[Omniscient]

This is likely gonna be a lame attempt at listing the projects I'm currently attempting to work on.

Unfortunately the way I work is very chaotic. I wake up, I see what's in front of me and attempt to address it. Intent doesn't matter. If I wake up and HF experienced an attack, I have to go deal with that. If someone reports a bug, I might have to go deal with that. I'm always dealing with customer service too. Members asking questions about upgrades or advertising.

Anyways, getting way off-topic. This is the best list I can come up with for now. It will be dynamic and likely constantly change. Items will get worked on as time sees fit and not in any particular order either. These also don't include secret projects or backend work which members aren't aware of.

🔧 1. Bug Fixes & Minor Tweaks (Low Effort)

• Fix Convo New Messages and text box [DONE June 13, 2025]
  
• Fix Bug of empty profile visitor from deleted UID's [DONE June 13, 2025]
  
• Fix the Markdown Plugin
  
• Replace Mini Battery [DONE Oct 1, 2025]
  
• Fix Convo to embed YT Shorts [DONE June 13, 2025]
  
• Fix and release Group Prestige
  
• Prevent Vacation Ban if Open Dispute [DONE June 14, 2025]
  
• Fix API USERS/ME Endpoints
  
• Fix API THREADS Permissions
  
• Alter the Notify link for Buddy Request to link to the user profile
  

🎨 2. UI/UX & Visual Design Updates (Low–Medium Effort)

• Change Convo Default Page [DONE June 15, 2025]
  
• Updated Awards to transparent background
  
• Update HF Cloudflare block pages to reflect new design [DONE June 13, 2025]
  
• Alter HF Footer for better layout
  
• Update QuickThread feature, better description and possible AI integration
  
• Redo the HF Official group userbar images [DONE in 2025]
  
• Create a better error system instead of default error\_no\_permission()
  
• Alter HF Nav Menu to be Left Slideout on desktop version
  
• Upgrade Font-Awesome[DONE- Oct 10, 2026]
  
• Change HF email format [DONE- June 17, 2025]
  
• Create a Profile Banner Gallery for new members to choose from
  
• Colored thread titles for Bytes advertising option
  
• Create either a 4 aces or Royal Flush awards
  
• Make a set of Holiday Based Stars to use as official groups
  
• Consider Google Font Holiday options
  

🤖 3. AI Integration & Automation (Medium Effort)

• Integrate Stanley AI Posting
  
• Create additional trained AI Assistance for posting roles on HF
  
• Integrate Stanley AI into Convo
  
• Plugin for easier contest drawing (Stanley posts winner)
  
• Create a plugin for RSS and News aggregated posts [DONE- June 11, 2025]
  
• Integrate Quiz API for Awards like PHP, C++, coding
  
• Create HF Quiz for an Award Goal
  

🛠️ 4. Plugins, Features, and Tools (Medium–High Effort)

• Convo (Public room): add Mute option for Ignored members
  
• Convo: add exemption for /rain to not grant to ignored members
  
• Timer on the page for new members before account deletion
  
• Create a Hide Award feature [DONE July 26, 2025]
  
• Create Dice game in Convo
  
• Survey System Plugin (New Member Survey)
  
• Add Award Goal for 1000+ post milestone
  
• Offer Forever Sales Tag option
  
• Add ability to do Parlay in Sportsbook
  
• Log all public Convo chat and make super thread daily
  
• Add PGP Key Generator HF Tool
  
• Custom Notify option on groupcp page
  
• Thread Tags for SEO
  
• Add Wepb support to Convo and forums posts
  
• Create custom Convo Rooms with mod perms & commands
  
• SSO via email using the QR Login feature
  
• GSC Byte Rewards Plugin
  

🧩 5. Gamification & Interactive Features (Higher Effort)

• Create a $50 Scratchcard with new graphics
  
• Make a 5000 bytes scratchcard
  
• Review Scratchcard Payouts overall
  
• Add commands /attack and /hack to Convo (gamification)
  
• Hack Game – do something with it
  
• Do another HF Puzzle
  
• Create Bytes multiplier for custom groups option [DONE- July 23, 2025]
  
• Create Vendor "Code of Business Ethics"
  
• Create Vcard Modal (use in Convo/Posts)
  

🧑‍💻 6. Profiles, Groups & Customization (High Effort)

• Make a custom profile postbit for groups options
  
• Rebuild the Profiles Page (possibly integrate with Market Profile)
  
• Profile Setup Wizard
  
• Allow more profile editing/customization (new plugin)
  
• Rebuild the Upgrade page completely
  
• L33t Upgraded members select a Hat Award
  
• Do something with the hacker hat awards
  
• Referral Award Goal
  
• On Dispute: have some profile indicator on postbit
  
• On upgrade, expire existing warnings and percentages
  

🌐 7. SEO, URLs, and Landing Pages (High Effort)

• Alter URLs for increased SEO (start with FID's)
  
• Create Landing Page for HackForums.com (link to .net) [DONE- June 16, 2025]
  
• Contest for a new HF Landing Page
  
• Offer L33t Upgrade FREE based on site goals (survey, post count, etc.)
  

