<![CDATA[Cruisers & Sailing Forums - Forum News & Announcements]]> http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/ Check here for official Cruisers Forum Updates and Announcements en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:19:04 GMT vBulletin 60 http://cdn.cruisersforum.com/forums/../ugala/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Cruisers & Sailing Forums - Forum News & Announcements]]> http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/ <![CDATA[We're back - unexpected forums outage]]> http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f58/were-back-unexpected-forums-outage-33238.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:27:41 GMT An exploit in our software was taken advantage of by some hackers who linked to a malicious site. It appears there was a little over 4 hours between... An exploit in our software was taken advantage of by some hackers who linked to a malicious site. It appears there was a little over 4 hours between the time it happened and the time we took the servers offline Thursday.

In an effort to minimize damage to the board we opted to shut everything down while we investigated the issue and formulated a game plan. Our team (server admins, programmers, and software vendors) coordinated and developed a plan to remove the malicious files and secure the servers. We believe that forum members should not have any system issues associated with this so long they didn't visit the malicious site AND install anything.

While the service interruption was unfortunate, it was important to us to make sure this issue was fully addressed before returning to business as usual. Protecting our community from this kind of intrusion is paramount and we'll post more info here as it becomes available. It's possible that we may need to continue tweak the forum setup and if so, we may have another service interruption.

We thank you for understanding :flowers: ]]> Janet H http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f58/were-back-unexpected-forums-outage-33238.html NEW: Comprehensive Ignore System http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f58/new-comprehensive-ignore-system-32289.html Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:39:30 GMT Based on your feedback we have developed a new more comprehensive ignore system. This new system allows you to ignore forums, threads, and threads... Based on your feedback we have developed a new more comprehensive ignore system. This new system allows you to ignore forums, threads, and threads started by people on your ignore list. It currently ignores these items when you are browsing the forums (you don't see threads or forums you have ignored), in search results, on New Post link or Today's Posts. It also skips them if you are using the next/previous thread links at the end of the threads. It will also keep these threads from showing up on the portal too.

To select a forum to hide you need to select the Forum Tools drop down and then select hide forum (see attachment). To select a thread to hide, use the Thread tools drop down and select hide thread (see attachment), to ignore threads started by people on your ignore list, go to the bottom left of the User CP where you will see a settings link and check off the box to ignore their threads.

Once you have ignored these forums and discussions you will not be able to see them in case you want to unignore them. So if you do want to unignore them there are tool in the bottom left of the UserCP to manage the items you have selected to ignore.

So now if you don't like the a certain forum, just hide it. Same goes with threads, if one is bugging you, just hide it. You can even hide threads based on tags. So if you want to ignore threads on a specific topic by ignoring tags. If you chose not to hear anymore about an ignore system feel free to hide this thread too!

As always, you can still choose to ignore a posts for a single member by adding that name to your ignore list in your user CP. Look for the option in the left side menu under Settings and Options. (just please don't practice on me)

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