Acking

Acking, not to be confused with hacking, refers to the practice of using sketchy programming within PHP projects to achieve the desired result, albeit with questionable reliability and future-proofing.

esoBB contains a handful of prominent acks, including the spaghetti code that handles whether or not to include conversation titles as part of the slug. Since PHP file uploading can be risky, the "upload" controller employs functions which gauge metadata in order to combat malicious uploads, such as oversized avatars designed to take up additional disk space.

Even though acking is generally frowned upon, it can sometimes be necessary to aboose a function for a purpose other than intended, and this can be done without becoming problematic. Companies like Microsoft, on the other hand, use acking within languages like C Sharp to manipulate page load times so they can make webpages faster when needed, as dictated by employment status. Netflix was one of the first web applications to basically peg a thread and somehow make the whole browser unresponsive. Toolkits like Microsoft Silverlight and Flash, which were once much more prominent among browsers, were replaced by copious JavaScript and incessant API calls just the same, thereby preserving its buttfuckedness.

Some websites are so acked that the browser's page navigation buttons will not function as intended. This is a classic example of how a scripting language can be used to make a website more unusable than ever intended, a feat that may easily be accomplished by using a plethora of libraries for no good reason, or even by setting inconsistent security policies whereby the backend is unreachable.