Hi everyone it's @LivingUKTaiwan here. Many of you may have noticed Pinmapple hasn't produced our daily #TravelDigest for a while. Don't worry we're still here, we haven't left you. It was our bad, we should have kept everyone updated on what's happening.
A couple of weeks ago Hive SQL was hacked, impacting many Hive tools and dapps that rely on it. Hive SQL is run by @arcange and he has been working nonstop since the hack to restore the service. Pinmapple relies on Hive SQL to pin your post on the map, and to generate the auto comment. We also use Hive SQL to pull all the pinned posts on Hive for us so we can curate the best travel content. With Hive SQL down, Pinmapple couldn't function as normal. Users didn't get the auto comment and we couldn't curate like we usually do.
During this period the team has been curating manually, but in the Pinmapple community only. Normally we curate all travel content from all communities on Hive as long as it's pinned on Pinmapple. With manual curation, it's impossible for the team to trawl through other communities looking for pinned posts. On our Pinmapple Discord channel, we suggested users post in the Pinmapple community whilst Hive SQL is down.
At that time we were hoping Hive SQL would be back online in a few days time. Now with hindsight, we probably should have announced this via a post as well. If you're not on our Pinmapple Discord, here's the invite link https://discord.com/invite/W2cWufK. It's the best way to reach us if you have any questions about Pinmapple.
Currently, Hive SQL is still being restored and according to @arcange it is estimated to be available next week. The actual availability is outside of Pinmapple's control. In the meantime please continue to pin your travel post on Pinmapple, and if you would like the opportunity to be curated by us, please note we can only do that if it's posted in the Pinmapple community. Pinning your post on Pinmapple is very easy.
- Go to https://www.pinmapple.com/
- Click on get code
- Find your travel location on the map and click on it
- You will see a code that starts with [//]:# (!pin.... Click on the code and copy and paste that to your post and post as normal
- The code must be in the exact format, and remember you need a new code every time for your travel location.
When Hive SQL is back up, you will get an auto comment confirming your post is pinned on the map, so expect a flurry of comments from us if you are an active Pinmapple user. And then, once we clear the backlog of posts from these few weeks, Pinmapple will be back up and running as usual. In the meanwhile, if you have any questions, drop us a comment below or hop onto our Discord server.
HiveSQL is back alive ;)
Wooow! That's great sir! Thank you so much for your effort sir🫶🫶
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We look forward to everything being okay as soon as possible. We always support the Pinmapple page. Those who try to hack will always fail because they will get stuck in the long run. @Pinmapple will constantly get better and stronger.👍👍🐝🐝
Thank you so much for the update. Thank you all for the effort of putting everything back on track! You rock!
It's arcange doing all the hard work, we're just waiting patiently....., but thanks for your support!
Ohh... that's why I didn't get any notification. Thank you for the information 🙏
We should have made a post earlier on about it, but still, better late than never
Yeah! Waiting for the comeback😊👍
A lot of services were relying on HiveSQL. I see the Leo people have their own alternative now. We need a distributed database :)
I need it for the Britlist, but I can wait.
Hopefully, there will be a solution going forward to avoid this happening again
I think it needs to various projects to work together and possibly provide some funding. The DHF may not be enough.
I did, indeed :) glad you’re getting back on track :)
Not quite back on track yet, but hopefully soon
Thanks for the update 😀 👍
You're welcome, we should have provided an update earlier on. Hate for people to think Pinmapple has left Hive quietly. No way!!! 😄
It is good to know the reason why the report was stopped and ep why the Pinmapple messages are not arriving. I figured something had happened. Thanks for keeping us updated
It's good to know we're missed 😄 Thanks for your support
Good, thanks for the info
You're welcome
Thank you so much for the update, pinmapple team. Really appreciated the team work to bring good support
Glad we can support the travel community on Hive
Go arcange go! 🤟🏻
Hope he gets the message 💪
Thanks for the update. I noticed that the collection have been down too. Good luck to @arcange and getting things up and running soon. Thanks for all the work.
Can't wait for Hive SQL to be back!
Thank you @sjarvie5
Thank you for the update...
You're welcome!
Nice to receive this update on Pinmapple's challenges and when Archange is hoping Hive SQL will be back online. Extra nice to hear, somehow, that all of our posts published since Hive SQL went down will retroactively have notification that it has been pinned!
Well, next week isn't that far away. Hopefully it will go as planned and all will be back to normal in the very near future.
In the past all the pins and notifications catch up when there were short outages hopefully it shouldn't be any different this time. We'll see next week
So happy you are back I asked also in travel feed discord when I noticed your disappearance ❣️
Feel free to jump on our Discord so you get all the updates and news directly from the Pinmapple team in future
Yes, we missed pinmapple updates, especially the travel digest. Glad it's okay.
Nice to know we're missed 😍
We really missed you @pinmapple. :) That is why there was no any notification I recieved about my pin maps. thank you for keeping us updated.
Thanks for thinking of us!
You're welcome.. ☺️
Hopefully all hacked systems can be repaired as soon as possible, I am very happy with the HIVE platform which continues to develop
Sadly hackers are everywhere 3v3n with all the best security,we really need to be very careful
Hopefully our system will be fine again and this platform can continue to develop
I was a little worried that something had happened😔
All good, we're not going anywhere, staying here to support the travel community as always!!
Great news! Hopefully the problem can be completely fixed in the near future. Yes, we miss pinmapple!
Thanks @tatdt , we hope things will be resolved soon as well
I know you are there and I know arcange is working well. I hope this problem will be solved as soon as possible, otherwise curation doesn't sound possible. You can't scroll every community as you said. Thanks a lot for the information ^^
We're curating on a limited basis, but it's good to still see a lit if people posting in Pinmapple
I was wondering about that too and went to the discord to check. Hope it'll get resolved soon😊
Hopefully it won't be long now
Lucky me I am on the discord channel and knew about this thing! Still sad to hear though as that happens but hacking is a serious problem and danger for anyone despite its activity and funds. Can't wait to see you back and running fully little pinmapple!
We should be back in a few days time, the Hive SQL was restored today
Happy to hear the good news 😊
Everyone deserves a vacation once in awhile😸 I noticed Arcange wasn't posting either.
Not that we want the hack to happen, but tTo be honest, it was nice to have a little break, as we spend a lot of time curating every day 😊
I'm not sure it was a vacation 😓
Well done for a successful return. It's been three long weeks for you and a lot of hard work to do...
It is true that I missed your #traveldigest comments. I hope you will solve the problem of SQL hack soon. Have a good day
If you read our message above, it's not for us to solve the problem, we don't manage the Hive SQL, we're just a user
In fact, I thought Pinmapple was down as I haven't got any support since the hack despite posting on Pinmapple. I hope evrything will be back soon.
Unfortunately, as explained we could only curate posts in the Pinmapple community during this period
Thanks a lot for the info! I hope everything will be fine soon! 👏 @arcange
Hive SQL is back up today, so hopefully everything will be back on track very soon
Greetings @pinmapple and @LivingUKTaiwan, now I understand why I don't get the notifications when adding the code to the posts; thanks for reporting, I hope that in the immediate future the situation will be resolved.
Have a great week!
Yes, we getting there!!
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I love the publications of this community, it is one that I identify with the most, all of us who like to photograph our walks and trips, stop by here to enjoy the content of other travelers.
I hope everything is resolved soon and it works 100% again.
We're back now!