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Songs of the Week Oct. 14 & Halloween Banner Voting
Hey everyone, before I give you the songs of the week I wanted to remind you we have a Halloween banner contest currently going on. Voting has begun and will be open until Oct. 16th 11:59pm servertime. Each person has 3 votes to put towards their favorite entries. The top 3 banners will be featured on the top of the site through Halloween. So make sure you get in the thread here and vote.
On to your songs of the week:
Miniboss
Musician: Makkon
Step Artist: Silvuh
Song Genre: Classical
Style: Orchestral
Difficulty: 54
Song Length: 1:44
Elusive Reaches
Musician: Ensiferum
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Melodic Death Metal
Difficulty: 63
Song Length: 3:23
Paraclete [Oni]
Musician: LeaF
Step Artist: ilikexd
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Sacred Art
Difficulty: 82
Song Length: 2:20
Enjoy!
Ongoing Site Maintenance
Over the next week, the Global Leaderboards, Skill Rating, and Normal Tokens may become temporarily inaccessible as we prepare some site updates!
Any scheduled downtime will be announced in advance.
edit: You may experience longer than usual load times on October 14th, between 2:00 AM – 2:00 PM (server time) as we perform site maintenance.
– PrawnSkunk and the FFR Development Team
Songs of the Week Oct. 7th
Here’s this weeks songs:
Blue (Ashix Remix)
Musician: Eiffel 65
Step Artist: Wayward Vagabond
Song Genre: Dance
Style: Electronic House
Difficulty: 29
Song Length: 2:20
Death Moon
Musician: SHK
Step Artist: DarkZtar
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Hard Techno
Difficulty: 70
Song Length: 2:39
Slashmaid
Musician: paraoka
Step Artist: ilikexd
Song Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock
Difficulty: 80
Song Length: 2:35
Enjoy!
Halloween Banner Contest & Token Special Batch
Want to help us decorate FFR for Halloween and possibly win a prize? Check out the Halloween Banner Contest running now. You can find all the details on how to enter and what you can win here.
I also wanted to remind everyone that we currently have a token special batch running. So far the submissions have been low and I’d really love to see some more activity on this so we can bring you more event tokens, as well as other tokens for you to achieve. Check out the thread here for all the information on that batch.
Songs of the Week Sept. 30th
The official tournament has been over for a little bit now so it’s time to welcome back songs of the week. We’re kicking this SOTW off with 3 new files for you.
burned down the ghost house and escaped spooks
Musician: cybermiso
Step Artist: Silvuh
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Glitch Hop
Difficulty: 56
Song Length: 1:55
Phantasy Story -Re:Start-
Musician: otokaz
Step Artist: Silvuh
Song Genre: Misc
Style: Wahoo Pop Remix
Difficulty: 59
Song Length: 2:07
DISCHARGE RUSH
Musician: ETIA. vs MM Sequence
Step Artist: LongGone
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Rotterdam Techno
Difficulty: 93
Song Length: 1:59
Enjoy!
Three Submission Rules Updates
Hello again,
Three additions have been made to the Rules/Submission Guidelines about issues that were not previously addressed. In summary they are:
1.) Stepartists receive their extended submission cap in the next open batch period.
2.) If there are two accepted files for the same song of similar difficulty, the file with the higher rating gets accepted and the other file discarded. The user of the discarded file gets a stepfile reimbursement for a future batch.
3.) Front Page Posts will be created any time the submission guidelines change.
Also if you haven’t already seen it, the Token Special Batch is open for submissions.
Updated User Event Rules & Introduction of Officially Backed Events
Hey there everyone!
I recently went through and did a little editing on the rules for events run by users. Prior, they were only being applied to tournaments; now they will apply to any user run event on the site. But what I’m most excited to present to you is the introduction of official backing for user run events. This is going to allow users to offer tokens and increased credit prizes in their events if they meet the requirements. I’m really hoping this will have us see an increase in the number of user events being run, as well as the number of people participating in them. You can find all the details for the updated rules, and official backing information in the thread here.
Updated Submission Rules
There is a new thread, Rules/Submission Guidelines, which covers the necessary steps for users who want to submit stepcharts to the game as well as the reviewing (judgment) process for the submissions. Previously the information was split across three threads and now it’s been consolidated into one thread.
In addition, the September/October 2016 Regular Batch is currently open for submissions until October 31st, 11:59 PM EST. Please be sure to follow the guidelines listed in the thread linked above. Remember to tune into the Batch Forum for more updates regarding stepchart submissions, and feel free to leave a question there if something is unclear.
Information Breach
Hello everybody.
As some of you may have seen from the forums, the website https://haveibeenpwned.com/ is reporting that there was a breach of FFR in February of this year, resulting in the compromising of Usernames, Email Addresses and IP information, as well as Salted MD5 password hashes. Further, the Vigilante.pw twitter feed claims that as of July of this year, a large majority of those accounts had their passwords successfully cracked into plaintext.
What this means for you is a couple of things. If you use your FFR password for any other websites or services, you need to change those passwords right away. We actually have no evidence on our side of this breach, but there’s no reason to doubt muiltiple sources reporting it, so we need to treat it like it is fact.
What it means for FFR passwords is a little more complicated. Some levelling with you is going to happen now.
Due to various issues (Mostly the non-profit nature of the site and the absence of Synthlight) it is unlikely that we’ll be able to upgrade the security architecture in any especially meaningful way. As well, while in 2008, salted MD5 hashes were fairly secure, that has become less so as time passes. We are investigating ways to store passwords more securely that are still compatible with our existing systems, but in the near-term in today’s information security climate, we have to basically be frank that we lack any especially compelling ways to secure your password.
Out of the salted hashes compromised in the breach, nearly 400,000 of them remained uncracked. Those were users who had very strong passwords. Even with the comparative ease with which MD5 can be cracked, sufficiently strong passwords are at least some deterrant to these attacks. So for FFR, like any and every other service you have with a password, your best bet is to use a password manager like KeePass to generate you very strong passwords unique to each source. If you don’t want to use something like that, the usual suggestions for strong passwords apply: a mix of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols, as long as possible, bearing no resemblence to any personally identifying words or phrases, and avoiding things like simple substitution (3 for e or 1 for i etc).
While we are definitely sympathetic to anybody who had passwords compromised that are used in any other places, please do understand that the first we heard about this breach was when it was posted in the forums, and investigation on our end needed to happen to try and confirm the reports, assess what happened, and try to figure out where we actually stood with regards to our options, and that we haven’t been trying to avoid, ignore or otherwise not address these issues by mostly remaining quiet up until now.
We apologise for the effort in changing passwords this is going to cause, and any alarm caused by our taking a few days to assess before saying something.
- Devonin and the FFR Team
