| damn its been years... but whatever, its finally back!!! |
| Yay, finally it is back. It is good to write in the forums again. Thanks to the staffs that is looking for improvement in the safety, i know it was sad to have the website offline but it was for a good reason. Now let's compensate the lost time o/ |
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| Yeaaaah, MAL is back!! Well, at least, we have the forums!! Some people were saying that MAL is dead and some switched to AniList. AniList is good but I like MAL much more. Thanks for the hard work! |
| BANZAI NIPPON. Nippon is the Land of freedom. Nippon is the Land of Peace. Nippon is the Land of Justice and Prosperity. In Nippon, we trust. We love Nippon, we love Anime. Anime love us, Nippon love us. 日本 |
| Woot, after months of waiting, the forum has finally returned. Props to the staffs maintaining and fixing the forum. |
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| Hello World! Looking forward to discussing obscure anime with myself! |
| only commenting because I dont remember what my forum picture was |
myanimelistllc said: haha, what?What about the API? MAL is concentrating on bringing the site back to its full functionality before work on the API can begin. At this time, the work on the API has not yet been scheduled, but we will provide an update later this month. 70 days later and you haven't even scheduled the work on the API, much less started actually working on it? Excuse my ignorance but what exactly have you guys been doing? At this point I'm asking myself what exactly your "ongoing security review" entails. 8 hour long daily coffee breaks, maybe? |
| *lampoons inwardly* |
| It's alive o.o |
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| well it sucks that it took 2.5 months to make this site fully working, but nonetheless, it's good to be back |
| Your hard work is much appreciated. |
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."- David Bowie |
Railey2 said: haha, what? 70 days later and you haven't even scheduled the work on the API, much less started actually working on it? Excuse my ignorance but what exactly have you guys been doing? At this point I'm asking myself what exactly your "ongoing security review" entails. 8 hour long daily coffee breaks, maybe? I agree, though I do wonder if there's something more to this than they're letting on. This whole thing about MAL being shut down due to a hole in their security makes me ask questions like "How big was this hole that made it a serious risk?" and "Why did no one catch this before?" The API shutdown coinciding with the EU regulations is suspicious, but which was the red herring? |
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MaxxV said: well it sucks that it took 2.5 months to make this site fully working, but nonetheless, it's good to be back The clubs are still down, but yeah... I'm glad the forums are back. |
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| Finally, now to wait on the API... |
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| FINALLY, us weebs cannot live without MAL YAY |
| Yay!! |
| Yeahhhh MAL is coming back to life!!! I hope that every thing goes well for MAL, and guys, please, do not force yourself! |
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| I'm glad the forums are back although I am not thrilled at the fact that they took the site down without warning and after 2 and a half months it's still not fully back. I know you mods are just as annoyed and confused as the rest of us. I am still waiting for the blogs to come back Mods, don't feel like you did anything wrong. We know you guys didn't know anything about this either and was just as surprised as the rest of use when the site went down. You would have warned us if you had known. You didn't fail us so please don't feel bad. Mod edit: Combined double posts |
ArdanazAug 9, 2018 4:34 AM
Finally! |
| When will clubs be accessible again? |
| Great news!, glad to have the forums back! |
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Lil-Bird said: Bippityboppitybo said: The last 2.5 months have felt like a filler arc This is the best shitpost on this forum discussion. Thank you. -Anokata said: only commenting because I dont remember what my forum picture was tehehehe Damn I forgot what it was like to be here... I wonder if any of my friends are still alive? :-/ what does a person even do here again? 0.o |
| ♫ やっと見つけた織姫様 だけどどこだろう彦星様 これじゃひとりぼっち ♫ "Just like my arms... can never be soft and warm, like yours are" |
| Nice to see the forums are finally back! Can finally discuss amongst ourselves again 😋 |
 “Don’t just mindlessly judge people as you please.” – Rin Okumura “Your past shouldn’t stop you from achieving your goals and dreams.” – Rin Okumura |
| It's About Time ! Felt like an eternity dude |
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| YAY! Finally the forum is back!!! :3 |
I . A M . D E A D ! C O N T I N U E ?  INSERT COIN |
| Nice, the forums is finally back up! |
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| Glad MAL's almost fully back as those were some dark days. |
