The Hak5 forums got a major upgrade — now with social networking features!
Posted on May 16th, 2008 | by admin |
Ahh the Hak5 fourms, what a journey they’ve had. I can remember back in 2005 setting ‘em up in a single click (thanks Dreamhost) on phpBB. That was great for a while until those darn spammers decided they’d start hawking knockoff watches and timeshares on ‘em. Thankfully our crack team of mods, dubbed the Thunder Kitten Assault Force, have been laying down the spam and n00b smackdown since very early on.
With the second season we moved to the popular SMF platform for our forum needs and things were great. But of course I can’t leave anything alone can I? Thanks to Matt we’ve migrated to the IPB platform and I’ve been totally impressed with the whole system. Customizing the theme was a breeze. I wish I could say the same about editing the mediawiki themes but thats a rant for another time. Regardless I’m totally stoked that for the first time ever the entire Hak5 site has a unified theme!
So aside from all the prettyness that IPB has brought the coolest new feature is the way IPB does profiles. I mean sure the bio, interests, stats, and contact info is pretty standard but having comments, friends, and ratings just takes it to the next level. There is really something to be said about paying for quality forum software. Now I see why the guys over at binrev and purepwnage use IPB.