BrokenStones (BS): News

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September Newsletter


Hey, we have made it. With this, comes more information of where BS is going, along with rule updates and new competitions.


Last month's carrot, has now finished

It has been great to see many members, across all classes, post back in their forums, please, keep it up. BS is your home and your forum.


Torrent clients

The Blacklist of clients is very slowly being updated.

Added to the Blacklist are all versions of uTorrent 3

[Discuss here]

Image host update

Banned added to list see wiki

Added: radikal

Invites

Invites are a privilege and should be used carefully. Please read below.

We have had issues with members not knowing who they invite and then end up losing their invite rights.

Please read: rules

Also if you are aware of any Brokenstones invite threads on private trackers, can you flip d***** a PM. We are trying to bring them under Staff control. We have official invite threads on HDBits and Redacted.

Ratio Issues

We have been informed of members not showing their seeds and snatches correctly. We are looking into this.

Repacking to .dmg with APFS:

As you're aware Apple has introduced a new file system APFS (Apple File System) in High Sierra, which was developed to replace HFS+ (Mac OS Extended), introduced in 2001. This in turn can cause problems of compatibility, because APFS format is not supported on older OS X versions (APFS-formatted .dmg images are not mountable on older versions of macOS).

According to Apple's documentation:

APFS requires macOS High Sierra. Earlier versions of the Mac operating system don't mount APFS-formatted volumes.
Devices formatted as APFS can be read from and written to by:
- Other devices formatted as APFS
- Devices formatted as Mac OS Extended, if using macOS High Sierra


For example, a USB storage device formatted as APFS can be read by a Mac using High Sierra, but not by a Mac using Sierra or earlier.



Source:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018,
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208033

Based on this, for better backwards compatibility use the old format (HFS+) when creating new .dmg images. Or just compress your files into ZIPs.

Also, please make sure that disk image files that contain KGs, K'ed files (K) are in HFS+ as well.

! Checking file system:

- Using Disk Utility: Show

- Using Terminal: Show


Update your password

We have noticed that there a lot of members with very old passwords, we recommend that you should update them.

Competition Time

Hello to everyone,

We are excited to announce the Stylesheet contest. Why not add a little style to the site’s look? Come and join.

The contest will run from September 1, 2018 at 12:01 AM UTC until September 31, 2018 11:59 PM UTC (Scroll to the bottom of the page to find out what time is it in UTC right now).
3 winners will be chosen for voting, and Brokenstones community members (including contest participants) will have a week to vote for their favorite stylesheet.

General information:

Rules:

◦ The stylesheet should be fully functional
○ Gazelle friendly
○ Contestants may create as many stylesheets as they wish
○ Winners will be chosen by poll vote


Prizes:

First Place:

10 Freeleech tokens
3GB Upload Credit
Custom Usertitle


Second Place:

5 Freeleech tokens
1GB Upload Credit


Third Place:

3 Freeleech tokens


Handy Links:

forums

Good luck!!