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Hackers and spammers too. Famously bad security (which somehow got PHP got blamed for, rather than specific software) principles.
by capableweb 4y ago
Hackers and spammers too. Famously bad security (which somehow got PHP got blamed for, rather than specific software) principles.
- amenghra 4y agoPHP got blamed for because it handed developers guns to shoot themselves in the foot with.
- cauthon 4y agoYeah, I’m not a web dev, but I assumed there were one or more technical limitations that led to its decline. I liked the interface, and the familiarity when seemingly every small-to-medium forum online was built on it. Plus they were all scrapable. There’s a ton of information that’s hard or impossible to find now that these conversations are typically siloed in slack or discord.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoI remember how many mods for phpBB were installed by literally doing find/replaces on the source files. Absolutely insane we had people out there doing that who didn't know any PHP!
- Zak 4y agoIn fairness, early PHP often made it much easier to do the wrong thing than the right thing while simultaneously targeting beginner web developers.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoWhile there are still forums using old software, and more importantly, not moderated, which are overrun by spam, surely this isn't the case for those that keep up ? (I'm also wondering how much field-specific registration questions help there, and what are the non-GAFAM alternatives to Captcha ?)