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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Thanks... you probably don't know it but I was in the Hospital for a year, near death in fact at this time last year, they didn't think I was going to make it actually... one of the guys hacked some of my accounts to keep things running and they managed to collect some money to buy a vB license since I had just leased it not knowing if it would survive a year... luckily things were going fairly smooth when I was able to take back over earlier this year. I'm home now but still in bed unable to walk yet- getting physical therapy every day though. There was a 'split' with some active members defecting to webwheeling.com, but for the most part we're on good terms with people going back and forth... we're in talks now to sort of re-unite the forums with a shared forums mod. Otherwise not much has changed. Sorry I berated someone on coolscifi yesterday but he was asking for it.

Wooow...

Did he hack your forum account.

There's a afghani hacker dude that's been stalking me for two years now so I've been trying to make my site as secure as possible. After you got hacked did you step up your security?

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Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

OK I've made some recent changes and updates to the site:
www.juot.net

I've removed a lot of ads for guests except a single ad in the footer. After x amount of thread views there's a "Please register" message with an additional ad.

Listening to a number of my forums users (not the majority but a significant amount none the less) I launched two new custom styles called "JUOT Express" and "JUOT Express Dark" that have been gutted to provide only the basic forum functionality to be optimized for speed and slower connections- no avatars, no sigs, no post icons, no useless "rules" boxes, no custom icons for each forum like I have in the default theme and very few hooks... Just good old fashioned forum viewing.

Most interested in opinions on the new styles but as always all and any comments are welcome.

We have a forum called "the Network" which is shared with a couple of other off-topic forums. We have a custom made "Bad Deeds" mod that lets users exchange reputation points for "gameroom cash" and my "All Topic" mod in off-topic, however off-topic requires registration to view.

I think your site looks good dude. I'm impressed by your navbar the most though, odd as that sounds. When I went to your bbcode threads, I didn't see the bbcodes. Do I have to join to unlock them? I like your postbit section too btw

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Man I'd love to open up my site for review but I installed some mod on here that makes my forum looks weird as hell as a guest. I haven't figured out which mod I need to uninstall yet.