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

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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

[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

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