If you see weird pics of ladies with dubious links posted on your blog out of the blue, here’s a step by step way of stopping this and preventing it from happening again that I think might work.

Important : this only works if you can still access your blog!

Changing your password is important, but it won’t do you any good if your hacker still has an opened session on your blog and can still access it. So the first thing you wanna do is close your hacker’s session.

For that you need to go in your blog’s settings:

On the new page opened, scroll all the way down. There, you can see something called “Active Sessions“. The first and oldest one (”current session” in green) should be yours, the new one should be the hacker’s session. To close your hacker’s session, click the gray X next to it.

Now that their session is closed, they can’t access your blog anymore unless they enter the password again.

So don’t lose time, go all the way back up and change your password immediately. Make also sure your hacker didn’t change your email address.

Now you should be safe from your hacker. But it won’t prevent you from getting hacked again.

If you really want to be safe from hackers, you should turn on the “Two-factor authentification” option (on the same page).

It requires you to enter your phone number, which is a bummer. But if it’s turned on, everytime you wanna log on (so not if your session is already opened, but only if you log off and try to log on again), it will send a code on your phone that you’ll have to enter (in addition to having a password).

That way if someone tries to hack you again, even if they get your password right, they won’t be able to enter your blog without having that code.

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Puh, finally finished! 16 neighborhood terrains for you to enjoy. Above you can see both the mirrored sc4 region (because sims 2 insists on flipping the maps ;) ) and one where I added the names of the regions in case you want just two or three connected neighborhoods. I’ve added all 16 sc4 terrains in one big folder so just delete the ones you don’t want to have (I’ve also included the sc4 preview + the named preview). I’ve also made a slightshow with decorated examples of all the neighborhoods for you –> Sideshow

Not a new mesh, well it’s not been uploaded previously anyway…I meshed this back in 2012-13 when I was working on a carnival set that I lost interest in.  Some of those pieces have been used in other sets since then.  Well last week Simskaching sent me a message at Tumblr asking if I still had it and would I upload it, he/she remembered seeing it in my album at BPS.  I have to say, it’s not a bad piece, although I would definitely change a few things about it today if I were interested in doing so.

Carnival Ticket Booth

Includes one new mesh that functions as a floor lamp. Find under Miscellaneous lamps for $200 *  Basegame Compatible *  Recolorable

Image reads: Introducing Sim File Share, file hosting designed for simmers

Everyone hates broken links

And it seems like every time simmers find a good hosting service to put their files on, something goes wrong. Mediafire has dodgy ads. Megaupload went offline. Dropbox only offers 3GB. 4Shared started requiring a login to download (whyyy). And now Box.com isn’t refreshing bandwidth. Not to mention, simmers’ files are constantly deleted due to spurious copyright claims or purged for being old.

How many times have you found an awesome bit of CC, only to find the link is broken? Or had to go through your entire blog replacing all your links - or instead just given up and stuffed them all higgeldy piggeldy in a folder?

When simmers are offering mirror links on different hosting services by default, what we need is a better hosting service.

So we made a better hosting service!

SimFileShare is designed and maintained by nyshabrokeit and Delphy, and we’ve done everything with simmers in mind. SimFileShare can only be used for hosting sim content. This means we can tailor our features to simmers, instead of trying to cater to everyone like other services. We will be offering…

Free, unlimited file hosting - No limits on individual or total filesize, bandwidth, or number of files

Handy extra features - Currently you can view download stats and graphs for your files, organise your files into folders and share individual files or whole folders, and heart other people’s files to let them know they’re appreciated. If anyone comes up with any other awesome features we should have, we will seriously consider adding them.

But more importantly…

We guarantee that your links will never stop working

Simmers are an odd group, in that we really want our files to stay available forever - they don’t get out of date or irrelevant after a while. And this is the thing that other file hosts have failed miserably at. So SimFileShare has three ways of guaranteeing that your files won’t vanish:

We won’t change your URLs - Even if you move your files into a different folder, or if we change the way we make new URLs, we won’t change existing URLs at all. That means your links will never be invalid.

We won’t delete your files - We won’t delete files for being old, not having been downloaded in a while, or for belonging to someone who hasn‘t logged in recently. The only time we’ll delete files is if we receive a confirmed, legitimate copyright complaint - and because SimFileShare will only host sim-related files, we’ll know to be sceptical of anyone claiming that they contain copyrighted material.

Even if the site closes, your files won’t be lost - We’re not planning to ever close SimFileShare. But if that does happen, we’ll share all the public files with sites like Simscave and Graveyard before we go, so that all that lovely content won’t be gone forever.

Sounds good?

In order to keep SimFileShare within the sims community, we’re running an invitation system for new users. All registered users will be able to invite an unlimited number of people - please only invite simmers!

That means that we need some people to sign up to begin with, who can then start inviting their friends. If you would like to be one of those people, you can send me an Ask or fill out our Google Form to request an invite. Bear in mind that there’s only one of me doing these forms, so I might get backlogged - I’ll get to you as quickly as I can!