[Hydra]

Out With the DOGE, in With the BCH
With a thread in the Rules, Announcements, News, and Feedback section, Omniscient announced that Dogecoin will no longer be accepted for site transactions. This also means the immediate suspension of the purchasable Dogecoinage award. In Dogecoin's place, support for Bitcoin Cash was revealed. The fork of Bitcoin can now be used for all site transactions. Lastly, the BTCash award was revealed and can only be obtained by donating $50 worth of Bitcoin Cash. Those interested may do so here.>>Source

No More Notification Delays
Omniscient created a short thread announcing he had applied a fix for a MyBB bug that had caused large delays in both private message and email notifications. According to our admin, it should now take no longer than ten minutes to receive any notifications you are due. >>Source

User News

• Ombra has reached 500 prestige.
  

Bans*

• Sorzus has been banned, account under investigation.
  
• Result has been banned.
  

Vacations*

• Maxim has taken a vacation.
  

Closures

• Nevieth was closed!
  

Awards

• Cameron has received the Cool award.
  

*As of the Sunday prior to release.

Group Changes

• Vitani is no longer the owner of Notorious.
  
• Factor8™ is no longer the owner of Escrow.
  
• Honey Singh is no longer a leader of Escrow.
  
• Notorious has been rebranded to MRT.
  
• Revolution has been rebranded to Thorium.
  
• DenizZ is now a leader of Thorium.
  
• Divined is now the owner of Escrow and MRT.
  
• c$sh is now a leader of Escrow and MRT.
  
• Billie Joe is now a leader of Escrow.
  

Group Recruitments

• Dawn Coding Recruitment
  
• Heroes General Recruitment
  
• Influence General Recruitment
  
• Prosperity General Recruitment
  
• Prosperity Crypto Trading Recruitment
  
• SheepGang General Recruitment
  
• Socialites General Recruitment
  
• Terminal Coding Recruitment
  
• Terminal Personal Development Recruitment
  
• The Executives User CP Recruitment
  
• Unity Hacking & Programming Recruitment
  

Informational and Buy-in Threads

• Divined & C$sh Information
  
• Influence Information
  
• Legends Information
  
• Prosperity Information
  
• Socialites Information
  

Groups For Sale

• Heroes
  

Announcements

• Email and PM Notification Delays - Omniscient
  For awhile since the latest forum upgrade, MyBB had a bug that would send PM's/emails at a delay. This issue has now been addressed and fixed.
  
  
• Doge Gone, BCH Added - Omniscient
  The Doge award has been removed from the donation list and discontinued, the Bitcoin Cash award has been added.
  

Member Feedback & Testimonials

• r0flez > 3 Years - r0flez
  r0flez shares his feedback after being on Hack Forums for 3 years.
  

Informational Threads

• Tutorial Ethereum Transaction Not Appearing or Still Pending? Read here how to fix it! - Kill Joy
  A tutorial on etherium transactions that have either not shown or are still pending.
  
  
• [UNITY] How to start a (freelance) company as a programmer - El Pusstolero
  A tutorial on starting a company as a programmer.
  

Entertaining Threads

• 16 months in jail - Xerotic
  One of our older members explains his recent inactivity throughout the past year and a half.
  
  
• Best christmas tree ever! - SoccerBet
  An entertaining thread celebrating the days of December.
  

Contests & Giveaways

• [Heroes] Gift Award Contest [OPEN] - SuperPom
  A giveaway for the gift award for the community, sponsored by the Heroes group.
  
  
• Ub3r Upgrade (Christmas) - Charger
  Free ub3r upgrade given to the l33t's of the community.
  
  
• I will upgrade one member to L33T/3P1C/UB3R. Ends on the 18th. - The Worker
  A giveaway for the normal members and l33t's of the community.
  

Site Statistics

• Total (Click to View)
  • Posts: 41,225,501 (+0.07% | +30,467)
    
  • Threads: 3,911,424 (+0.08% | +3,150)
    
  • Members: 603,431 (+0.70% | +4,204)
    

• Averages (Click to View)
  • Daily Posts: 9,727 (-0.06% | -5.88)
    
  • Daily Threads: 922.89 (-0.05% | -0.49)
    
  • Daily New Members: 142.38 (+0.57% | +0.8)
    
  • Posts Per Member: 68.75 (-0.63% | -0.43)
    
  • Threads Per Member: 6.48 (-0.61% | -0.04)
    
  • Replies Per Thread: 9.54 (~)
    

Ban Statistics

• Last Week's Bans (Click to View)
  • Staff Bans: 43
    • ... Change from Last Edition: (-27.12% | -16)
      
  • Vacation Bans: 9
    • ... Change from Last Edition: (+80% | +4)
      
  • Combined Bans: 52
    • ... Change from Last Edition: (-18.75% | -12)
      

