[LionHeartLow]

What's new with HF? What happened to reputation points, I had a metric fuckton but it seems they got reset, is that something new? Why are people selling awards? What's up with the new login policy where it warns you that you'll permanently close your account if you don't agree. What crazy HF drama have I missed lol 🤝

[Human]

We got a news bytes system which is really cool, the rep was revamped. There is a separate marketplace reputation because of the new on site contract systems. There s new groups called crews. Bytes are being sold because they added the feature to do so. Probably missed some stuff welcome back.,

[Almonds]

Welcome back, you have missed quite a bit!

[Cyber]

We got a news bytes system which is really cool, the rep was revamped. There is a separate marketplace reputation because of the new on site contract systems. There s new groups called crews. Bytes are being sold because they added the feature to do so. Probably missed some stuff welcome back.,

Pretty much sums it up. Welcome back bro and hope you stay. 🤝

[Guap]

I seen a thread in news and happenings saying nokia2mon2 was working for Saudi Arabia in order to gather information and hacking tools.

that's new

[LionHeartLow]

I seen a thread in news and happenings saying nokia2mon2 was working for Saudi Arabia in order to gather information and hacking tools.

that's new

dang! i think i remember him from back in the day. There's a few characters on here that went down for some shady stuff like that. I wonder how they got nokia, I'll have to look up that thread!

[Guap]

dang! i think i remember him from back in the day. There's a few characters on here that went down for some shady stuff like that. I wonder how they got nokia, I'll have to look up that thread!

i just tried to find it again but it got deleted.

here's the news article provided by vice https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/artic...cking-team

[myplatesarefat]

What's new with HF? What happened to reputation points, I had a metric fuckton but it seems they got reset, is that something new? Why are people selling awards? What's up with the new login policy where it warns you that you'll permanently close your account if you don't agree. What crazy HF drama have I missed lol  🤝

No idea but I come here when I feel like shit-posting

[Xerotic]

Seeing as your last post is 2016.... you have likely missed the most development HF has had in its history. Omniscient appointed me as an administrator and now I work for HF full time as a developer. New stuff is released all the time and Omni and I are working nearly every day.

Check out this thread that Vitani made that highlights on some of the bigger changes: [11/2018] HF FAQ || Explaining recent changes

Reputation was reset in June after the introduction of the Marketplace Suite & Contracts system. Check out the new Market CP to learn and navigate that area of HF.

Contracts are designed to help prevent scamming and it comes along with its own Business Rating (B-Rating) system. Reputation was never intended to be used as a metric of trust so to clear all the invalid reputation and market-style rep the decision was made to reset all reputation on site. This included negatives, neutrals, and positives. A few months after that we decided to rename the reputation system to even further distance it from the Marketplace because many members use to view "reputation" as "trust", hence the new name for it: "Popularity".

The Award Market just came out about a week ago along with a feature that allows you to rearrange your award order.

The new login policy is for GDPR compliance which was required as of May 2018. You will only see that page ONCE so now that you have accepted the agreement you will not be bothered with it again.

You should also have noticed the new theme. This theme was added to HF around September 1st, 2018 and it is mobile responsive, which none of HF's previous themes were. As a result, SEO ranking and user experience should be enhanced.

Back June we also added "Bytes" to HF. This is a points system that you can use for various activities onsite. You can earn them from posting or from members posting in your threads. You can also donate Bytes to other members by clicking the green circular plus sign next to their Byte value on posts or from their profile. We added a few Byte games for those who enjoy gambling. Check out the HF's Slot Machine and the Blackjack Table or even try out the Crypto Game where you can practice cryptocurrency trading using real market values. With the Crypto Game you use Bytes to "purchase" simulated crypto coin which you can sell back later for hopefully more Bytes than you put in. We have many plans for Bytes beyond what functionality already exists for them.

We also recently (about a month ago) released Crews. Crews allow members to start their own "crew" of members. There are different Crew tiers and each comes with different abilities. At this point the initial Crew release is the base of a much larger concept. The idea is for a lot of HF activity to involve Bytes and/or Crews. Please note that Crews should NOT be confused with privately owned groups. Crews do not have a private subforum, though the highest priced (Bytes that is) Crew Tier does allow a userbar. Check out the Crew CP to see the progress of the Crews project.

If you are a marketeer then you will be very happy to hear that the Paid Sticky system has been 100% automated. If the section you wish to purchase a sticky for is booked full you even have the ability to add your thread to the queue so that it will be automatically stickied the instant a spot is open.

