Staying Safe During Spooky Month (and Anytime Else)

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Over the last two weeks, we’ve continued to work on and make breakthroughs with Project Knightune, plus we would like to take a bit of time to remind folks about how they can stay safe while on Discord and online. For more details, read on!

Project Knightune continues to make good progress behind the scenes with the successful implementation and integration of one of its core systems related to media management. Before moving on to any listener-facing items, we still have a couple more artist-focused functions that we’ll be working on first in order to bring the vision of this new platform to life. Afterwards, we’ll begin putting together the parts of the platform which most users will be able to see, and hopefully around that time we’ll have some more tangible things to share with everyone.

Now on to the safety stuff: this year, we’ve seen a handful of cases where staff and mods on our server needed to take action when it appeared a user’s Discord account may have been compromised. This can manifest in several ways including strange spam or DM’s from users who were otherwise normal or regulars in the community. Sometimes we can check-in via email (if you have the Listener or Indigo roles), but we’ve seen it happen in the past where the user’s email is also compromised around the same time.

We’d like to ask everyone (that means you) to take a moment and review a few things to help make themselves safer on Discord and the internet in general. Change your password if it’s been a while, consider enabling 2FA, and don’t click on suspicious links even if it’s from someone on your friend list. Those are some of the basics, but Discord’s put together a whole article that’s worth a read, or at least a skim. Go read it.

That’s all for this week! Don’t let the internet become too spooky for you, and thanks for listening!

[Knowledge #210]

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