To be honest, not many people in the sector actually saw the artifact, at least not up close. So even if it's not accurate, who knows.

As far as I know, folks on Freeport-9 will buy anything that grows. And, guess what, I just happen to know the location of the very station. It's located in a beautiful star system in the outer ring, where treasure and opportunity awaits.

I would love to continue to sharing my knowledge ... for a small fee of $10,000,000 credits, of course. You'll earn it back soon enough. Interested?

So... I've figured out how to do it:

1. Before login, you click the Forgot Password link and ask the website to send you a email
2. Click the link in the email the website has sent to you
3. The website will send you another email, containing a newly generated password of your account
4. Login with that new password, go to the Change Password page, and put the generated password into the "Current Password" box, and enter your own new password in the "New Password" and "Verify Password" box.

It worked for me, maybe it will work for the others.

I guess the root cause of this problem is somebody misused `strtolower` or `strtoupper`. My old password contains an uppercased letter, it probably got `strtolower`ed by the "Change Password" page and thus become mismatched with the real one.

On the second thought, maybe try something like Mastodon, it's like a social network like Twitter you can host on your own server.

Hello there,

So I just logged back and thought maybe I should btw change the password of my account after this long time.

However, the Change Password page, which is located at https://the-starport.net/modules/profile/changepass.php doesn't seems to recognize my old password and thus keep rejecting the new one.

I mean, I just re-logged in to verify that the password I used in the "Current Password" field is correct, so I don't think it was me who messed it up.

Could somebody check the code for a bit to see if there is anything fishy and buggy in there? And fix it while you at it? Please.

Thanks!

@HeIIoween

Maybe it's my bad English make you misunderstood my point ... It's always flickering so ....

There is no difference between IT-related and regular people, in fact, IT-related people is regular people too (I'm a human, what you are thinking there :-/ ) ...

I rather believe IT guy had higher UX requirement than others, because they use too many software. However ....


@FriendlyFire

I know that you want now.

Yes, I tried myBB. It's appears more function rich. But after I checked the code, I can't say it's a maintainable choice. So as phpBB. (It's procedure-oriented)

XenForo is not the good way, I rather pay for IPB or vBulletin.

I also tried the esoTalk, but now I think it's too light for this task. Vanilla forums has suck code style ...

Well, looks essentially I don't actually know what forum software is good, they all suck for me, just some light-weight applications less suck ...

I will try to make a donation when I finished my current project and got a new job.

Keep it up!

Well, you guys obviously knowing much better than me about the back of this web site.

On the other hand....

I used to run a small Chinese comunity long before, which share same topic with spacesimcentral.com. And it's larger than spacesimcentral.com in amount of post & replies. (But quality is low I have to say)

We don't have staffs at that time, only moderators who also contribute contents like MODs and Tips. But most contents is contributed by users.

I'm not saying the community is healthy, but it shows that web site run by user generated content is workable (Technically, this web site is mostly UGC'ed too). So you may no need that many staffs you expected.

Of course, it will be a quality issue but I think it could be resolved by appropriate community management. (You have to discover it yourself)

Even you need to post news and keep track updates by yourselfs, it's just cost few hours every week. (Writing news is not rock science, not in this topic)

And ..... well, Xoops sucks. Article is difficult to categorize and read, download is not easy to use, only thing that relatively useable is the forum...
Lot of good web application come out those years: Wordpress is good one and not just a blog, and Forum application like VanillaForums, esoTalk, Discourse (SEO may sucks), Flarum (SEO sucks), every each one is far better than PHPBB.
Consider to move to another application if you want to change direction of this website maybe?