Aw. Not again.
I lost some dear accounts I've built legally (except for the multi account part) the last time they did that :s
It'll take literally 2 minutes for any programmer at Neo to download any of our programs and check what they do, if this "arms race of counter-coding" hasn't happened yet is because Nickelodeon didn't give a fuck about it, they just wanted to make money with NC and tolerated a little cheating.
Jumpstart is stepping up their game, as I said this is not to stop cheaters but to stop hackers scanning for unchanged passwords from the leak. We're just bystanders hit by a stray bullet.
Keeping quiet about what we know? What do we know? That they're using Stackpath's CDN, they could be using Cloudflare just the same. Do you see people conspiring to bypass cloudflare? No, it's all publicly available. Just deobfuscate the javascript they inject and emulate it.
This isn't a game changer, this is old, bots where always supposed to emulate a real person browsing the web, it's just that we could be lazy because TNT didn't have any way to check for that and what little they used to check for/stop bots was bypassed easily and publicly (e.g dark pixel in shop captchas or inserting an hidden image that makes a request to a specific URL, this last one coders didn't even bother to emulate, so you can see how little TNT cared).
Technology evolves and now they have solutions readily available to try and stop botters, so every user here should know before they use a program all willy-nilly.
Aw. Not again.
I lost some dear accounts I've built legally (except for the multi account part) the last time they did that :s
The absolute lack of professional communication and support on Neopets should be embarassing to them, especially considering how much they rely on constant revenue streams from users pouring money into their NC Mall, not even going into premium.
It would take 5 minutes to compose a statement about server transitioning and what it would impact and an estimated timeline for stability, but apparently their paying userbase hasn't even earned that.
Forget testing this stuff on the back end before dumping it into the wild like Joe suggested.
Tremendously infuriating. I genuinely appreciate all the updates and additional info the minds here have put forth, though, and I'm sure in the end we'll make the best of it.
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Time to wait and see if there�s some fun lag to churn out some dupes lol
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Thanks so much for keeping us all posted! Personally doing recommended best practice from our programmers and disable the few daily bots I have going until we know what's what.
Echoing the frustration around the total lack of transparency on legitimate channels and general fuckery with live production testing.
♥ PrettySarcastic ♥ (09-09-2019)
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Odd again
Thanks for being the best, Odd.
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Bat (09-10-2019)
This is so annoying, scripts and bots have made playing Neopets better for me.