Forum Counts

• Section Counts (Click to View)
  • Notable Sections
    • Lounge Threads: 545,036 (+0.05% | +283)
      
    • Lounge Posts: 8,076,942 (+0.04% | +3,083)
      
    • RANF Threads: 70,639 (+0.05% | +36)
      
    • RANF Posts: 1,116,230 (+0.04% | +451)
      
  • General Topics
    • Threads: 790,748 (+0.06% | +449)
      
    • Posts: 11,782,867 (+0.05% | +5,419)
      
  • Hacks, Exploits, and Various Discussions
    • Threads: 716,263 (+0.06% | +426)
      
    • Posts: 6,231,752 (+0.05% | +2,887)
      
  • Computing
    • Threads: 215,385 (+0.03% | +70)
      
    • Posts: 1,801,314 (+0.03% | +472)
      
  • Programming, Coding, and Languages
    • Threads: 173,010 (+0.03% | +57)
      
    • Posts: 1,474,773 (+0.02% | +338)
      
  • HF Gamers Zone
    • Threads: 464,184 (+0.02% | +103)
      
    • Posts: 4,791,704 (+0.02% | +954)
      
  • Group and Crew General Discussions
    • Threads: 8,131 (+0.17% | +14)
      
    • Posts: 351,364 (+0.13% | +439)
      
  • Webmasters
    • Threads: 87,153 (+0.04% | +37)
      
    • Posts: 628,910 (+0.04% | +226)
      
  • Graphics
    • Threads: 137,850 (+0.03% | +42)
      
    • Posts:[/u] 1,028,190 (+0.02% | +239)
      
  • Marketplace
    • Threads: 1,072,397 (+0.11% | +1,130)
      
    • Posts: 9,545,855 (+0.11% | +10,758)
      
  • Making Money
    • Threads: 157,573 (+0.26% | +408)
      
    • Posts: 2,064,040 (+0.23% | +4,779)
      

Membership Counts

• Groups (Click to View)
  • C$sh
    • 2 Members (~)
  • Dawn
    • 12 Members (~)
  • Divined
    • 2 Members (~)
  • Equilibrium
    • 34 Members (+1)
  • Escrow
    • 4 Members (+2)
  • Heroes
    • 58 Members (+7)
  • Influence
    • 52 Members (+7)
  • Legends
    • 28 Members (~)
  • MRT
    • 4 Members (+2)
  • Prosperity
    • 24 Members (+2)
  • Red Lions
    • 12 Members (~)
  • SheepGang
    • 25 Members (+7)
  • Skill
    • 66 Members (-1)
  • Socialites
    • 33 Members (+8)
  • Terminal
    • 50 Members (+4)
  • The Empire
    • 1 Members (~)
  • The Executives
    • 139 Members (~)
  • Thorium
    • 4 Members (~)
  • Torque
    • 63 Members (-1)
  • Unity
    • 8 Members (~)

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[Soulmate～っ☆]

New edition is out, good job everybody. For the first time we have more than two people doing all the sections. 😁

[Armada]

Bans*

• Sorzus has been banned, account under investigation.
  

To add to this I actually just Messaged Omni about this issue, Sorzus has secured his 2FA and replaced his lost phone, which caused the security concern, I hope him to be unbanned by end of day.

As for r0ffles testimony:

How I found HF.
In the year 2014 I use to hang around a lot on IRCd servers, just chilling, joking but making loads of new friends and I loved the way that Online Social life was. So I decided to create my own IRCd server, and as my server was growing bigger and bigger with more members joining each week i started to get a lot of problems, like people ddosing me off-line then coming back bragging I had been owned and all the other rubbish, so to look in to this more on how to stop the situation I googled ddos protection and came across HF. The place looked massive full of different options on what to look through and learn. There and then I had to register and join up, within the first year of just browsing here and making posting comments I loved the place that much I tried creating my own forum just the same, which was a huge failure lol.

EXACT SAME REASON I found my way here.
Ran and IRC network and some dick kept knocking us offline, and after the rebuild I joined here looking for someone to stress test the network. 🤫

[Saltpeter]

New edition is out, good job everybody. For the first time we have more than two people doing all the sections. 😁

Froggy and I were hard at work. 😏

[byte[]]

Nice edition, I enjoy the way the design for the News has changed as time went on.

[Raz Riverblade]

Noooooo!

I'm going to miss Nev a lot :'(

[Who Soup]

Damn nice to see the money making section coming up in growth. Hopefully we'll get more good numbers soon :)

[Mαxim]

I actually enjoy these shorter editions way more. It sums up things that happened on the forum the past week and not news that i can read on news-sites.

[Hydra]

Next edition will include some new additions + changes. Will be looking for your feedback!

[King Joey]

Awesome News! Always looking forward to reading this :)