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Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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Passwords should be hashed client-side anyway, so the real issue there is how to encode the password hash in a way that satisfies the legacy system. But this is usually plausible, e.g. by base64 or hex encoding the hash to avoid disallowed characters and then appending specific characters that satisfy the set of required characters.

Do you know of any systems that actually do this? It's the first I've heard of this technique.

It's a pointless technique as noted by others.

Along the same lines though is OPAQUE PAKE, where the server doesn't need to store a password hash, only a salt, making server compromise far less dangerous, it's quite elegant.

There's no implementations so far I believe.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/163

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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> Please don't do this. They didn't, they just chose off the shelf PHP forum software written by idiots that does this and a million other stupid things.

I couldn’t imagine releasing a forum for the hn community that wasn’t also a neat software project. Using phpbb seems like the antithesis of something this community would appreciate, other than perhaps for the practicality of choosing something common.

That was kinda the point of this whole thing though. This wasn't a software project for me, this was a community project. I have no interest in developing a forum, but I do have interest in participating in one.

From what I can tell so far, what we setup seems to be working fine. If we hit a wall, I'll search out the next most practical option.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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This site was borne of the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068138 (Specifically this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17071224 ) I spun up an instance of phpBB (trying to keep costs down) and customized a ThemeForest theme to make it not ugly. I'll post a thread today that lists all of my notes from the setup process of the site for anyone interested. I'm a huge fan of…

Nice, I'm in.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#105
Just a heads up, using an external password manager on Firefox for the login screen is broken. It seems that if the username or password field is selected and then Firefox is unfocused and refocused, the field is no longer selected. Works in Chromium.

See: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/16938

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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Excellent initiative. However, I wish you had adopted some more compact and minimalistic system like https://www.simplemachines.org/ (also FOSS). I think the compactness is a big reason of the success of Reddit and HN with the tech crowd. UX people be damned, we don't like wasted space.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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This site was borne of the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068138 (Specifically this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17071224 ) I spun up an instance of phpBB (trying to keep costs down) and customized a ThemeForest theme to make it not ugly. I'll post a thread today that lists all of my notes from the setup process of the site for anyone interested. I'm a huge fan of…

Nice, I'm in.

Welcome!

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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post #106

Excellent initiative. However, I wish you had adopted some more compact and minimalistic system like https://www.simplemachines.org/ (also FOSS). I think the compactness is a big reason of the success of Reddit and HN with the tech crowd. UX people be damned, we don't like wasted space.

Thanks for the feedback. I briefly looked at smf but it didn’t seem as well supported as phpbb was (though it did look nice). Any specific examples of wasted space you think I should address?

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#109

Just a heads up, using an external password manager on Firefox for the login screen is broken. It seems that if the username or password field is selected and then Firefox is unfocused and refocused, the field is no longer selected. Works in Chromium. See: https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/16938

Whoa, interesting. Thanks for submitting this, I’ll do my best to help solve this!

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

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Hmm, interesting. I'll take a look, thanks for letting me know. Just so I'm clear, this happened immediately after registering? Or did you do anything else that triggered this?

That is happening because you are running PHP 7.2. In that file $this->extra_headers is initialized as non-countable NULL. Basically phpBB needs to update their code base to support newer versions of PHP. A quick fix would be to change "var ... $extra_headers" at the top of the file to "protected $extra_headers = [];".

To follow up: I think I fixed this, but I don’t have a good way to test. So please let me know if there are other things to investigate
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