Forum Updates

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

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

cyclone

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

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

cyclone

Scheduled Host Maintenance

Our host will be performing scheduled maintenance that requires a reboot of the VPS hosting hashpwn.

During this maintenance, the forum and related hashpwn services will go offline temporarily. Expected downtime is less than 30 minutes, although we have not been given an exact ETA for when the reboot will occur.

This notice is just to give everyone a heads up.

cyclone

Scheduled Host Maintenance

Our host will be performing scheduled maintenance on our server next week which will cause the forum to be temporarily offline for approx 30 minutes. No specific day was given by the host, but expect the forum to be unreachable for a few minutes sometime within the next few days.

cyclone

Note to all new accounts:

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You must react to that DM within 48 hours of receiving it to acknowledge that you have read and agree to follow the forum rules.

Failure to do so will result in your new account being banned.

Example DM:

Welcome to hashpwn!

Make sure to read through the forum rules here:
https://forum.hashpwn.net/post/31

Once you've read through the rules, react to this message within 48 hours to verify that you agree to follow all forum rules. Failure to do so will result in your account being banned.