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"Year In Review (2023)" Article Now Posted

Posted by Merit Celaire on Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 02:06 PM

This afternoon, everyone; I have managed to finally get our latest "Year in Review" article written up looking back at all the music operations related activity that was involved for both featured Mario game installments and the Super Nintendo instrument sets called on for doing covers for the previous 2023 year. So what Mario games stood out to us during that time? And what featured Super Nintendo music instrument set claimed the "winner's circle" this time around? You'll be able to find out those answers by heading to here. Take care for now, everyone.

"Discord Portal" Invite Link Request Form Temporarily Closed Due To "Account Access/Hacking" Issues

Posted by Merit Celaire on Monday, January 29, 2024 - 03:03 PM

And now the second post to elaborate on the next major hurdle that is staring yours truly in the face and has me more than quadruple furious since last Wednesday.

Here's the situation: during the course of last Wednesday from the Discord platform as a whole, there has been news that there have been some literally super evil adversarial forces who have been hacking user accounts to take them over and infect them with viruses/trojans in hopes to wreak havoc on a large amount of their "victims". The thing is, these latest adversarial forces in question have been posing as Discord "Trust and Safety" personnel via the "Direct Messages" process in the hopes that the users will respond to apparent "reports" regarding the status of their accounts.

Unfortunately, yours truly was one of those "victims" in question; as a result, my respective account itself on the Discord was hacked and I cannot access it at all. I only became aware of this horrible mousetrap operation when other online friends of mine outside of these operations informed me that the instigator behind this so called attack and hacking on my account locking me out of it was also trying to "mousetrap" everyone on my friends list in hopes that their accounts will be infected with this apparent virus/trojan and lock them out of their accounts too!

All of the above has in no doubt infuriated yours truly to no end upon being aware that I was literally "mousetrapped" by the so-called Discord user responsible for this overall mess on the platform who was posing as a Discord "Trust and Safety" member in DMs! And now, as I stated earlier, because of my account being hacked, I cannot log into it at all; plus, I cannot even check our music operation's "Discord Portal" server at this time.

Which also brings me to this announcement itself: until further notice (and especially after I've gotten official follow-ups from the real "Discord Trust and Safety" personnel to assist in this crisis and get my account itself back and do any necessary repairs needed; they are already aware about my situation via a support ticket that I filed upon becoming notified that my account was hacked and that I was severely violated and duped by an apparent cyber criminal at work), the respective "Discord Portal Temporary Invite Link Request Form" has been temporarily taken offline. My only hope is that we won't have to wait that long for the Discord Trust and Safety personnel to get back to me in due time regarding their efforts in resolving this case with my overall Discord account as a whole, although I know that this will take time since apparently I'm not the only one who's fallen for this horrifying mousetrap in an effort to compromise accounts.

I will of course definitely keep you all posted when I do receive word about my account being successfully recovered; when the necessary repairs have been done afterwards, we'll see about getting this respective "Discord Portal" Invite Link Request form back in action again on the site. Not to mention that the person who did this severe damage to my Discord account itself will be reported because not only is this completely unacceptable, it is a cyber criminal act as well. And I'm going to make sure that the same "Discord Trust and Safety" personnel gets word of the evidence I've gathered that led to the aforementioned damage because the so-called users can not and are not going to get away with this; their day with law enforcement will be coming resulting in their being taken to and thrown in jail.

I do apologize for the long occasional rant in this announcement, but that's just how serious this matter itself is. You are able to see about contacting me via other means including our main email contact form, following us on Twitter, joining us on SoundCloud, or joining our IRC chatroom on EsperNet if you have any further questions about this announcement itself. I'm gone for now.

And We're FINALLY Back Online; Got A Lot Of Catching Up To Do

Posted by Merit Celaire on Monday, January 29, 2024 - 01:16 PM

Nope, faithful friends/followers of these music operations as a whole, you are not reading that title wrong. Yours truly has been dealing with one of the biggest hurdles in the history of these endeavors to date; as you all are much well aware, this entire home base website's respective hosting account was temporarily suspended due to the monthly traffic allotment under it having already exceeded the 5 GB threshold under AwardSpace's "free hosting client" status (resulting in your not able to see this website itself for the majority of this month's second half). I knew that on the backend, I had to take action to see about getting the respective account upgraded before the month is out because I have a very strong feeling that if this wasn't done before next month arrives, we'd all run into this same kind of crisis again and that's something that I don't want to see happen for a third time.

I've yet to recheck on any differences that have been implemented in regards to our hosting account now with AwardSpace, but this much is certain: as of the date and time of this posting, the respective hosting account in question has now been updated to the "paid client status" (and my conscience is telling me that if I'm not wrong, this was the kind of case and route that the AwardSpace folks were hoping that I would take). So now, this "paid hosting client" status is in effect for our home base website for up to one year in which I'll make sure to renew in due time.

Once again, I'll see about making a seperate post in regards to any changes in restrictions from the website side after I've done more investigation on the backend. But my first assumption would have to be in regards to communication abilities related to it for the most part.

I'll keep you all posted; until then and on a side note, this is one of the "major hurdles" that I've had to deal with during the course of this latter part of the month, as mentioned earlier. But there's another major hurdle that apparently some super evil adversarial forces just had to throw at yours truly, and here's a hint: it's resulted in one of our online forms for this site having to be taken offline for a temporary period. More on that in another posting later on either tonight or tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Keeping Close Tabs On Our Hosting Account's "Bandwitdh Allotment"

Posted by Merit Celaire on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 - 07:03 PM

Good evening again, friends; just to give you all a heads-up on what's been going on from the backend site traffic activity wise - recently, I've been checking our respective hosting account from the folks at AwardSpace and noticed that we're slowly getting to the point where our monthly bandwidth allotment for January is about to run out before we reach the middle of this month already (since our respective AwardSpace hosting account is in the "free status", we're only given a 5 GB monthly bandwidth allotment).

This already has me concerned since we ran into this same case when our hosting account ran out of its bandwidth allotment approximately one to two weeks before November of last year came to a close (as was elaborated on further on this post).

At this time, I'm currently weighing my options on the backend because we're trying our best to avoid history repeating itself this month (and especially since we're just starting a brand new year) - apparently, I need to see about resolving this site hosting matter first before I get back to music operations content update related matters in general; the choices are either do nothing and let the bandwith run out causing this site to be inaccessible (again), or initiate a "paid upgrade status" attempt to remove the majority of "restrictions" (which also includes the lifting of the "monthly bandwidth allotment" restriction in question). And it looks like the AwardSpace hosting staff is hoping that I'll choose the latter in due time.

Note this does not mean that I'm giving up this site and/or these operations in a long shot. But I'm just waiting for my next funding to come in shortly so I can review my options again in the next few days with hopes this first "site hosting challenge" will get resolved shortly. Will keep you all posted; stay tuned.

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