🧾 8. Payments, Accounts & Monetization (Medium–High Effort)

• Integrate Nowpayments for direct alt payments + backup
  
• Consider Passkeys or better login options
  
• Email Blast about latest HF changes
  
• Replace HF video for registration promotion
  
• Buy new Refrigerator 🧊 (Unrelated – move to separate admin/personal task list)
  

🎯 9. New Member Experience & Onboarding (High Effort)

• INTROJS integration (great for onboarding)
  
• Create an action-oriented first experience with reward
  
• Profile Setup Wizard
  
• Create Landing Page for HackForums.com (.com -> .net SEO)
  
• TikTok Contest/Award
  
• Figure out new daily task to replace DCI
  

🧪 10. Experimental / Consideration Stage (Needs planning/approval)

• Consider a privatebin for HF members
  
• Bug Bounty Award for proven bounties
  
• Consider Google Font Holiday options
  
• Consider Passkeys or better login options
  

So that's my many pages of notes turned into a list. On many of these I have notes like how the feature might work, links to an API and whatnot. Currently I have 11 tabs of notes open in Notepad++ that's always building. I can take one off and three more get added. But more recently with the help of AI I'm starting to turn that around and get more accomplished.

Does this Roadmap help anyone? I just think it's a long list of shit I gotta do.

But it was mentioned as potentially helpful and well, here you go.

[Omniscient]

I'm glad to see you update the roadmap, and we are ready for the high-quality off-road adventure!

Forgot to cross one off that's done.

[Punisher]

• Buy new Refrigerator
  
  
• Drag and Drop images right into posts (self-host or CDN API)
  
  
• Referral Award Goal
  
  
• Bug Bounty Award for proven bounties on officially listed sites
  
  
• Make a Roadmap for members to complain about all the things not done
  

1. Dude, don't wait too long to get a new refrigerator, especially with the incoming heat, it's going to be working overtime.
   
2. Drag and Drop images right into posts would be awesome, it's something that a lot of people have gotten used to being the norm when interacting with websites.
   
3. I was wondering about the referral system, I remember there being a byte reward per member invited. Wonder if an award goal would be more attractive.
   
4. Gotta love bug bounties. Letting people flex their skills would demonstrate there are actual hackers on this site.
   

Interesting read, you're a busy man. Thanks for sharing.

[Omniscient]

Forgot one.

Custom Notify option on groupcp page

I'm sure that list is gonna grow faster than it's going to get done. Ideas are easy to come by, time to execute never so easy. I'm just one guy. When I had Xerotic lots and lots got done because I had someone dedicated to doing my list and nothing else. And no, I don't want to ever hire an admin again.

[Zher0]

I do like the road map, i see you do have a huuuuge list. I know you mentioned you aren't working on anything in any particular order. So you're not prioritizing anything? Are they all weighted the same?

[Mix]

Forgot one.

Custom Notify option on groupcp page

I'm sure that list is gonna grow faster than it's going to get done. Ideas are easy to come by, time to execute never so easy. I'm just one guy. When I had Xerotic lots and lots got done because I had someone dedicated to doing my list and nothing else. And no, I don't want to ever hire an admin again.

I miss those days we would see almost weekly content no matter the event and Xerotic would even come out with a few bangers on the side.

Glad to see a trello/roadmap in place, The list will forever grow for sure but slowly task by task will see itself get checcked off and another 3 will get added 😆

[Omniscient]

Convo add a /rain limit to prevent spam (1 rain per min

DONE.

[jcole]

Really looking forward to you completing more tasks on this list. Great job Omniscient , lately you have been showing a lot of quality attention back to the community.

[Ombra]

I asked AI to take the list, group points by categories and order them by required effort.
Order always helps and starting from low effort points might make you feel accomplished and willing to proceed with more complex tasks.

NOTE: The AI BBcode didn't appear to work well as it only formatted the first line of the message.

