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07-29-2008, 02:21 PM
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Overlord
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Seattle, Washington
Age: 32
Posts: 15,697
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ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
Hello,
We've been working diligently on V3 of the site, which boasts a brand new design, several awesome new features (including manga information), and better usability. In the interest of disclosure, approximately one month ago a person found a security hole in the site (presumably through the older version of vbulletin) which allowed him to send a mass spam email for his anime stream site (I'm sure a lot of you with forum accounts got it). As it turns out, this person had greater access than we could find at the time. Since we don't know the exact hole he found, we thought the responsible course of action would be to take down the old codebase, wipe the server, and speed up the production of V3. We are doing our best to ensure that the new site is secure. Just to be safe, I'd suggest changing your passwords. In two weeks, V3 alpha will launch. This version will not have any of the new features, but will have the new design and (hopefully) all of the old site features in place. Keep in mind we are having to finish design and develop the old features from scratch in only two weeks. A lofty challenge, but we are up for it! The official V3 launch will still occur in the beginning of October, and will have the new site features. Your site accounts, anime lists, recommendations and all content are safe and sound. They'll be back in 2 weeks. For now please enjoy the forum. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Stick around for a new and improved AP.
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07-30-2008, 06:57 AM
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Cross-eyed Cyclops
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: 1985
Posts: 3,014
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
Still hasn't auto-updated for me, I had to flush manually a few times. If people hadn't been tyalking about it in chat, I never would have known it was back up. You should edit the pages on the old server to tell everyone to flush their dns.
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07-30-2008, 12:49 PM
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POPEE BELIEVER
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: England
Age: 27
Posts: 3,297
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
Thanks for the update and for all the work you're doing :)
Good luck with it all!
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07-30-2008, 04:25 PM
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Otaku
Join Date: May 2008
Age: 30
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
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07-30-2008, 04:30 PM
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MY DNA IS MADE UP OF ANIME
Join Date: Dec 2007
Age: 24
Posts: 4,881
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
Well, good luck. I can't wait for it to be back. I don't know how I can survive without it. I will do my best to live until it is back up.
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07-30-2008, 04:56 PM
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MY DNA IS MADE UP OF ANIME
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Brunswick Ohio
Age: 25
Posts: 3,247
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
Well thanks for that update sothis I was wondering what that Email was about good thing I didn't sign up for that site. I will wait to change the password as I don't want to lose my Forum account and main one. Wait till the mereger to make it easy. Thank you again for all the hard work and effort you and your staff do. GO ANIME PLANET STAFF KICK HIS ASS.
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07-30-2008, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Anywhere in the World.
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07-30-2008, 05:29 PM
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Cross-eyed Cyclops
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: 1985
Posts: 3,014
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
...So the site hacker was the same character that pulled that spamming stunt? I didn't realize the 2 incidents were related.
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07-30-2008, 06:01 PM
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MY DNA IS MADE UP OF ANIME
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 4,908
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MAIN SITE'S TEMP CLOSURE
Good Luck and I can't wait for the new and improved and oh, safer Anime Planet!
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