New Award: Octoberfest 2022
Octoberfest 2022 is a new award goal for making 500 posts. You can still earn this award if you have the one from last year!
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New Award: Pint of Ale
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New Deal Dispute Policy
Effective October 13th 2022, Omniscient will be reviewing all new Deal Disputes and taking the appropriate action towards them.
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New Marketplace Policy
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All Staff and Mentors have been removed
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Testimonial Section has been closed
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New Pricing on Crew Tiers
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Cartels from 1,000,000 -> 600,000
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Site Statistics

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• Threads: 5,258,955 (+0.3% - +15,646)
  
• Members: 6,221,742 (+0.06% - +3,753)
  

Average

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• Daily Threads: 1,104.02 (-0.58% - -6.44)
  
• Daily New Members: 933.17 (-0.34% - -3.22)
  
• Posts Per Member: 11.72 (-0.26% - -0.03)
  
• Replies Per Thread: 1.18 (-0.84% - -0.01)
  

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Last Week's Bans

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• Vacation Bans: 0
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• Combined Bans: 4
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• Hack
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  • Posts: 8,045,040 (+0.12% - +9,818)
    

• Life
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• Tech
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  • Posts: 1,825,540 (+0.05% - +846)
    

• Code
  • Threads: 227,155 (+0.03% - +67)
    
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• Game
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  • Posts: 825,102 (+0.02% - +185)
    

• Groups
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• Web
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• GFX
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• Market
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  • Posts: 11,064,991 (+0.08% - +9,242)
    

• Money
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• Equilibrium
             
  • 45 Members (+1)
    
• Money Makers
             
  • 10 Members (-12)
    
• Refactor
             
  • 18 Members (~)
    
• Revenge
             
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• Sociopaths
             
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• Legends
             
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• Pink LSZ
             
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• Eden
             
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• Blacklisted
             
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• Lions League
             
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• COINED
             
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• Infamous
             
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• The Brotherhood
             
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Groups For Sale

• Olympians - $5,000
  
• The Marketers - $10,000
  

Leadership Changes

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Group Open Recruitments

• COINED
  
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• HF Wiki Team
  
• Revenge
  
• The Marketers
  
• Warriors
  
• W4TCHL1ST
  
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Group Buy-Ins

• Money Masters
  
• Revenge
  

Group Information Threads

• COINED
  
• Drip
  
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Group Changes

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Crews for Sale

• Clownians - $425
  
• Crypto Club - $500
  
• Prevail Cartel - $1,000
  

Crew Open Recruitments

• Poison
  
• Sponsor
  
• Vibe
  

Crew Changes

• Animates has been sold to Pikachu and rebranded to The Coven
  
• Sponsor has been rebranded to Cult
  

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User News

• . DemonAsylum reached 3,000 posts
  
• . ThinWhiteDuke reached 1,000 posts
  
• . Zher0 reached 3,000 posts
  
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• . VNT reached 1,000 popularity
  
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Bans

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• . 7777777 was banned for one month by Omniscient for "FUCK YOU", returning 10-27-2022
  
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Awards

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• . [mention=3865317] received the GFX Guru award with the reason "Thanks for holiday logos."
  
• . MavenGradle received the Medal of Honor award with the reason "You've proven your worth in the Hack Game."
  
• . Cap received the Militant award with the reason "Throw that grenade!"
  
• . Bullup received the Award Whore award with the reason "Most don't know you like I do."
  

Announcements

• Member of the month ended - Omniscient
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Member Feedback & Testimonials

• Beau - 10 Year Testimonial - [mention=1161771]
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Informational Threads

• Wanted HF Holiday Logo's - Omniscient
  Omni is currently looking for some talented graphic designers to create holiday themed logos for the site. Think you've got what it takes?
  
• How to Install Userscripts on iOS (Safari) - NO JAILBREAK REQUIRED - [mention=1306528]
  Yet another informational userscript thread by our very own xadamxk! We love your work, keep those userscripts coming!
  

Entertaining Threads

• Serial Scammer Blunt and BK Randy - Omniscient
  Omni rek'd these two serial scammers. Serves them right.
  
