So, I recently took over as admin for an open source project called usercake. It's a simple User Management System meant to work as a launching platform for developers.

One of the things I wanted to do when I took over was launch our own forum. We didn't have one, and I want to start building a community. I launched a miniBB forum as a stop gap measure, but wanted to design my own.

It's now nearing completion -- but the I haven't managed to get enough people into the community yet to do strong beta testing. I was hoping some of you here might be willing to help. Basically, I'm hoping some of you will go to the forum and do your best to break it.

You can find it at http://www.usercake.com/beta/forum.php

Any help would be appreciated.

-Fooglmog
Guy with no clue.

Didn't take qz long... though I didn't think it would.

-Fooglmog
Guy with no clue.

testing testing :)

1, 2, 3.....

it won't let me post a new thread, despite the fact that it says it does

and it ate my unicode testing post

also your 30 seconds seems to be more like 120 seconds

either that or my time moves slower lol

Failed posts restart the 30 second time limit.

By the way, you should have turned the time limit down to 5 seconds for testing purposes. This is annoying.

Should throw an error:

http://www.usercake.com/...p;thread=52&page=1000

There's no second page link even in threads where there should be one.

The bugs forum says it has 3 posts but there is only one topic with 2 posts.

Hmmm... someone's managed to break something.

Things that were working have stopped.

I disabled the 30 second thing. Sorry about that.

The post count issue seems to be related to the fact that if you try to make a new thread nothing happens.

You try to enforce one account per email address but you allow email addresses of the following type:



That means that people can trivially create as many accounts as they want with one email address.

Right now you let the width of the "Last Poster" column float with the length of the username. That's probably a bad idea.

Page 0 and 1 go to the first page of a thread. Also:

http://www.usercake.com/...amp;thread=48&page=-1

Topics counter is wrong on the first page and no second page link appears on forums even when there should be one.

Have I mentioned recently how much I love you guys?

- In the threads, the pagination is working now. It may not be working on the boards (if you get to more than 20 posts) but I have the fix, so I can implement that tomorrow if I have to.
- You can now post new threads again.

- I'll add generating an error for pages which don't exist to my to-do list.
- The e-mails is a good point. Thanks.
- I hadn't realized long names broke my layout. Easy to fix though, but it can wait too since it doesn't impact functionality.
- The negative page number is an interesting error that I'd never even considered.

- The topics counter will continue to be wrong until I re-synch it due to other errors I had going on.

"Your post must have no fewer than 1 characters or greater than 25000"

I think you worded that incorrectly.

It's not just negative numbers:

http://www.usercake.com/...rd_id=3&page=FOOGLMOG

Posting a "\" in title threads adds extra characters.

You should really look into limiting the number of lines that you allow in posts. If I try to enter a post with more than 5k lines it tries to send a ton of information to your site. When it fails, it tries to send me back a version with a bunch of line breaks and stuff added. It crashes firefox.

If I try to post a thread with a title of "<b>test</b>" it posts "&lt;b&gt;test&lt;/b&gt;".

If a post fails, you replace the text the user entered with the translated version you store in the database. So that text can quickly grow without bound if the post keeps failing.

If I put an underscore in a topic title it appears below the underline and I can't click on it.

A link to page 2 in a thread shows up when the thread has 20 posts. You're off by one: http://www.usercake.com/...amp;thread=106&page=1

If I put "|" in a topic title it appears below the underline and I can't click on it.

You need spaces between the topic name and the board, otherwise you get weird looking stuff like this: http://www.usercake.com/...amp;thread=109&page=1