VeToday has been offering news, polls, and much more for three years and many have enjoyed its informational benefits. Recently, some people with less brains than you can find in a gnat's navel removed that data and damaged the database.
Since 2002, we have been using a very useful system called PHP Nuke to assist our site visitors. This system is a GPL that offers many capacities for the portal visitor, which we think has helped the value community. Unfortunately, when a group uses executable code that is well known and shared, a few very small minds don't look to add to the knowledge of the shared code (the intent of shared code), but look to harm others by exploiting the code to make their smallness known. This recently happened with the PHP Nuke program, and as a result, the small minds were able to harm others. VeToday was one of the victims of that activity.
We at VeToday have looked hard at how this happened and how the value process community has historically made use of the capacities we gave in the past, related to the actual past use of the programs provided. Accordingly, while the PHP Nuke program gives a very large number of capacities, we at VeToday have determined that repairing the damage, reinstalling, and updating to provide the same capacities is not the way to go, as the number of people visiting versus those that actually share is very small. Accordingly, we now plan to continue the value process sharing effort through a more controlled environment that has code that is less shared. We know that this will reduce capacities, and reduce the ease of use of those capacities, but do not think that the added features are used enough to justify the effort to maintain them.
We are currently examining past documents to see what will be posted from the backups. You can help the process by resubmitting stories or otherwise adding the the knowledge using the new system provided.
