Resolved All my Chapter releases became 0

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  1. Rafael wing

    Rafael wing Well-Known Member

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    My chapter releases which were 67 in total, some of them being a month old suddenly got removed altogether today becoming 0 , is it done by some mod or some bug?
    I am from Valhalla TLs
     
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    MangoGuy Rambling Mango

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    Are the releases still visible on the series page? Which series is this? Is it for all series of your TL group? Maybe add a link??
     
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    Rafael wing Well-Known Member

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    I tried adding the link again it isn't showing up , my all 67 releases got removed some of them were from even July . I don't know what happened :(
     
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    please give the link to your site. I think it is down or something... This is very very odd.

    @runsing
     
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    Rafael wing Well-Known Member

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    yup I can see the chapters listed on your website... Considering the number of chapters released, I am assuming that the releases were automatic through RSS. Has your RSS feed been tampered with? Idk how things work with that tbh... wait for a mod to see this.
     
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    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    i locked them.

    two moderators of ours, each pretty much half-a-world apart, tested chapters from your site during queue processing (as we routinely do for most of manual submissions), and got redirected to a bicycle-something url, then redirected again to different shady sites. so that's two times jump for each reload.

    one of the sites were even a porn game ads, which one of us were unfortunate enough to be at his workplace, at the time. looking at your past post, it seems you are aware of this, and said you already removed them, however that turns out not the case.
    https://forum.novelupdates.com/posts/6601981/

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    triple spoiler, just in case
    for anyone's who's easily triggered, avoid this. you have been warned (nsfw image already blanked out)
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    Rafael wing Well-Known Member

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    I want to say our site has no redirects on our releases after 1 august and our site doesn't show 18+ ads as we have unchecked that one and only one reader commented about it and when we checked it only happened when he clicked the Chapter through NU page . No redirects happened when clicking through the Chapter link on discord and this only happened on a apple device so I just tested again and no ads were shown and I want to apologise to the staff which had the unfortunate incident of that 18+ ad but our adcompany doesn't show 18+ ads and you have approved so many of our relases , it can be a one time glitch or something so what should I do?
    @runsing
     
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    You should talk to your ad company about it – I just opened your site and immediately got redirected to a suspicious domain (which then tried to redirect to another suspicious domain and opened an extra tab doing the same). It might be region-based.
     
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    Rafael wing Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the idea, I have talked to them and they say it was a bug and have resolved it but I can't check it by myself as ads aren't showing in my region in the first place.
     
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    I'm not getting redirected now.
     
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    Rafael wing Well-Known Member

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    @runsing I think it got fixed so could the chapters get unlocked now.
    The stuff that happened was a bug and never intentionalled and I apologized to the guy that suffered due to that. But the adcompany got it fixed and @Jaspaaar here verified it.

    @runsing I am thankful for you re adding the relases but the total releases should be 68 after including the latest release of v3c1 of second in everything, the relases till ch 4 of Evil Avalon and v1c1 of I was reincarnated as a commoner was there on NU before you locked the Chapters.

    Thanks for making it as original.(y)
     
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    Whoa! I opened using my laptop and got no redirects back then. Maybe it's only targeting mobiles or something... Either way, good to see a resolution.
     
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    this should be the last time i'm dealing with such things from your side. the next time.. no i don't think there should be a next time. you have already overspent your chances, more than most other group ever got. ever since you started with N.O.W, and later the rebranded NOW.

    we are already being lenient enough, but you should not take the act for granted.