Forum Updates

[cyclone]

FYI
The hashpwn forum experienced a brief outage on 2025-10-07 14:39 UTC - 2025-10-07 15:56 UTC. The incident was caused by an unexpected host server reboot initiated by the datacenter without prior notice, which interrupted an automated database sync and left the forum database in a corrupt state.

To minimize downtime, the forum database was restored to a known working state from a recent backup. As a result, approx 12 hours of activity were lost which included several posts from @hashpwn-bot and users.

Thanks for your patience while this was sorted out.
~ @cyclone

[cyclone]

Due to the global Cloudflare outage today, all hashpwn front-end web services were either partially, or fully, unavailable from 11/18/2025 11:57 UTC - 11/18/2025 14:35 UTC with an Internal Server Error 500 status from Cloudflare. As soon as Cloudflare mitigated the issue on their side, all hashpwn front-end web services became available.

More info about Cloudflare's outage:

• https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/6195
• https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-outage-internet-down-x-open-ai-2025-11

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

[cyclone]

Happy Thanksgiving (US Holiday). Whether you're cracking hashes, coding, feasting with friends and family, or all of them above, have a great week!

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Christmas is quickly approaching! As we did last year with our Merry Christmas 2024 - hashpwn Wordlist Challenge, hashpwn will be hosting another challenge, The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge - Double Time, where we will be posting 12 challenges over the 6 days leading up to Christmas Day... so, double time! Also, in addition to releasing an updated hashpwn wordlist, we will also have daily prizes for participants to win.

Go check it out at the link below, and mark your calendar!
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/4844

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The Twelve Days of Christmas Challenge - Double Time starts in one week! Are you ready?

The Challenge is open to everyone, both beginner and pro, and will increase in difficulty as the Challenge progresses. Everyone who participates will have multiple chances at winning prizes.

Speaking of prizes... did I mention there's over $200 up for grabs in the 12 daily Challenge prizes, plus a $$$ Grand Prize?

https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/4844

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As you may have noticed, @hashpwn-bot suddenly stopped posting yesterday (Dec 20, 2025). This interrupted the hashes.com-escrow-feed and The Twelve Days of Christmas 2025 Challenge bot from their automated posting.

This issue has been resolved by adding hashpwn-bot to an allow list on CloudFlare.

• Thankfully, nothing was lost other than a few minutes of my time while troubleshooting
• @hashpwn-bot is replaying the 43 missed posts on hashes.com-escrow-feed
  • https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/7713
• @hashpwn-bot will continue posting the challenge hashes and hints for The Twelve Days of Christmas 2025 Challenge
  • https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/4844

[cyclone]

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope Santa got you a shiny new RTX 5090... and not a stocking full of coal! Regardless of how you spent this holiday season, I wish you the very best, and thanks for being a part of hashpwn.

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If you haven't already, head over and give the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge a go as there's currently still a few more prizes to be won (although this is winding down fast!).
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/4844

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Also, our friends over at HashMob just released their optimized HashMob.150k ruleset, so go check them out on Discord:
hashmob.net/discord

[cyclone]

The hashpwn 12 Days of Christmas Challenge Walkthrough and Submission Results have been posted!

Walkthrough:
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/8042

Challenge Submission Results:
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/8043

Also, Grand Prize winner @_cin posted a summary of his experience:
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/8041

[cyclone]

Happy New Year, hashpwn!

We wrapped up our first full year in 2025 and had a lot of fun along the way. Last month (Dec) was our highest traffic month to date, driven by the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge.

A big thank you to everyone who has been part of the community, and to our staff who helped turn an idea into a reality.

Here's to 2026!

~ @cyclone

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Current Stats

• Members: 331
• Posts: 8.2k

December 2025 Highlights

• Page Views: 2,637,674
• Unique Visitors: 162,321
• New Users: 22
• Posts: 1,402
• Data Served: 252 GB

Uptime

• 24h: 100%
• 30d: 99.96%
• 1y: 99.90%

Forum Traffic - 2025

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Forum Update: Small Bug Fixed

Thanks to one of our members who noticed something odd while browsing the forum using the German language setting. After a little digging, I found a bug in the Stats plugin default DE language config that caused a static domain to appear in the member statistics text:

.../languages/de/board-stats.json
{
 ...
"registered-members": ... Mitglieder sind bei <em>schoenen-dunk.de</em> registriert.",
...
}

The German language file for the Stats plugin had a hard-coded URL in the default board-stats.json configuration. Because the plugin is installed through the official NodeBB plugin manager, this quirk affects all forums running the same Stats plugin, so I suspect schoenen-dunk{.}de will be enjoying some unexpected extra traffic until this is fixed in the upstream GitHub repo.

The issue has now been corrected on our end and a PR submitted to NodeBB-Community so it can be corrected upstream.

DE Stats plugin showing static URL:

Upstream GitHub file:
https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-widget-board-stats/blob/master/public/languages/de/board-stats.json

PR submitted by cyclone:
https://github.com/NodeBB-Community/nodebb-widget-board-stats/pull/5

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Update: 2026/03/15 - GitHub PR#5 merged, upstream code fixed.