EDIT: Social Rumbles is back online! Yay! Go to https://socialrumbles.com/home/ to check it out!

Let me preface this by saying that it WAS NOT HACKED.

I repeat, NOT HACKED.

Ahem. Lemme explain.

Today at 3:45, I was moderating on RumbleChat when I noticed spam messages, I deleted them and thought nothing of them. They kept coming, so I deleted the guy who was making them (there were only 2 people online and I knew one of them so I deleted the other guy).

But he kept coming back.

Then at about 4:05, I saw these message:

Now was that me? No. So what did I do.... PANIC!

I immediately shut down the server, the websockets, everything. All shut down.

I had to this quick cuz I had swim at 4:20, so I did this quickly and went to swim.

Now, I don't know if I was high or something, when I shut down everything but uhh I was 100% NOT HACKED. Here's why.

While swimming I realized oh wait he didn't hack me. And here's why:

A) Nothing changed except new chat messages were made.
B) If he had hacked it, then wouldn't he make himself admin?

So whilst swimming I did some thinking and realized I was an idiot. He didn't hack it. He just created a web socket and then spoofed his username. This is all he did it:

chat = new WebSocket('wss://socialrumbles.com/dm/someroom');
chat.send({
# Whatever message/username he wanted!
});

So yeah I am a complete idiot. I didn't get hacked. No one is in danger. I just wrote my chat wrong.

This made me rethink my chatting app. I decided that there was too high a risk with sockets, and I am shutting it down until further notice. (I also don't have enough experience with it so I'm stopping it). I know that this wasn't a "hack" but I'm worried that there may be an actual exploit which is why I am removing it for the time being.

We may fix the chat app and rerelease it, but only after more experience with web sockets.

So what does this mean for you?

Well since I overreacted and shut down EVERYTHING, it'll take at least two days to get it up and running again. So ummm y'all will just get this jazzy 503 error until it starts running again, so sorry for overreacting!

Now that chat is being removed what can you do? Well you can do it's main, safe feature: posting. You can still post videos, articles, images, etc, once it starts running. And soon, after we remake the chat site and have some help, we may re add it.

For now, the site is going to be off until at least Saturday, and you all are safe. I just overreacted, and now here we are.