How's everybody?

[Kevin_theprogrammer]

What is the main issue with nuking the forum and upgrading to the latest version (other than losing all posts)? Make everyone who actually comes here re-register and start from scratch. Then nobody has to go in and worry about spam and other things - the new versions of PHPBB have CAPTCHA built-in to the code, among other stops.

And if everyone who administers the site is too lazy, I can volunteer :^_^:

That's the only way I see this forum getting back on its feet.

There are two problems:
1. The phpBB2 CAPTCHA is a total piece of shit. Spambots can go through that sucker like liquid through a strainer. 500 spammers got onto osFree's phpBB2 forums with the CAPTCHA on. I upgraded the forum, but it still uses the same piss poor captcha in the latest version, so it didn't stop it. It took that mod to stop the spammers from registering and another to delete all of them because otherwise I'd have to look up their information individually rather than just having a delete button, but it could have been better. For example, I could have had a check mark to mass delete, but of course that would have been to smart for the phpBB team to implement.
2. Losing all the posts loses the possibility new members could come to the community. People would rather be on a forum we previous activity than a dead one. We could upgrade from phpBB2 to phpBB3 and lose no posts.