Yo, Arkshine as byplt mentioned, someone mass-edited the entire website maps to be system-only making them non-downloadable and replaced all author info

03-22-2025 at 4:55 AM

ParaBolt:

byplt ran a script to make all maps re-downloadable

03-22-2025 at 4:55 AM

God Of Gaming:

Hi Arkshine, many years ago you taught me how to code amxx plugins on allied modders, glad to see you're still doing well

03-22-2025 at 9:26 AM

rUsHnUt:

@Arkshine: You mean PM ( private message )? If yes, is it still needed?

03-22-2025 at 4:07 PM

rUsHnUt:

I'm now busy changing the vanilla maps of each (sub)game back to system map.
Though only for Half-Life 1.

03-22-2025 at 4:15 PM

Arkshine:

No need rUsHnUt, thanks!
Well, I guess we are [*]ed. I don't think I have access to a recent backup. I can restore surely a large part, though.

I really don't understand why someone would do that.

03-22-2025 at 7:29 PM

Arkshine:

hi, God Of Gaming

03-22-2025 at 7:49 PM

ribcage:

Hi. The author of all maps became "pHqghUme", Googling it makes it seem like it's some kind of a default name in databases. All this happened probably due to a database error. But still, allowing anyone to change the metadata of any map is a disaster waiting to happen.

03-22-2025 at 8:22 PM

rUsHnUt:

Oh boy we are royally screwed.
Djeez, who would have thought such a thing to happen...
Whether you choose to restore the large part or not, thanks regardless Arkshine.
P.s.: Restore, are you talking about the map author thing, the categories or both?

03-22-2025 at 8:29 PM

rUsHnUt:

pHqghUme is also a name of a virus when under the form of an exe-file. Following info is copied from a website: "it allows attackers to remotely access the computer to take sensitive data including passwords and banking information."

03-22-2025 at 8:37 PM

Arkshine:

Yes, I have an old SQL dump, I can restore author, category, etc of a large part of maps. But, yeah, it's old. Not sure how many news maps have been added since then. Better than nothing.

03-22-2025 at 9:03 PM

byplt:

i have some infos for all maps if you need, (Link)

03-22-2025 at 9:33 PM

Arkshine:

Looking at the dump, I can restore almost 100k maps. Will see if I can fix the security hole as well.

@byplt: sure, if you have a dump of these info, that would help.

03-22-2025 at 9:38 PM

byplt:

pm sent

03-22-2025 at 9:57 PM

Arkshine:

I've restored 100K maps for now.
Website should be faster, I cleaned up a few things.

Yesterday at 12:34 AM

Arkshine:

There is something like the latest 1630 maps that I can't recover the author infos.

Yesterday at 1:00 AM

Arkshine:

Edit a map should be restricted now to original uploader, modo and admin.

Yesterday at 3:12 AM

deepeyes:

wow, great!

Yesterday at 8:36 AM

FIXXOR:

some maps do mention their author in their readme but now they'll be listing bypit instead :P

Yesterday at 2:23 PM

FIXXOR:

I think the site previously automatically assigned the author based on what it read in the readme? like inputing the string that came right after the first "by", at least that was my impression

Yesterday at 2:26 PM

God Of Gaming:

I'm planning to use the several sources of reverse-engineered cs 1.6 source code, to make my own cs 1.7, with modernized gameplay mechanics, truckloads more guns, all the best maps, and different factions and guns per map. This is why I've been struggling to download everything here for the past 5 years, so I can then go trough it and select all the best maps for my cs 1.7

Today at 7:03 AM

rUsHnUt:

Can anyone re-edit this map to be downloadable?
Before Arkshine restricted editing I mistakingly put this map as a system map.
I'm not 100% sure it actually is since I don't have cz installed to check.

Today at 12:19 PM

rUsHnUt:

Or even better, if it's possible to grant me mod access?
I'm planning to edit author for those 1630 maps as long as I can find a name in the txt-file ofcourse.
I can do this while @ work when my machines are running ( I have a pc at my workplace ).

Today at 12:25 PM

FIXXOR:

@God of Gaming I hope you made significant progress in those 5 years, because filtering so many maps by yourself seems like a gigantic timesink lol

Today at 1:15 PM

Arkshine:

@rUsHnUt sure, done.
I will add advanced users for those can edit as well.

Today at 2:49 PM

rUsHnUt:

Thanks Arkshine.
You can put me to advanced users if you wish.
There are people here that probably deserve this title ( moderator ) more than I do, simply because of their overall experience being more than mine.
As long as I can edit stuff it's ok to be just advanced user but if you want to keep me as moderator it's also fine

Today at 5:13 PM

FIXXOR:

can I get advanced user too? I did edit the author of some maps in the past for better filtering

Today at 5:34 PM

rUsHnUt:

I tried editing the author of a map but no success.

Today at 7:42 PM

LiveWire:

Edit not working for me either

Today at 8:27 PM

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