, but it was unused because moving a phpBB forum connected with the Lums Quest to their Groupee server wasn't so easy to do and they didn't wanted to make the community members mad. And then, the forum was hacked (on an easy way), and then Ubi knew that this was the right time to move the forum. They had a database backup, whice they used on the French Ubi forums. That didn't worked out well, so on MY request, they didn't used the backup on the new English RaymanZone forums.

Post by **Hunchman801** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:19 pm

Their database backup was very old

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:20 pm

I don't see why they are using Groupee anyway. phpBB is almost as secure, and anyway, Groupee is ugly (no offence).

Post by **Hunchman801** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:16 pm

They have reasons that reason cannot know.

neo · Post by **neo** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:59 pm

I think they are just being stupid.

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:47 pm

They are not stupid. They let their community managed by Groupee because they, and many other huge companies, didn't want to make time and money to fix security holes and update software. I think you already know, but the Eve system Ubi is using is remotely hosted and only Groupee has the access to the files and Ubisoft's private Groupee server. If the RaymanZone was always a Groupee forum, the hack didn't happen. But I know phpBB is better, but I also know that Groupee is soon going to release a version 2 of the system..

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:39 pm

I think the admins should use a phpBB forum using Yabbers for example and let a moderator manage it.

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:18 am

Yabbers is using the cheap and overused phpBB mod called MultiForums. With it, you can create more forums out of one phpBB instalation. Thus it means that every forum is on the same set of phpBB files but everyone has their own database tables for it. You can get much better free remotely hosted boards. Better try ezBoard or InvisionFree for great forum hosting. But still, the best way to host a board is to buy some advanced webspace and host a system like phpBB, Invision, or vBulletin.

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:40 pm

Well, Yabbers was just an example. I see what you're saying.

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:44 pm

I knew what you meant. Remotely hosted or hosted by Ubisoft, phpBB is better!

Xenon · Post by **Xenon** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:48 pm

Well, I'm glad some RZer agrees with that!

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:21 pm

Almost all RaymanZoners prefer phpBB. But Groupee is just good enough to make it a nice forum.

foultzboyz · Post by **foultzboyz** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:33 pm

Eve wouldn't be winner of a beauty contest, though it is very good with security.

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:43 pm

Yes, the Eve layout looks ugly but it has got some nice functions and it is very secure.

foultzboyz · Post by **foultzboyz** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:48 pm

From what I know, Eve isn't as expensive as other systems like vBulletin either...

Newray · Post by **Newray** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:02 pm

True. But still, the real sad mistake from the system is the layout from both the source code and the graphical table style.

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