The Regs have a discord server:

https://discord.gg/7GSmFSghw

• Ensured that phpBB was up to date
• Re-wrote most of the backend code
  1. Worked on Security of the back-end
  2. Removed reliance on phpBB for security
  3. Kept some of the old theming
  4. Added Bootstrap style to site
• Updated PHP code and Security
  1. Removed the use of $_GET and $_POST
  2. URL / slugs restricted to safe characters
  3. Attempted to protect forms
     1. Admin forms use tokens/keys
     2. Delete/restore actions use link hashes
     3. Invalid form submissions are rejected
  4. Database safety
     1. Queries use $db->sql_escape()
     2. Insert/update data uses $db->sql_build_array()
     3. IDs are cast to integers
     4. Duplicate slug checks prevent conflicting article routes
  5. Output Escaping
     1. Admin output cleaned up
     2. Public article output uses escaping helpers
     3. Code blocks are escaped before display
     4. URLs/images are constrained and escaped
  6. Content Control
     1. Articles have is_active, so bad/old entries can be disabled instead of deleted.
     2. Images URLs are validated in admin as either valid URLs or local paths
• There is now Audit Logging on the site.

The Site has been around for 22 years now. It started when we lost the site and domain for darktideregulators.org so we quickly found a new site domain and new hosting.

That was still 22 years ago. Although the site isn't visited by many anymore I still try to keep it updated.

I have been working on a new design for the site, just need to figure it all out and then publish it.

• Domain: theregs.org
• Domain Age: 22 Years, 317 Days
• Domain Created Date: 5 Aug 2002
• Domain Updated Date: 29 Apr 2025
• Domain Expiry Date: 5 Aug 2026

As I work on the forums and everything I continue to change the site. I know its not visited much or at all but hey I figured I enjoy and keep learning if I work on it.

So I got around to upgrading the forums to the latest release of phpBB. In doing so the site and forums needed to be redone a bit.

I think I have it done now with many changes and some cool new things going on. However if you notice anything weird let me know.