I don't really want to go into detail here but the new software has quite a few security features. Most of which we currently have turned off but will turn on as required. We're hoping that this will be sufficient to ward off evil-doers in the future.

The lack of threading is annoying but we were willing to give that up in exchange for not having to perform constant monitoring and firefighting.

Open boards are like a magnet to spammers/idiots unfortunately.