A lot more has changed and Vitani's thread does a great job explaining it but it is hard to really pass on all of the smaller details that have been adjusted as well. Consider that I have been working full time for HF since March releasing code at a rapid pace. For every large feature release that members see I am likely doing at least three times as much work behind the scenes with stuff that members will never notice. Improving security tools, better moderation tools, SEO work, etc.

If you have any questions about specifics I would be glad to answer if I am able.  😉

[Human]

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Holy hell this should be a thread on its own.

[LionHeartLow]

Seeing as your last post is 2016.... you have likely missed the most development HF has had in its history. Omniscient appointed me as an administrator and now I work for HF full time as a developer. New stuff is released all the time and Omni and I are working nearly every day.

Check out this thread that Vitani made that highlights on some of the bigger changes: [11/2018] HF FAQ || Explaining recent changes

Reputation was reset in June after the introduction of the Marketplace Suite & Contracts system. Check out the new Market CP to learn and navigate that area of HF.

Contracts are designed to help prevent scamming and it comes along with its own Business Rating (B-Rating) system. Reputation was never intended to be used as a metric of trust so to clear all the invalid reputation and market-style rep the decision was made to reset all reputation on site. This included negatives, neutrals, and positives. A few months after that we decided to rename the reputation system to even further distance it from the Marketplace because many members use to view "reputation" as "trust", hence the new name for it: "Popularity".

The Award Market just came out about a week ago along with a feature that allows you to rearrange your award order.

The new login policy is for GDPR compliance which was required as of May 2018. You will only see that page ONCE so now that you have accepted the agreement you will not be bothered with it again.

You should also have noticed the new theme. This theme was added to HF around September 1st, 2018 and it is mobile responsive, which none of HF's previous themes were. As a result, SEO ranking and user experience should be enhanced.

Back June we also added "Bytes" to HF. This is a points system that you can use for various activities onsite. You can earn them from posting or from members posting in your threads. You can also donate Bytes to other members by clicking the green circular plus sign next to their Byte value on posts or from their profile. We added a few Byte games for those who enjoy gambling. Check out the HF's Slot Machine and the Blackjack Table or even try out the Crypto Game where you can practice cryptocurrency trading using real market values. With the Crypto Game you use Bytes to "purchase" simulated crypto coin which you can sell back later for hopefully more Bytes than you put in. We have many plans for Bytes beyond what functionality already exists for them.

We also recently (about a month ago) released Crews. Crews allow members to start their own "crew" of members. There are different Crew tiers and each comes with different abilities. At this point the initial Crew release is the base of a much larger concept. The idea is for a lot of HF activity to involve Bytes and/or Crews. Please note that Crews should NOT be confused with privately owned groups. Crews do not have a private subforum, though the highest priced (Bytes that is) Crew Tier does allow a userbar. Check out the Crew CP to see the progress of the Crews project.

If you are a marketeer then you will be very happy to hear that the Paid Sticky system has been 100% automated. If the section you wish to purchase a sticky for is booked full you even have the ability to add your thread to the queue so that it will be automatically stickied the instant a spot is open.

A lot more has changed and Vitani's thread does a great job explaining it but it is hard to really pass on all of the smaller details that have been adjusted as well. Consider that I have been working full time for HF since March releasing code at a rapid pace. For every large feature release that members see I am likely doing at least three times as much work behind the scenes with stuff that members will never notice. Improving security tools, better moderation tools, SEO work, etc.

If you have any questions about specifics I would be glad to answer if I am able.  😉

Thank you so much Xerotic! I'm really impressed with the new look of HF, and look forward to exploring the new features! This was really cool of you to take the time to inform me and others about the new features of HF. I think it's a great thing you did with the HF marketplace reputation, too many times in the past I'd watch members with 500+ reputation points go and pull a horrible scam and get away with it simply because they had the "trust" to do it with. I'll have to look into the "contracts" feature, that really interests me, again, I got burned too many times by people saying "you go first" on a transaction and then they'd permanently go offline haha. The crews thing is a cool spin on groups, I hope it still has the same "elite" feel of groups, I remember trying so hard to get into some of the big hitting groups simply because they were so mysterious and everyone in them was getting rich haha. I'm sure you're doing a great job, keep up the good work improving HF!

[Ha Haaa]

Heaps of shit changed man. I took a few months break from HF and also came back with all this new confusing shit