Sunday, Facebook was again hacked; this time megashot.net’s Macro page
was taken over by someone else. The page belongs to Cyrus Khamak and he
had himself and I as administrators. When he found out he could not
access the admin. tools, he asked me to help him but I then found out
that I was also removed as admin. As I understand the situation, after
some sleuthing Cyrus found who the thief was and cajoled them into
giving his his site back.
The Megashot pages–there are several
covering different genres–are very popular with Facebook members and
anytime something on the net becomes popular, green jealously pops up
and begins trying to find ways to make other people’s lives as miserable
as theirs. Mostly, Cyrus has done all the hard work to make Megashot
possible along with the Facebook pages which allow more people to have
their artwork and photographs seen by more people. However, there have
been several more of us helping out in our limited ways trying to make
the best photo site on the net even better. Some of us were there
testing features as they were coded and placed into the main body to
make sure they worked like they were supposed to and that they got along
with the other features; many times they didn’t and had to be debugged
more than once. Finally, after two years of building and testing, Cyrus
presented the site to the public in a “Beta” form, meaning we were still
testing and things might not all work and and there could be outages.
Now, as Cyrus works to bring version two of megashot.net into reality,
photographers and artists should support his efforts by sending him a
kind word of appreciation; after all, not one member has been asked to
pay any money to use and enjoy the site.
All any of us ask is respect for the huge
site and the ongoing effort that went into making Megashot and its
satellite Facebook pages a reality and successful. Hacking isn’t nice.
Thank you.
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