I saw a section for original releases, so I posted a free, open-source program I developed, along with its GitHub link. It was deleted less than a minute later, with the reason given as “not software.”
It seems things haven’t been working out since they tried to make the place more legitimate. 52pj banned pj, and as the rules got stricter and stricter, the number of people seemed to drop quite a bit. After AI became widespread, it declined even further. It’s a real shame—it used to be a pretty good place.
I posted a link on this platform for getting free tokens and they banned me immediately. When I logged in, though, it said automated behavior had been detected. What a joke—the appeal link provided afterward was garbled, so I couldn’t appeal at all. I emailed the moderators to appeal, but they never replied, so I had no choice but to register a new account.
I figured everyone else could post, and their posts were pretty outrageous, but I got straight-up banned for just one sentence and one link. I’m pretty baffled.
Sigh, it got its start in the gray area of software cracking, and after it became popular, the fact that the forum is still alive in an environment like this is already a miracle.
I just signed up for 52 today, but it feels like I can’t get anything going there. It really is a relic of a bygone era—I feel like I can’t use it, and that my account will probably be deleted after a while.
That guy ran into the same problem as me. I stopped browsing there ten years ago and found that I didn’t miss out on anything—there wasn’t even any real need for it. Not like Nodeloc, where one day apart feels like three autumns.