Removed the stupid photobucket ransomware bull. Used some temp icons to replace ones that needed it till I make more....That is all. K bye.

I am getting user notification in my email but do to the recent spambot (or not so recent) I will not be manually activating any accounts that are sent to me via email. This is for the safety of everyone.

Today a spambot posted. I'm mentioning this to make sure users keep an eye out for potential dangerous links or dangerous posts. Spambots can sometimes post in other languages ie like that viagra one that was in Russian. Please report any bots immediately. DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS POSTED BY THESE BOTS! We've had bots in the past PM users so keep an eye out of anything out of the ordinary so we can crack down on these bots. I blame Forumotion for their stupid forum inactivity feature. The feature disables users from being able to activate their accounts till an admin activates them. Of course I have tried to keep an eye out for suspicious accounts like those accounts with burner emails but I assume some spam bots may have been activated during this process. If you find yourself getting pmd by a spambot, do not click any links provided by the bots and report the user with a screenshot of the message immediately so the bot can be banned.

Alex and I decided to create a Discord group. Originally it was planned to replace Chatango but we wanted a chat, not a widget so we left it for now unless the Discord devs can fix their security issue and bring it back. The Click to chat! links to a discord invite and there's a widget on the portal. If you want a link, here it is! https://discord.gg/V5rVBGw

If you download discord, you can get in contact with us more often.

First of all, I'm having this conversation public and in announcements as it sums up a few things that I announced before.  Returning users might see this and understand some of the changes I made.
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-Chatango
If you're wondering why the chatango is no longer owned by you, I had to replace it do to a spam bot getting access to it and spamming the chat with potential malware and I didn't have the rights to totally fix it.  Anons are currently disabled in the chat as I believe the spam bots are related to inactivity and as I cannot be around very often do to my financial issues (that seem to be coming to a close within a year).  I was worried for our users.  I have added your account as staff.  This was done a while ago.  If you have a new account, I can add that to staff.  All admin settings are enabled to you including the removal and adding of moderators.  If you feel that you want your own chatango again you obviously know that's up to you it being your website and all.  The chatango's width is now dynamic to keep it more consistent.  It's height was changed to make it look ok from any width.  There's a link to the chatango in the header buttons.  Originally, I manually updated the old flash version of your chat to html5 but that old chat is no-longer in use.

-Forum design
I did quite a few changes to this forum including pushing it to PunBB and manually moving over the colors and icons as the forum back up feature was not working at the time.  I was …

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Just a little note, some of our icons are hosted on photobucket and photobucket is currently down for maintenance so meow!

I decided since this forum has been around since 2010 that I'd add some groups.

Members -50 posts or more- BRONZE
Advanced Members -200 posts or more- SILVER
VIP Members -500 posts or more- GOLD
GOD Members -1000 posts or more- PLATINUM
@%ERROR% I popped you up as the mod for all these because meow.

Members who already are at or above these goals are already added.  Anyone who meets these goals in the future will be added automatically.

I understand some of these colors are hard to read on the front page but meh, I'll fix it soon.
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Re-aranged the group order as they were arranged in an order that did not make sense.


Before, revamped contributors was before devs making the devs who had contributed recolored to contributors, I felt that devs should come first.

Devs has been changed to a nice soft green because VIP Members are now Gold and the colors were too sim.

Just a short reminder that accounts attached to burner emails will be banned with out question.  This includes if the user made an account with a real email along side it. It's very suspicious and I will not tolerate it.

From my understanding, the electricity in this house is supposed to be shut off soon.  This means I cannot take care of this forum while I'm gone.  I don't know when it'll be but it'll be soon.  Most likely within 11 days.  I'll miss you guys.
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Turns out that that date is tomorrow.  Rip  bye everyone!
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Turns out that CMP is just a big and hasn't shut me off yet. Electricity should be paid by the end of this week. Keep in mind that the electricity can still be shut off between now and then. We didn't get a shut off notice so who knows *shrugs*