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This website is now accessible as a Tor hidden service.
 
http://f63rmp7hhtw6sk3tkptmbfhsbeeureuznffvi5gpzolq2xbf6znq66ad.onion

# Arete.network Warrant Canary
                          
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This website ([arete.network](https://arete.network/)) has never received:
                          
* National Security Letters of any type.
                          
* Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders
                          
* Requests from any law enforcement agency or other entity for any sort of backdoors.
                          
* Subpoenas and/or search warrants
                          
* Gag orders
          
* Any requests from law enforcement agencies or courts whatsoever
                          
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Effective as of the last creation or edit time of this post.
                          
This will be updated semi-regularly and with each major update to the server software.
                          
Last updated: July 30, 2024 (server ver 4.1.1)

Polls are now a thing. They are available as a new post type and enabled by default on all existing boards.
 
You may also optionally open them to unregistered users.
 
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[Canary](https://arete.network/b/Meta/p/2239/canary)

Note that this is still a work in progress, so expect some things to not work as expected or potentially break entirely. In the worst case scenario I will revert the site to its current state. More changes may be coming in the next few days.
 
The main part of this update are technical changes that would likely not interest you, namely the rewrite of a significant portion of the backend code, database structure, logging system and protocols for interprocess communication. This project may become open source when this update is complete.
 
There are however some other additions:
 
 - A shorter page header which should improve the user experience on mobile
 - Some button icons were changed, minor color scheme tweaks and an entirely new spritesheet file
 - Chat now supports Markdown formatting (with the same syntax as elsewhere)
 - Dropdown menus on posts, comments and chat messages to remove clutter
 - You no longer have to be the owner of a chatroom to manage its whitelist
 - The ability to block users
  
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[Canary](https://arete.network/b/Meta/p/2239/canary)

it disappeared

* Chats are now sorted alphabetically
* Renamed some chatroom categories
* Chats with *Public access* turned on are now listed regardless if the user has been granted access
* Added a button to the message the owner when banned from a chat or not whitelisted
* The chat button now displays the number of chats with unread messages instead of the total count of unread messages.
* Bugfix: All alerts are now cleared when a chatroom is banned for ToS violations
* A proper error page is now shown when attempting to access banned chatrooms
* Added an alphabetic sorting option to the [list of boards](https://arete.network/boards)
* Added status icons to boards in the list (closed/private/delisted)
* Delisted boards should no longer appear in b/all
* Added filtering to all moderation logs and the [admin action log](https://arete.network/adminlog)

Due to some changes regarding how attachments across the site are handled (both in chat and on boards), a bug was introduced in the latest update preventing you from submitting anything except image posts.
 
This should now be fixed.

Support for API keys has been added as well as documentation for a good amount of existing endpoints.
 
https://arete.network/dev/
 
If you wish to gain access to the API options page from your user menu, enable developer options in [your settings](/settings/).

People who opted to keep their passwords when deactivating accounts can now recover them. This does not bring back deleted content. Anything deleted is gone for good.
 
Password reset is now possible provided that you have configured a recovery email.
 
 
The recovery email is stored as a salted hash, in the same way as your password.

* Added board filters (AutoModerator). The filter option in board settings is now fully functional.
 
* More granular controls for chat alerts. You can now limit alerts to @username mentions and replies.
 
* Sound alerts in chat can now be turned off.

There was an issue preventing posts from submitting. That's been fixed.

Boards are now ordered by recent activity instead of their subscriber count.
 
Activity is defined as the number of posts and comments in a rolling 48 hour window, with a post being worth 5x more than a comment.
 
Large boards such as b/ConsumeProduct may be absent from the list until they get populated with new content.