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| I may have something on the back burner but between work, life, another project I've been working on for 2 years and me currently being on vacation it's going to take a bit. It's likely just going to be a one-off but I promise you that all your favorite characters will be there. |
| Hurray I missed you MAL |
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| Welp, time to resume boosting my post count every time I watch an episode. |
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| MAL, What took you so long? |
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| Welcome back MAL! <3 |
| I missed the forum games. Way too much free time. |
When I remember, I can still smell your scent, you and I are the same color perfume |
| Welcome back, Forums. There goes my free time again. |
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HotPocketRocket said: I missed the forum games. Way too much free time. Same bro, same. |
LudwigoatAug 8, 2018 5:22 PM
| FINALLY!!! I wasn't able to use the forum all that much when I first joined |
| it's been a while huh |
| Thanks for your apologies. I understand that the forum moderators and administrators can only do so much and in some cases do have their hands tied. Thank you for accepting responsibility and thanks to the developers for getting various parts of the sites back up. Now... As an infosec professional and software engineer, there are a couple of things that are difficult for me to just let slide. I would like to chime in a couple of points, and would greatly appreciate it if some of these critiques and questions can make their way to the "higher-ups." 1. What was the security vulnerability and what specific data points were compromised? Generally, when administrators force their users to change their passwords, it implies that some or part of the database or filesystem was compromised (as opposed to there existing some sort of minor vulnerability in the web application like XSS or CSFR). The reason I ask this is because I would like to know what other datapoints might have been compromised. Do your premium members and financial supporters have anything to worry about regarding their credit card / debit card information? If not, can you please elaborate on what the vulnerabilities were and what specific data points were compromised, and ultimately, elaborate on your reasoning to force password resets? 2. As a software engineer who has worked on critical systems that went down, we ALWAYS informed our customers exactly what was wrong, why, and provided daily ETAs. I was disgusted with myself as a developer that our services were down for 48 hours and had trouble sleeping over it. What is the reasoning for the lack of frequent communication? 3. To continue from point #2, I also find it really difficult to believe that a code review would take multiple months, unless you had one person doing it. I've worked with teams of less than 15 people on projects with tens of thousands of files. Nowadays with continuous integration, regression testing, unit testing, and common security auditing (with tools like tiger and nessus), can you please elaborate on the processes that were undertaken to solve the problems? The way that things were put back "piece by piece" make it sound like you are writing a brand new API as you go, contrary to some of the claims that are being made. 4. Last, what changes is MAL implementing in the future to make sure that: A) Future security incidents will be handled more professionally B) More frequent communication with users will be guaranteed C) More testing and security audits will be routinely conducted ? I hope I did not come off as rude or disrespectful. As an anime fan, I value this community greatly, and as a security professional and software engineer, found the response from MAL to be extremely unprofessional. I hope that moving forward in the future, things can change for the better. And if you guys need any help or volunteers, please post some volunteer positions or something. I would have loved to have provided any assistance that I could have to get you guys up and going faster. All the best, --Cryptotaku |
cwade12cAug 8, 2018 6:35 PM
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Itachi said: AYYY MAL BACK ESKETIT ESKETIT |
  come, you sweet hour of death |
The Forum is Back Online! I can't help but feel this is a mistake...j/k I suspect the code was full of SQL/XSS attack vectors. I have to say I am very surprised a company would take security seriously enough to shut down an entire site just after buying it. |
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| im glad to know forum is back! i used it for searching reference about people opinion on airing anime. |
 MAL score and most user-based rating system are all joke, Imagine trusting plebs and hivemind. Find users who have good sense and rating and use them as a reference. Check my guide to rate Your taste is trash. Cope, seethe, mald |
| Thanks for all your work! It sucks that it's been gone for so long and that so much of the discussion for the past months that could've taken place here either didn't take place or took place elsewhere, but this is a short blip, and hopefully nothing like this will happen again. Very glad that MAL is back. |
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