Stop trying to justify your bullshit. You encourage people to, in your own words, "DoS the Simple Machines forum" on your Twitter account. It's not a top-secret thing, but you still encouraged a community of actively malicious people to DoS a website.
I feel the site's held by glue and tape at times. That Twitter "technical limitations" thing actually tells you if there are excess replies; however this garbage you're experiencing is random and caused by unreliability AKA you aren't deemed significant enough for such a feature.
Additionally, there's a slew of users unable to view their own Tweets in general.
>Badspot, are you trying to implement key authentication & ads into SMF 2.0.15? That would explain why it's taking so long to "setup"
There are almost 10 million posts, just restoring a backup takes a few hours. Then there's the upgrade script which takes another few hours, then you gotta copy over 6GB+ of attachments, etc. I've got it set up now but it requires a bunch of hacks just to make it usable and not retarded.
Just now, I accidentally took down the official SMF forum by clicking the topic sorting links too fast a couple of times. It's complete clown shoes.
It's all an elaborate setup by the folks at Brick Planet, I knew from day 1 they were just out for us. Seriously though, I hope the forums gets better and I hope the hacker gets what's coming for him.
Blockland forums receiving constant attacks sheds light that it's probably important in many aspects, idk just theory. Why the fuck does a hacker want to hack the forum? That's the one billion dollar question.