>>81655411>after MSPaint Forums crashed and bled out.I fucking wish. Let me tell you the tale of the incompetence that is the MSPA forum team
See, this isn't a crash. The forums were hacked. Some fuck managed to get the password to the server but didn't seem to actually know how to use code. At first, the only thing that got taken down was the main page. The entire page was bare save, in plan text, the words "Change your passwords! THEY'VE BEEN COMPROMISED" and a day later to the words "Under maintenance, be back soon."
Keep in mind the entire rest of the forum was still up. This went on for I think five days. A thread in the administrative forum went up asking what the hell, chronicling the story of a man trying his damnest to take down a website and learn CSS at the same time.
So, naturally, the users contacted the forum admins hoping to stop this guy. I mean, he hadn't actually done anything in five days. That's plenty of time to change a server password right?
Wrong apparently. Nobody on the mod and admin team can contact the person in charge. Despite having all the warning in the world, this guy gets to brute force his way into killing the forums without a finger being lifted to stop him
So people start trying to contact the What Pumpkin Team. Apparently they could only contact a friend of a friend, and the only answer they could get out of them is the two word response "They're gone." leading people to assume the forums are gone forever. So naturally people got a bit upset on Tumblr. They complained not only that the forums are dead, but absolutely nothing has been stated on the matter by anyone in charge. No "We're working on it" or "we are aware it even happened." Just silence.
Until a week later an alledged throwaway accout by a WP team member posted what amounts to "I didn't read your post and well founded complaints, but we're working on it. Don't be entitled and demand that we update you." We have no idea if the account is legit
