Changing your DPF password would definitely be a good idea, as well as enabling two-factor authentication either with a text message or setting up google authenticator or other authenticator app.Hmm, Anything goes section is missing all of 2019, 2020 and 2021 posts.but glad to see that the disney emoji's survivedOff to look at the rest of the forum.
PS - what is reaction score and points about?
PPS - thrilled all my pm's survived
UPS - may i assume we all need to change our passwords after the hack?
Maybe an idea would be, if a moderator is inactive for a certain amount of time, remove mod access temporarily until they come back? This way if an old mod account is compromised, the person can't do much with it. Since inactive accounts are more prone to this. I think this was a system set in place for a forum I used to have mod side access too (though wasn't technically a mod, was a press team. It's been quite a few years).A lot of the modifications from the previous version will need to be restored or replaced with newer versions, and some aren’t available. I’ll need to take a look at what we had, and worst case, when user feedback comes back, I can try to manually pore through any old backups from our host to see if I can retrieve the feedback data, or — if you remember your feedback score, I should be able to manually change it (honor system!)
and yes — very curious that they only seemed to delete posts randomly. My guess is it was a kid who found an exploit/vulnerability for the version of forum software (or perhaps in one of the forum modifications/add-ons) we were previously running, and just went through randomly deleting stuff manually.
the person attempted to hold the forum hostage for a $1000 ransom and basically had access to some inactive moderator accounts, but it doesn’t seem they had much more access than that.
I mention “manually” because it seems they had access to the accounts for at least 4-6 hours before our smod/admin @starry_solo or @dancecats banned all the other mod accounts, and may have given up on trying to cause more damage when there was no response from the mods/admins in their “ransom post” in the private Moderators forum.
A lot of the modifications from the previous version will need to be restored or replaced with newer versions, and some aren’t available. I’ll need to take a look at what we had, and worst case, when user feedback comes back, I can try to manually pore through any old backups from our host to see if I can retrieve the feedback data, or — if you remember your feedback score, I should be able to manually change it (honor system!)
and yes — very curious that they only seemed to delete posts randomly. My guess is it was a kid who found an exploit/vulnerability for the version of forum software (or perhaps in one of the forum modifications/add-ons) we were previously running, and just went through randomly deleting stuff manually.
the person attempted to hold the forum hostage for a $1000 ransom and basically had access to some inactive moderator accounts, but it doesn’t seem they had much more access than that.
I mention “manually” because it seems they had access to the accounts for at least 4-6 hours before our smod/admin @starry_solo or @dancecats banned all the other mod accounts, and may have given up on trying to cause more damage when there was no response from the mods/admins in their “ransom post” in the private Moderators forum.
Hi Noone!Hmm, Anything goes section is missing all of 2019, 2020 and 2021 posts.but glad to see that the disney emoji's survivedOff to look at the rest of the forum.
PS - what is reaction score and points about?
PPS - thrilled all my pm's survived
UPS - may i assume we all need to change our passwords after the hack?
The biggest change I’m working on right now is how the marketplace works — they’re currently “closed” for new threads because the “DPF Marketplace” tab at the top will be the new place to look for listings — when an item is listed in the “new” marketplace, a thread will automatically be created in the old marketplace forums for discussion.Has anyone tried to create a thread in the For Trade or For Se section in the Marketplace? It says I don’t have privileges. I wanted to play around with it and couldn’t.
Awesome — and yes; as the forum grows and (hopefully) comes back to life, we will definitely need more active moderators to keep things running smoothly, as many have either stopped visiting/logging in, or stopped tradingThanks for sharing! The forum I'm an Admin on has some rather inactive Mods, and I am going to share this so that maybe we can remove Mod access when a Mod doesn't sign in for a month or something, so that this could be helped if something like this happened on ours! I've been working on some Mod How Tos, a Mod beginner guide and listing off basic Mod duties, etc. . . . so this will be a good thing to add in to discussions! Really appreciate your sharing the info!
Just curious, will auctions still be a thing? Those are one of our favorite things to do.The biggest change I’m working on right now is how the marketplace works — they’re currently “closed” for new threads because the “DPF Marketplace” tab at the top will be the new place to look for listings — when an item is listed in the “new” marketplace, a thread will automatically be created in the old marketplace forums for discussion.
The new marketplace should be easier and more visually appealing when browsing for trades/items. If anyone is so inclined, try making a test listing or two in the new marketplace — please add “TEST” to the item so that I can go through and delete the items and listings after we’ve worked out all the kinks.
appreciate everyone’s patience and support through this! we’ve already received some very generous donations from James and Nancy (I’m not familiar with their screen names here) and these will go toward hosting fees and any forum add-ons/modifications that require payment.
Thank you again!
Yes absolutely— i assume you have contact with them? I can reset their password/send them a reset password email once I’ve unlocked itSoraPandora’s account is still locked (because the hackers used her account).
Could one of the moderators unlock it?
Yes, I should be able to open up just that forum for new threads — the other for sale/trade/wanted forums however, will still remain locked down and have auto-created threads when people list their items through the new marketplace.Just curious, will auctions still be a thing? Those are one of our favorite things to do.
Noted! I will probably have to re-install/reconfigure Tapatalk support for the forum.Hello,
Tapatalk is not working with DPF. I tried logging out out and then back in and I was told to contact Admin.
Thank you for everything!
Noted, and added to the list of things to check on . Should be a simple fix.Also FYI,
I was unable to cut and paste or paste a url to load a photo.
That’s a great ideaPerhaps there's a way to send out a mass mailing announcing the fact that the forum is back up and running, and explaining all the above to encourage everyone to come back and get posting.
Since I haven’t been around — has someone started a DPF Discord? I think I saw some plugins/addons that support discord integration with the forum.*Chat is missing but with the advent of groupme/discord not necessarily needed to cut down on forum costs.
Will you be able to reply to threads once they are created and appear in there?Yes, I should be able to open up just that forum for new threads — the other for sale/trade/wanted forums however, will still remain locked down and have auto-created threads when people list their items through the new marketplace.
The biggest change I’m working on right now is how the marketplace works — they’re currently “closed” for new threads because the “DPF Marketplace” tab at the top will be the new place to look for listings — when an item is listed in the “new” marketplace, a thread will automatically be created in the old marketplace forums for discussion.
The new marketplace should be easier and more visually appealing when browsing for trades/items. If anyone is so inclined, try making a test listing or two in the new marketplace — please add “TEST” to the item so that I can go through and delete the items and listings after we’ve worked out all the kinks.
appreciate everyone’s patience and support through this! we’ve already received some very generous donations from James and Nancy (I’m not familiar with their screen names here) and these will go toward hosting fees and any forum add-ons/modifications that require payment.
Thank you again!
What about games? They appear to be under marketplace as well. I need my games.Yes, I should be able to open up just that forum for new threads — the other for sale/trade/wanted forums however, will still remain locked down and have auto-created threads when people list their items through the new marketplace.
Yes, it was started by @hiddenjumprope . Here is a link to a link...Since I haven’t been around — has someone started a DPF Discord? I think I saw some plugins/addons that support discord integration with the forum.
Oh that's cool! I created the discord (someone beat me to the link) so definitely let me know what I can do/what you need.Since I haven’t been around — has someone started a DPF Discord? I think I saw some plugins/addons that support discord integration with the forum.
After experimenting, you have to choose +Quote on the message(s) you want to quote, but then you have to click on the "Insert quotes" box as well to actually include the quoted message.Hmm, i just tried to reply to a post by clicking quote and it didn't show up as a quote in the reply box like it used to. So i'm not sure how that works now.
At any rate i was trying to say Hi back to you mominator
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?