Project Reality Forums

As we reported before, we suffered a breach of the webserver at the beginning of November. As a result of that the attacker could have accessed the forum database.

Since we had to disable the forums anyways while migrating and hardening our systems, we decided to use this as an opportunity to migrate to a new, more modern and free open source forum software. While this was a monumental task given that age and size of our forums, this will make it easier for us to maintain and secure them in the future. The migration preserved all the relevant data of users, user-groups, threads and posts. You will find everything where you left it and we tried to make it look as close to the old forum as possible.
However, some things were not possible to migrate and might require your attention:

• No user avatar could be migrated.
• For some users signature pictures will be missing
• The new forum offers some entirely new user preferences that you might want to customize.
• All passwords have been invalidated and will have to be reset using the Forgot password function.

With the new forum also comes a new way to link to topics and posts. We set up a redirect to have as many links pointing to old posts automatically redirect to the new forum, but for some links this might not work. Please notify us of any broken link to old posts that is used in this forum or our Discord and other social media sites.

We picked a similar default theme and have started to customize it to get a similar feeling to the old forum. We will keep working on this to improve your experience and are open for user feedback as well as contributions. You can find the public project for the forum style here: https://gitlab.com/realitymod/public/forum-style

We once again apologize for the inconvenience of this downtime and hope you all will enjoy the new forums together with us!

Good job, sounds like a massive undertaking.

peak of pr

Very good work! Thank you for continuing to work for the community! Always grateful

The color of retired PR developer is hard to read. The rest looks perfect

A respectable effort, once again, all together. o7

So what exactly happened? Some sort of hack?

I had to recreate my account because I couldn't remember my old password, that's sad

Had to reset my password

Great to see the new forum interface!

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pachwove wrote: 2024-12-03 07:46 I had to recreate my account because I couldn't remember my old password, that's sad

Hey man I go through accounts like toilet paper. I never remember my usernames or passwords either. I just let google remember for me.

Great to see forum back! Hope old look will be back soon too.

It looks weird seeing forum changed after so many years, but I'm glad everything turned alright

nice job

well done!