Update regarding the ability to edit profiles. I for one would love to watch the GB regulars fall the fuck apart if the forum disappears and they realize they have no fucking life. 
"The simple fact is that the forum is the least important part of this website. Every other part of it is more important, and is undergoing a massive overhaul. The forum doesn't even generate a blip on the traffic coming to the website.
The ability to edit profiles was indeed disabled on purpose, because one of the major infrastructure changes caused a conflict in the linking between the forum profile and the website profile. It was causing a cascade of problems when anyone edited their profile from the forum. This was brought up at the time, though I haven't been able to dig back up the post.
Granted, it could have been more elegantly handled with an explanatory page, rather than redirecting to the login, but...
It's not a simple fix, or it would have already been done. Manu said as much after looking into the problem at the time. It's a time sink.
This version of the forum software is also slated to be replaced. So, in addition to being the least important part of the website, it is also destined for the scrap heap. Fixing the problems with software that is going straight in the garbage as soon as the important parts of the site have been updated is beyond a waste of time. The time is better spent updating the parts of the website that most of the visitors care about. The bridge between the forum and the website can be build from the ground up, in new, modern software, accounting for the new infrastructure from the get-go, rather than trying to find the problem in a mish-mash of code designed to work on infrastructure no longer in place.
Literotica is attempting to modernize a website that was running on a database twenty years old, with code that's been edited and tweaked umpteen times during that period. They're doing so with a skeleton crew, because this website is a labor of love, provided for free, with the bare minimum of advertisements, and no big adult ad agencies that are prone to malware injection.
Give them a chance to get the important work done, and think about how important a single feature of some outdated software in the least visited part of the website really is in light of that."
"The simple fact is that the forum is the least important part of this website. Every other part of it is more important, and is undergoing a massive overhaul. The forum doesn't even generate a blip on the traffic coming to the website.
The ability to edit profiles was indeed disabled on purpose, because one of the major infrastructure changes caused a conflict in the linking between the forum profile and the website profile. It was causing a cascade of problems when anyone edited their profile from the forum. This was brought up at the time, though I haven't been able to dig back up the post.
Granted, it could have been more elegantly handled with an explanatory page, rather than redirecting to the login, but...
It's not a simple fix, or it would have already been done. Manu said as much after looking into the problem at the time. It's a time sink.
This version of the forum software is also slated to be replaced. So, in addition to being the least important part of the website, it is also destined for the scrap heap. Fixing the problems with software that is going straight in the garbage as soon as the important parts of the site have been updated is beyond a waste of time. The time is better spent updating the parts of the website that most of the visitors care about. The bridge between the forum and the website can be build from the ground up, in new, modern software, accounting for the new infrastructure from the get-go, rather than trying to find the problem in a mish-mash of code designed to work on infrastructure no longer in place.
Literotica is attempting to modernize a website that was running on a database twenty years old, with code that's been edited and tweaked umpteen times during that period. They're doing so with a skeleton crew, because this website is a labor of love, provided for free, with the bare minimum of advertisements, and no big adult ad agencies that are prone to malware injection.
Give them a chance to get the important work done, and think about how important a single feature of some outdated software in the least visited part of the website really is in light of that."
