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Hello everyone! cdd has been hard at work updating our fleet of sites. Whenever so much time is spent pouring over and updating old things, there are always some things that you think, "Should this come forward with everything else?" This time around, we gave a lot of thought to, and have decided to retire the following: 1. Alpha Coders Creator Sellable LicensesIf content was part of the Alpha Coders Creator program, you could let people buy licenses to that content for a price. This is separate from getting paid for views on your content! What the issues were:
The first issue is effectively the main one. We spent a good amount of moderator time making sure our offerings were legitimate. But I personally wouldn't trust any other wallpaper site, so the ecosystem within our niche just isn't there. Alternatives:
Some users have extra ACP - I made some mini games as a sink so people could have fun with their extra ACP What the issues were:
I'm not supporting the ACP Mini Games very well right now. Part of that is me spending a lot of time on Space Abyss - part of it is a massively increased workload due to distance learning. I LOVE the idea of little fun things that users can do to spend extra ACP. So I would expect this concept/idea to move forward in some form, but there aren't firm plans right now Alternatives:
Thanks for your understanding everyone! David West
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By DavidWest 1 month ago ago |
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What are captions? Captions can be a description of an image. Either going for accuracy, or even being funny (but relevant). Scoring page: https://alphacoders.com/contest/score/87 I wish everyone the best! |
By DavidWest 1 month ago ago |
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Below is a list of the Space Abyss updates in the last couple of months. If you want to see each update as they come, you can visit https://space.alphacoders.com , or check out our Discord!
## [0.2.10] - 2020-11-2 ### Added ### Changed
## [0.2.9] - 2020-10-28
### Added ## [0.2.8] - 2020-10-26 ### Added ### Fixed ### Changed ## [0.2.7] - 2020-10-23
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### Fixed ### Changed ## [0.2.3] - 2020-09-30
### Changed ## [0.2.2] - 2020-09-23
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## [0.2.0] - 2020-08-29
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By DavidWest 2 months ago ago |
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You're spot on, it's usually SMS hijacking via social engineering. Mostly you see this with high value targets; they'll call up support and verify enough with the support tech that they get the number switched to a different phone. If a service only offers SMS, it's really not something to be super worried about. But if a service offers 2FA through multiple means, the general recommendation is to use an authenticator app if offered. |
By DavidWest 3 months ago ago |
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Nuyube, I'm sorry you had to go through all that; security breaches snowball really fast. Quick note for those that aren't going to read the entire thing. The BEST thing you can do on Alpha Coders is to have a strong and unique password. As far as Alpha Coders and two factor authentication goes, it's something that we could add in the future, but don't see a huge need right now. I know that might sound odd in a response to a well written experience like yours. Also a side note, 2FA through Authy or Google authenticator is MASSIVELY better than 2FA through SMS. Anyways: Alpha Coders isn't generally a huge target, for a variety of reasons. We take measures to prevent brute forcing of passwords. So even if an attacker thought you used the same password on multiple sites, brute forcing via Alpha Coders is not going to be a viable way to go about it. There will be logins that are far more lenient behind the scenes. We also don't feel we are a high or medium priority target. We don't store much information beyond just an email. No financials, not really much of 'value' to an attacker. By far the most value would come from attacking Alpha Coders as a whole, rather than an individual here. Either for mass harvesting, or ransomware, so we put a lot of focus and effort there. Keep in mind we're a small team, so we do end up having to put focus in specific areas. For a site like ours, I'm of the opinion that we do an above average job utilizing best practices (most of this happens behind the scenes). But 2FA is definitely something on our radar if it becomes prudent. |
By DavidWest 3 months ago ago |
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Hey everyone! The special raffle for the month of October is an Author Contest!To enter, all you need to do is add author information to the content you submit, or to content already on the sites! Responsible discovery and sharing is an important goal of Alpha Coders. We like to reward user activities that make both our site and the rest of the internet a better place - and we greatly appreciate everyone who joins in! The scoring url: https://alphacoders.com/contest/author-score Let me know if you have any questions! |
By DavidWest 3 months ago ago |
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Alexis, Sometimes the machine learning models will get it wrong. You can always request a review. We then use that data to improve the model. |
By DavidWest 4 months ago ago |
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RolloBollo, Having to wait for a moderator approval is normal until you become a trusted user. If you receive any private messages about changes to your submissions, try and take note, and you'll be a trusted user in no time! |
By DavidWest 4 months ago ago |
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Hello everyone! For the month of September, we are going to have a special contest for tagging! You earn points by tagging either your content, or other content on Alpha Coders. Please make sure that you follow the tag rules. Tags should be relevant to the image. The point of the contest is not to spam low effort tags. https://communities.alphacoders.com/topics/view/6766 Low effort/spammy submissions will immedidately disqualify you from the contest, and potentially get your account banned. You can find our scoring page at : https://alphacoders.com/contest/tag-score
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By DavidWest 4 months ago ago |
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Hello everyone! Today we've started moving our traffic through Cloudflare's network. Cloudflare's network is designed to filter out more bot traffic than we previously filtered out. What does this mean for me? Hopefully, it doesn't impact you at all! It is possible that if you view hundreds and hundreds of pages, you may be presented with a captcha. It is also possible that if you use a VPN, Tor, or other anonymizing sources, you may be impacted. Why make this change? As unfortunate as it is - there's the real possibility that bots are having a really big impact on our traffic quality, and putting us in a bad spot with our advertisers. No advertisers, no $$$. It's a pretty simple equation for a free site. This hasn't been completely verified, but it's what I believe is going on. Hey - I have a bot that relies on your site! What about me? If you use our API: That will still work the same as normal! If you scrape pages outside of the API: Please use our API! https://wall.alphacoders.com/api.php is 100% still active. Even if your bot can't access user pages, it will still be able to access our api! 150,000 free queries/month is a lot! I personally don't have a problem with anyone scraping the site in nearly any fashion - but the negative impact I'm currently seeing is completely unprecendented, and I absolutely have to try this route. Please let me know if this negatively impacts you. Thank you for your understanding. |
By DavidWest 4 months ago ago |
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Another month, another batch of updates! You can keep more up-to-date with our Discord channel! ## [0.1.28] - 2020-08-20
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## [0.1.26] - 2020-08-11
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## [0.1.23] - 2020-07-27
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By DavidWest 5 months ago ago |
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For me... it's just plain Sonic. Gotta go fast! |
By DavidWest 5 months ago ago |
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farhana nusrat, You just need to enter information into the category and subcategory field when submitting content and then hit 'Add/Submit Info and Refresh' |
By DavidWest 5 months ago ago |
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What are captions? Captions can be a description of an image. Either going for accuracy, or even being funny (but relevant). Scoring page: https://alphacoders.com/contest/score/81 I wish everyone the best! |
By DavidWest 5 months ago ago |
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I'm pretty excited about the new Pokemon Snap announced for the Nintendo Switch. I hope it's decent😃 |
By DavidWest 5 months ago ago |