• Congratulations to Deany for posting the 20,000th HF Lottery! (He did it AGAIN) - Cooligan
  Deany did it for the 10,000th lottery, and he did it again for the 20,000th!
  

Contests & Giveaways

• The Coven's Halloween Party (Contests & Giveaways | $100+ | Multi-Entries/Winners) - Pikachu
  Pikachu is hosting The Coven's Halloween Party which consists of contests and giveaways with multiple entries, winners and over $100 worth in prizes!
  
• $25 BTC Giveaway or Account Upgrade | Ends October 31st | Multiple Entries - Komodo
  Komodo is hosting a $25 BTC giveaway, ends on Halloween so be quick to grab an entry or two!
  
• [$50 Contest] Easy to enter | Multiple Entries | 11/6/2022 - Semmenial
  A $50 contest is being held and ends November 6th, multiple entries are allowed!
  

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My Hero Academia Anime's 6th Season to Air for Half a Year
The sixth season of the hit anime "My Hero Academia," just like the past four seasons, will be a two-cour anime, meaning that the anime will air episodes for two consecutive seasons (Ex: Summer 2022 and Fall 2022.) The sixth season will adapt the "Paranormal Liberation War" arc and the first episode will premiere on Oct. 1. Below you can watch a short teaser.
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My Dress-Up Darling S2 Announced
Fans itching for another season of "My Dress-Up Darling" will be happy to find out that a second season was confirmed recently. "kisekoi_anime" the official Twitter account for the anime, tweeted out "Love (cosplay) changes. Both in appearance and in mind." with a link teasing the new season on YouTube. For easier access, feel free to check the video below!

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(Oct 21, 2022 01:23 PM)Aeowulf Wrote:  Thank you for all the work you've done Hydra! Sad to see this will be the last official news release.

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Meet XGEN (Click to View)

(Oct 21, 2022 06:04 PM)Hydra Wrote:  Well... can't say I was surprised but also wasn't expecting it at this time. We survived several near-deletions over the years but this one seems to be permanent.

I'd like to thank everyone who volunteered their time and efforts to curating our editions. Everyone who read our editions, helped with Weekly Reports and everything between. Everyone's support with Writ3rs and HF News is what kept the legacy going for all these years.

Hack Forums News Team dates back to 2010. That's 12 years of dedication from the community and the longest community project we've had. We evolved from basic colored text with little formatting to subtle color coded section banners and formatting. Introduced more and more sections over the years: interviews, group news, site statistics. Expanded further by adding another two posts containing gaming, tech, world, science, comics, battlestations and more. On and off we hosted podcasts and for a short period was doing well.

I've been the leader of Writ3rs/HF News Team since March 2015. Throughout the time, we had our ups and downs, attempted takeovers and shitty leadership on my part. Endured through it all, we continued to curate editions with what we had. Honestly, the leader of Writ3rs never meant much to the production of the editions. It was the actual Writ3rs who put in the hard work. All I did was copy/paste sections into a single thread and add/kick members. Introduced author names with hyperlinks to give more exposure (I'll admit, I hated it when people thanked me, go thank the Writ3rs!). I wanted to make my team's work experience easier and improve "quality of life". We started with userscripts and Google Sheets/Forms, then evolved to an entire website platform, XGEN. My entire purpose was to provide to the team so they can continue their work for the community. Let's take a look at the secret sauces...

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Still under heavy and active development, XGEN was brought to life January 2021. I wanted to provide the proper tools for the team to be able to curate their sections efficiently with all the possible resources at their disposal. Features consisted of integrated and dynamic templates, BB Editor, HF API to archive submissions to our subforum, award log, ban log, and user stat log. I was working on implementing a notifications and warning system along with a feature to proofread and collaborate on sections.

That's been the evolution of HF News and Writ3rs in the last seven years and it's been fuckin' real to say the least. Met some great people and met some complete assholes. Have had day ones who kept the grind for years. Have had members who just started but put in so much effort to get quality editions out. Really thankful to everyone's help with this. Even those who were a Writ3r for a short period of time; like I always told the team, life comes first.

With that said, not sure what the future looks like but we'll make the best of it - count on that.

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With love,
Hydra