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AlanT

Hi Everyone,

we've been planning a migration to a newer and more capable forum site for some time now, and were just a few weeks away from kicking off this process. Unfortunately, a recent vulnerability has appeared in the wild, affecting vBulletin, the software we were using for the astaro.org communities site. Astaro.org was not compromised from this vulnerability, but as a precaution, we did take the site down, to protect our users. 

The site used a number of add-ons, and some custom plugins, which would need weeks of effort to convert and replace, if we were to upgrade the site and apply fixes for this vulnerability. As we were planning to migrate by that time anyway, we've made the decision to cut immediately to the new communities site, which has been running successfully for other Sophos products. To that end, we've spun up two forums quickly, where astaro.org users can again congregate. unfortunately, it will still take some time to complete the migration, so user accounts, and previously posted content has not yet been migrated. This process will take a matter of weeks to complete. In the interim, we will create a static view of the astaro.org, so content there will still be accessible. This should be completed later today.

This certainly wasn't the introduction we wanted for our new communities site, but we are excited about the new platform, and its capabilities. Please be patient as we step through this transition as quickly as we can. There will be some pain, but we will try our best to minimize it for you. 

Thanks everyone for your patience, and understanding!

Alan Toews

Technical Product Manager, Network Security, Sophos



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  • For a very long time, we talked about transferring here all the gold we had in Astaro forum.

    The first thing Sophos should have done - BEFOR opening this new forum - was to transfer all of it (or at least the last years) to this new place, run it for a while as beta, listen to our comments, and only then closing the old forum.
    We all invest a lot of time on it!

    As I learn in my life – nothing is impossible – if you have the will.
    To be honest, I'm very skeptical about Sophos attention to do so.

    Things to add/change:
    1. Transfer all the users from the old forum.
    We all are going back for a long time.
    You can send a link, so we can keep our nickname, and just change the password.
    It is also important, so we can manage our posts and continue our thread.
    To be honest, I don’t feel like start all over again.

    2. If it isn't broken – don't fix it.
    Look at the way the old forum was organized.
    It was organized that way because that the way the users liked it.
    Much of the way it looked and organize was because of what we asked for.

    3. Like it's been said, Right now we have only "Copernicus Beta" (for me - hardly interesting yet), and "General".
    Really???
    That's all what was left from our previous glorious live forum of Astaro UTM?

    4. As it used to be, if someone wrote in thread we participated, we got a notification about it in our mail.

    5. In our profile, the red number should refer only to threads we participated (Right now – show all)

    5. Post should be ranked and appear accordingly.

    Bob:
    Does any of you have a backup of the database from the Astaro Forum?
    If security is such a big issue here (For god sake – It's only a Forum!), maybe I can do something about it.

    Ruckus:
    1. " so we steer the development of the community in the right direction"
    What is in sophos eyes "Right direction"?
    2. "I take all the comments (even bad ones) on board."
    Not sure what that mean, so please elaborate.
    Who in sophos decide about it?
    I really hope Sophos don’t' want a dead horse in here.

    A lot of us stayed here and follow Astaro/Sophs out of loyalty.
    Breaking this community, and I'm sure many of us will start looking around.
    After all Sophos aren’t the only kids in town.
    I don't think you meant it to come this way, but if Sophose would really listen to us from the beginning, People wouldn't feel totally deferent – and act deferent.
    Right or wrong, for now, the way it looks like people here are quite negative, frustrated and suspicions, so the burden of proof is on Sophose.

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  • For a very long time, we talked about transferring here all the gold we had in Astaro forum.

    The first thing Sophos should have done - BEFOR opening this new forum - was to transfer all of it (or at least the last years) to this new place, run it for a while as beta, listen to our comments, and only then closing the old forum.
    We all invest a lot of time on it!

    As I learn in my life – nothing is impossible – if you have the will.
    To be honest, I'm very skeptical about Sophos attention to do so.

    Things to add/change:
    1. Transfer all the users from the old forum.
    We all are going back for a long time.
    You can send a link, so we can keep our nickname, and just change the password.
    It is also important, so we can manage our posts and continue our thread.
    To be honest, I don’t feel like start all over again.

    2. If it isn't broken – don't fix it.
    Look at the way the old forum was organized.
    It was organized that way because that the way the users liked it.
    Much of the way it looked and organize was because of what we asked for.

    3. Like it's been said, Right now we have only "Copernicus Beta" (for me - hardly interesting yet), and "General".
    Really???
    That's all what was left from our previous glorious live forum of Astaro UTM?

    4. As it used to be, if someone wrote in thread we participated, we got a notification about it in our mail.

    5. In our profile, the red number should refer only to threads we participated (Right now – show all)

    5. Post should be ranked and appear accordingly.

    Bob:
    Does any of you have a backup of the database from the Astaro Forum?
    If security is such a big issue here (For god sake – It's only a Forum!), maybe I can do something about it.

    Ruckus:
    1. " so we steer the development of the community in the right direction"
    What is in sophos eyes "Right direction"?
    2. "I take all the comments (even bad ones) on board."
    Not sure what that mean, so please elaborate.
    Who in sophos decide about it?
    I really hope Sophos don’t' want a dead horse in here.

    A lot of us stayed here and follow Astaro/Sophs out of loyalty.
    Breaking this community, and I'm sure many of us will start looking around.
    After all Sophos aren’t the only kids in town.
    I don't think you meant it to come this way, but if Sophose would really listen to us from the beginning, People wouldn't feel totally deferent – and act deferent.
    Right or wrong, for now, the way it looks like people here are quite negative, frustrated and suspicions, so the burden of proof is on Sophose.

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