[3/28/12] - HF News

The edition you are currently reading is the 85th full edition. To read any older editions of HF News, please go here.

Minimum username length
Earlier this week Omniscient changed the minimum username length from three to four characters. He also deemed all 3 character usernames to be rare as members are unable to obtain them now. To see Omniscient's tweet about this update click the following link: http://goo.gl/O5G3o

[3/21/12] - HF News

The edition you are currently reading is the 84th full edition. To read any older editions of HF News, please go here.

I understand that this was a fairly short edition. There wasn't a large amount of news this week, and we just had to make do with what we had.

SoundCloud Embed
For all the music fanatics on HackForums Omniscient has just embed SoundCloud for a much easier experience while listening to music on HackForums. Adding a SoundCloud track into your post or thread is extremely easy, just add the [sοundcloud] and [/sοundcloud] bb tags before and after your track url. To view Omniscient's announcement thread click the following link: http://goo.gl/INZJP

HackForums pays taxes

[3/14/12] - HF News

The edition you are currently reading is the 83rd full edition. To read any older editions of HF News, please go here.

Prestige
A mysterious new feature called "Prestige" has been added to HackForums. Prestige is a combination of post count, repuatation, number of awards, and online time. Although there is no official use for this feature yet, Omniscient has stated that it may be later used as a requirement for certain section, similar to how you must have positive rep to enter the marketplace. To view the announcement thread for this new feature click the following link: http://goo.gl/DwkTF

Ban on discussion of fake items

[3/7/12] - HF News

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New group
The new and very secretive group Illuminati has recently been opened under the leadership of BELLAGIO. The group seems to be based on monetizing, and other money making methods. At the moment the group is strictly invite only and there has been no information suggesting that they will ever be opening recruitment. To view Omniscient's tweet announcing the new group click the following link: goo.gl/h9wlB

[2/29/12] - HF News

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New group
Earlier this week there was a thread posted by BELLAGIO in the graphic requests section asking members to make a userbar for a new group. In the thread title it stated that the group was paid for, however the thread did not contain any information on the group and the thread is now junked. Whether or not any of this is true is unknown, for now all we can do is wait.

Datacenter issues
On Saturday the 25th, Omniscient tweeted that he was facing a few datacenter problems. However he said that they seemed to have been resolved and everything should be back to full functionality. To view Omniscient's tweet click the following link: http://goo.gl/UC8Lc

[12/7/11] - HF News

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A couple of notices:

• The webshow is up! Yes, it is short.

Junk Section Purged and Posts Recounted
Hack Forums has recently lost over five-hundred thousand posts in the emptying of the junked section. All of the member's post counts were also recounted, dropping nearly all active members’ post counts. This is a required activity and happens every once in a while. "These purges help keep the database trim and tight." As said by Omniscient. This purge has affected many members but also the current staff of HF. One of the staff members, Factor8, or more commonly known as ‘F8’ lost a massive total of 26,000 posts during the purge.

[12/21/11] - HF News

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[1/11/12] - HF News

The edition you are currently reading is the 75th full edition. To read any older editions of HF News, please go here.

Warning system makeover
Omniscient has remade the warning system to simplify the warnings and make them more understandable. The Low Quality Posting, Wrong Forum Posting, Cross Posting, and Off Topic warnings have been merged into the Posting etiquette warning which will be 20% with a duration of one month. A few warnings have been removed however there were no new rules added to HackForums.

[1/4/12] - HF News

The edition you are currently reading is the 74th full edition. To read any older editions of HF News, please go here.

Minor Changes
Omni has been doing some maintenance around HF, which resulted in HF being on and off throughout Monday. Also he decided to remove the ‘Limited’ group and all users that belonged to this group were moved into the ‘Closed’ group. Another small, but noticeable change was the new text when junking a thread, it now reads “Are you sure? Please be aware we consider the mass junking of your threads to be abuse of this feature. We ask that you selectively junk threads and only when you have a valid reason. Please respect that others have posts and that your thread might contain valuable content.” The reason behind this was to lower the rate of junk abuse, as Omni has been very strict about enforcing this rule.

[1/18/12] - HF News

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Removal of the Black Knights
The now unofficial group ‘Black Knights’ was recently dismantled and removed. In a sentence or two, Omniscient’s reason was that the group was poorly led, extremely small population wise and it was a free group in the first place. After the removal of the group, one of the former members decided to attempt to revive the group by recruiting new members as an unofficial group. The link to the recruitment thread can be found here: goo.gl/ABeZe

Great Milestone for HF
HackForums has recently passed the well-known forum

[1/25/12] - HF News

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New group
The new usergroup, Propitious is finally here. The final payment was made on the 25th by both of the leaders, iNviZ and TheHackersLove. At this time it is unknown when the recruitment will be open for the new group, however it was stated in their FAQ thread that the recruitment will be shortly after the opening of the group. To view the Propitious FAQ thread follow this link: goo.gl/1NBQq

Censored word
Yet another word, mega-upload (without the hyphen), was censored. The reason behind this is most likely due to the fact that the file sharing website was shut down and the owner was arrested and could be facing an extensive time of 20 years in jail. Like HackForums, many other websites have been making changes

[2/22/12] - HF News

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New section
Omniscient recently added a new subforum in the Premium Sellers Section called 'Server stress testing'. At this moment the section is closed and members are unable to create news threads. Omniscient has yet to provide a reason behind adding this section, however it will help organize the section a bit more. To view this new subforum click the following link: http://goo.gl/WMbyU

Theme problems
Recently many members have noticed that there were several issues with the theme at HackForums. According to Omniscient the problem was caused by the CDN for the forum theme no longer working. At this point it seems that all errors have been fixed and everything is running smoothly. To view Omniscient's tweet about the error click the following link: http://goo.gl/XCfG2