AI Quote:
🔧 1. Bug Fixes & Minor Tweaks (Low Effort)
Fix Convo New Messages and text box
Fix Bug of empty profile visitor from deleted UID's
Fix the Markdown Plugin
Fix Challenger
Replace Mini Battery
Fix Convo to embed YT Shorts
Fix and release Group Prestige
Prevent Vacation Ban if Open Dispute
Alter the Notify link for Buddy Request to link to the user profile

🎨 2. UI/UX & Visual Design Updates (Low–Medium Effort)
Change Convo Default Page
Updated Awards to transparent background
Update HF Cloudflare block pages to reflect new design
Alter HF Footer for better layout
Update QuickThread feature, better description and possible AI integration
Redo the HF Official group userbar images
Create a better error system instead of default error_no_permission()
Alter HF Nav Menu to be Left Slideout on desktop version
Upgrade Font-Awesome
Change HF email format
Create a Profile Banner Gallery for new members to choose from
Colored thread titles for Bytes advertising option
Create either a 4 aces or Royal Flush awards
Make a set of Holiday Based Stars to use as official groups
Consider Google Font Holiday options

🤖 3. AI Integration & Automation (Medium Effort)

Integrate Stanley AI Posting
Create additional trained AI Assistance for posting roles on HF
Integrate Stanley AI into Convo
Plugin for easier contest drawing (Stanley posts winner)
Create a plugin for RSS and News aggregated posts
Integrate Quiz API for Awards like PHP, C++, coding
Create HF Quiz for an Award Goal

🛠️ 4. Plugins, Features, and Tools (Medium–High Effort)

Convo (Public room): add Mute option for Ignored members
Convo: add exemption for /rain to not grant to ignored members
Timer on the page for new members before account deletion
Create a Hide Award feature
Create Dice game in Convo
Survey System Plugin (New Member Survey)
Add Award Goal for 1000+ post milestone
Offer Forever Sales Tag option
Add ability to do Parlay in Sportsbook
Log all public Convo chat and make super thread daily
Add PGP Key Generator HF Tool
Custom Notify option on groupcp page
Thread Tags for SEO
Create custom Convo Rooms with mod perms & commands

🧩 5. Gamification & Interactive Features (Higher Effort)

Create a $50 Scratchcard with new graphics
Make a 5000 bytes scratchcard
Review Scratchcard Payouts overall
Add commands /attack and /hack to Convo (gamification)
Hack Game – do something with it
Do another HF Puzzle
Create multiplier for custom groups option
Create Vendor "Code of Business Ethics"
Create Vcard Modal (use in Convo/Posts)
Give Mentors Convo Mod

🧑‍💻 6. Profiles, Groups & Customization (High Effort)

Make a custom profile postbit for groups options
Rebuild the Profiles Page (possibly integrate with Market Profile)
Profile Setup Wizard
Allow more profile editing/customization (new plugin)
Rebuild the Upgrade page completely
L33t Upgraded members select a Hat Award
Do something with the hacker hat awards
Referral Award Goal
On Dispute: have some profile indicator on postbit
On upgrade, expire existing warnings and percentages

🌐 7. SEO, URLs, and Landing Pages (High Effort)

Alter URLs for increased SEO (start with FID's)
Create Landing Page for HackForums.com (link to .net)
Contest for a new HF Landing Page
Offer L33t Upgrade FREE based on site goals (survey, post count, etc.)

🧾 8. Payments, Accounts & Monetization (Medium–High Effort)

Integrate Nowpayments for direct alt payments + backup
Consider Passkeys or better login options
Email Blast about latest HF changes
Replace HF video for registration promotion
Buy new Refrigerator 🧊 (Unrelated – move to separate admin/personal task list)

🎯 9. New Member Experience & Onboarding (High Effort)

INTROJS integration (great for onboarding)
Create an action-oriented first experience with reward
Profile Setup Wizard
Create Landing Page for HackForums.com (.com -> .net SEO)
TikTok Contest/Award
Figure out new daily task to replace DCI

🧪 10. Experimental / Consideration Stage (Needs planning/approval)

Consider a privatebin for HF members
Bug Bounty Award for proven bounties
Consider Google Font Holiday options
Consider Passkeys or better login options

[Cap]

A huge roadmap. I’m excited to see how everything goes. Thank you for your dedication to the site.

[Sam]

How are you going to keep the beers cold without a refrigerator? That should be the priority. 🙁

[Omniscient]

Ombra So you're aware, there is an AIQ mycode you should use when quoting AI, it looks much nicer than quote tags. Also you can always tell AI to use MyBB MyCode formatting in creating the reply. I'm still working on the markdown replacement.

And yeah, that's a really nice ordered list, it was late when I did it, didn't think to AI format it with groupings. I'll update first post with it.

[Vitani's Mate]

Wow that is quite a lot of things.
I really hope you're up to all that.

Remember take your time!

[Omniscient]

This is excellent news!

Glad to see your tackling this roadmap, but don't forget to take a break and enjoy some MLB & UFC this evening.

It's baseball season. Daily activity for me. I'll watch UFC if it's on but I stopped following it closely many years ago. I don't have spare time to watch 2 sports at the same time. Focus'd on MLB right now.

[Tyr]

It's baseball season. Daily activity for me.

Keep it HQ bossman