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Alright, so I definitely have something that's bugging me.
1. The logo is definitely something that needs to be cleaned up. Having the little stray dots around the logo does not look clean at all.
2. In the registration process, You do not have to force your potential new members to type in a ridiculously long password (8 characters min) AND require that it be Lower & upper case letters & have numbers in it. 6 is a good minimum and leave it up to the user to take care of their own passwords.
Think about this, you have a new user on your board, and they're already on the wall about joining when you ask them to create a new account. They get frustrated when they can't use their password that they use for everything else so they make a new one up and (best-case scenario) they join up anyway. Several days later, they come back to the forum and forgot their password.. Now if they don't leave by this point, they attempt to recover their password... see where I'm going with this?
Don't frustrate your new comers. Remedy this by:
To prevent bots - Email verification.
To prevent brute force password attempts - Maximum attempted logins allowed set to 5-10.
And keep in mind that in the case that your database is hacked: SMF 1.1.4 uses SHA-1 with a salt. Making it EXTREMELY hard to crack even to retrieve one password.
It's also a good idea to remove the version of the forum software you're using. The reason being if there is a vulnerability in that instance of SMF, people are going to perform a quick Google search for all boards that have SMF 1.1.4.
I'll join your board as soon as I can use a password I like to use.
Hope that helps!
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