manta2g
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Verification & password reset e-mails are rolling out.
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Congrats on all your hard work. We appreciate it.
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The silence begins to ebb.
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Got mine and worked fine. Can’t wait to be able to post again. Thank you for all your hard work.
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- Deadman and BronxWench
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**Quietly unlocks a few site functions.** Work has been hellish, been barely able to stay awake long enough to eat dinner most days...
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Ate garlic? Sacrificed a virgin? Sprinkled the holy water to keep our pesky hooligan away? I’m hoping this time’s the charm to keep our website!
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It’s going to be a bit slow, and there is a lot more account security that has been implemented.
Keep an eye on your e-mail, everyone is going to have to re verify their account and change their archive password.
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Login, then logout and reset password via forgot password. If you can’t log in, you need to e-mail tos_team@adult-fanfiction.org with the e-mail address for your account, and they will send an authorization link you will need to click before forgot password / password reset will work.
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I would love to strangle whomever in HR came up with the less is more policy. Running skeleton crews is not how one runs a customer service based business.
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Skeleton crews are only appropriate on Halloween, otherwise, penny wise but pound foolish.
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Oh yeah. Got promoted to full time the first thing management did was try to make me work nine days in a row.
That’s the thing I do like about my current gig… it’s paperwork and signoffs to do overtime, it’s illegal for me to work for free, therefore bureaucratic resistance against having to put in extra hours. Gotta love red tape!
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Boy do I get that. Of course, I have a micromanaging DM, which is driving me battier than I already am
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- Wilde_Guess, BronxWench and manta2g
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Just got up for work, cleared it out. this is driving batty….
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Cleaned it out.... really frustrating how they are bypassing logins and security protocols.
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While it may seem quiet of the surface, it’s been quite busy behind the scenes for AFF.
We’ve been busy doing a security sweep of user accounts. Accounts with invalid or disposable e-mails have been purged.
Currently, we are merging the over 5 k users with duplicate (or more) accounts down to a single account per user.-
No worries, we appreciate the work you’re doing.
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Thank you for your hard work!
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My day job has been a gong show of late, troubleshooting AFF's woes has remained on my mind.
Hoping to start the first phase of unlocking the site this week. So don't be surprised if you get an email asking to re-verify your email and to change your password.
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Real life definitely gets in the way! Thanks for all you do, Manta2g!
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I will never be happier to re-verify my email and change my password. Thanks, Manta!
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Manta is a gem!!!
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Sorry this was my bad, between haste and fatigue I uploaded the wrong version… Fixed now.
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Actually profiles are fine, when locking stuff down I uploaded the wrong file version by mistake, fixed now. Profiles are not created upon registration & activation, they are optional to allow for privacy and can be created at a later date. (current not possible during read-only mode.)
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Full read only mode. Hacker attacked the chapters tables. Thier malice is wearing on my nerves. Dg and I will deep dive after our respective day jobs.
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i won’t pass
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That’s really annoying. I’m sure you’ll get it done.
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What I’m hoping is that by looking at some logs, given the time it occurred, I may be able to find something out. Won’t know until I try it.
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Caught the ass hat hacker in the act….. The ass is a member and targeting the story manager story info update. Restored the db from an earlier clone and have now laid a trap….
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I’m making progress, turned updating off for now as I don’t want a breach while I’m at work. That being said, looks like they were bogged down by the trap that they didn’t get too far. You can post new stories and chapters, but editing existing is turned off.
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thanks for your work manta!
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We’re going to need an extra special wicker man for this ass hat, aren’t we?
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Profile editing, registration, activation, and password reset unlocked.
Next unlock and backup in a few hours.
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Partial ready-only mode, story manager unlocked. Profile editing will unlock in a couple of hours. Trying to figure out where exactly our hacker is getting in.
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- BronxWench, InvidiaRed, GrayNeko and 2 others
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The only thing I know about coding is that rubber ducky trick.
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Sitting in read only again for a bit, Ass hat hacker attacked again. I need to get a couple of hours sleep before I look at the code. Had to roll back 24 hours
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Giblet those hackers!
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I did panic post in general staff questions but then the forum went down. So i don’t know if anyone saw it
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@InvidiaRed I saw it and took steps to restore what I could.
Now that I’ve slept, I’m cloning the db as a quick backup then I’ll be unlocking areas starting with areas that require login. so story manager will be unlocked in about a half hour from now.-
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Story Manager is now Live!!!!
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So my father-in-law recently survived a stroke, unfortunately. (He’s a real narcissistic ass) and that side of the family is pushing for my husband and I to send well wishes to him…. So, any suggestions for bland / neutral ways to say “congratulations on your continued existence.”?
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Story manager rewrite 25% done & new donations plug image.
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Update 2! Reviews are under the new code and functioning.
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Great to hear.
Small thing I noticed, not a serious concern right away. Under the Television category, the tab title (forgot what it’s officially called), is actually “Telivision”. Like I said, not a hugely important thing to fix immediately.
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Thanks for catching that.
fixed now. I rely a lot on spell check since English is not my first language…. *Wanders over to the non-english french section*
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- InvidiaRed and Deadman
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Glad I could help.
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Update! Story display is now in the new code, and you can now from within a story one click add a story to your current reading or recommended reading. You can also now delete current reading or recommended reading stories from your profile.
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Update! Story display is now in the new code, and you can now from withing a story one click add a story to your current reading or recommended reading. You can also now delete current reading or recommended reading stories from your profile.
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It is slowly creeping back to life. I don’t have a definite eta, but I’ve been on a roll of releasing sections every few days. Today, stories along with the ability to manage recommendation and current reading just rolled out. Next is reviews, and then the story manager (Authors have been waiting on this one).
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As I’ve said before, you will have those functions soon enough. In other words, sit tight, and it will be available when I am done with it. Right now, you can only add and remove authors.
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url? The user control panel is now directly integrated in with your profile when logged in.
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Fiction portal 1.0 was written in php 4, 2.0 was done in php5 and ported to php 7 for the forums with bare bones changes to retain functionality. Fiction portal 3.0 is being done in php 8(current). The biggest issue for 2.0 is that security functions in php 5 were depreciated in php 7. The injection attack only affected the stories tables. Every thing else was untouched. We assumed the worst that they had managed to bypass login requirements. Thankfully that was not the case. The attack was done via the archive search engine which only queries the stories table. If you are really worried reset your password, that will log you out everywhere and allow you to secure your account. Whom ever this hacker is they are not fond of AFF. While in read only mode there have been a few attempts to overwhelm the server and crash it. That slows down my progress 😞.
