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I think you can put it in graveyard too, now.
So many websites I didn't even try

Yep.

Marked as dead since the domain is parked somewhere now.

Website is back...

[EDIT #1] 2025-12-22
...was ok in the beginning (I was able to log in), but it is in trouble now with a lot of 404

[EDIT #2] 2025-12-26
Website looks toasted now with a fake CloudFlare Windows+R Powershell attack...

[EDIT #3] 2026-01-01
Website is back ! (I'm able to log in)

Quote from Ketza

Dec 21, 2025 - 07:57:45

Website is back

I confirm the website is accessible, but it is using an expired certificate at the time of this writing.
I don't have an account there and have not tried creating one though, so I can't be sure if it's fully functional.

Quote from Ketza

Dec 21, 2025 - 07:57:45

Website is back...

[EDIT #1] 2025-12-22
...was ok in the beginning (I was able to log in), but it is in trouble now with a lot of 404

[EDIT #2] 2025-12-26
Website looks toasted now with a fake CloudFlare Windows+R Powershell attack...

[EDIT #3] 2026-01-01
Website is back ! (I'm able to log in)

same situation like hacker.org. website is up, but submitting solutions not working (just tried the ones I left).

This should be reactivated.
The site was down completely recently, but I contacted the maintainer and he fixed it within two days.
If submission doesn't work, I'd expect that has also fixed it if someone tells him.

The site is indeed reactivated, thank you;
Submission however still doesn't work when the answer is good (error 500).
Forum returns error 500 as well.

I wrote the maintainer again about that.
But either way the site should probably be reactivated here, or allowed to linke disable pages.
I cannot link it even with the request manipulated with the TIL ID, as offline pages cannot be linked.

Hi everyone

t0mmy9, the maintainer here. Thanks again for getting in touch Vampire. I'm surprised people are still using this funny site after all these years. This started as a project I made with a Greek friend I met on MSN messenger when I was around 14 who was also into hacking (S0wL). I wonder what he's up to these days. It really blew up for a short while when someone posted it to StumbleUpon (anyone remember that?) It did get me into paid web development/software career too which I am grateful for.

If anyone still experiences server errors etc please let me know and I'll try to fix them when I get a sec. I'll bookmark this link and check it out now and again.

I'll try to migrate this onto better hosting in the near future, it seems that MariaDB runs out of memory and dies over time these days and needs a reboot. I already have some other better resource servers I could move it over to.

I switched from custom-coded forums to a dedicated open-source forum package and it instantly became the target of spam so I intentionally killed that part of the site, I regret doing that now.

Thanks for keeping this alive and keep hacking!

Hi all and hi t0mmy9,
just to let know: yesterday I tried to register and got the green sentence stating that the activation email has been sent.

After a while (still no activation email) tried to login, but as supposed got a red sentence stating something like: "Invalid username or account not activated."... or so. Today tried to login again, same answer.

Then I thought, hmm... let's try to register once again, but when trying this the server responds with 500 Internal Server Error.