Well, it's been a bit since the last one of these happened, huh?


At about 8:30 UTC+0 (12:30AM PST), an admin account was compromised, and a news notification was sent out saying we needed money to keep this site running, and to donate to bitcoin to a bitcoin wallet. They also sent the same message to a few users as well. Be aware, we never have and (most likely) never will accept BTC. The only donation methods we've ever accepted have been Flattr (and on the rare occasion, Paypal.)


We've also never offered any sort of ratio bonus for donating. Not only is that a silly thing for such a niche and tight-knit tracker like sows, but it could also be seen as for-profit piracy, which we're really not about here.


We were made aware of this news post after one user notified us, and informed us they'd also received a PM. To circumvent this, we checked and saw that only about 120 PMs were sent out, by the system account. The PM was a copy-paste of the news article. All of these PMs were deleted.


We also have no reason to believe any user information was compromised. We do, however, want to use this moment to stress that security is important and you should use strong and unique passwords for all services.


If you have any further questions, feel free to send in a staff PM or poke any of the Admins or SysOps in the Discord.

I didn't mean to bump the other announcement (I thought it would make a new one??) so please also read this thread from earlier today. forums.php?action

It's finally here..

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Use this thread to talk about it, ask for help, etc.

Thanks to pixel and shiz for their help bringing this to life!!