Dread论坛管理员再次公告恢复进展，预计有可能在本周重新启动

Dread论坛管理员HugBunter最近对他的暗网市场论坛何时恢复运行提供了一些消息，他1月3日曾在Reddit的r/DreadAlert分论坛上用PGP签名的消息发表声明称Dread论坛有希望在一周内回归，但并没有回归；1月21日星期六，HugBunter又在Reddit的r/DreadAlert分论坛上用PGP签名的消息公告了论坛恢复的进展。HugBunter在消息中表示，该论坛“应该会在下周上线”，这表明最迟会在月底上线。他还建议，在重新启动完成之前，他本人和联合管理员Paris不会再有任何更新，即不会再次发布消息公告。

Dread论坛是最大的暗网英文论坛，有数百名暗网交易市场的用户定期访问，并被视为暗网市场链接和信息的一个值得信赖的焦点。这个著名的论坛在2022年11月底因遭受DDOS攻击完全下线，此后漫长得时间里，Dread一直在被其管理员重新调整，使其更强大地抵御持续的DDOS攻击者的努力。

去年，未具名的攻击者曾多次发动DDOS攻击，拒绝服务攻击让Dread数天甚至数周无法访问，与此同时，多个暗网交易市场也遭受了DDOS攻击，显然攻击Dread论坛的与攻击多个暗网市场的是同一波人。但是，无论Dread还是遭受攻击的暗网市场，均拒绝屈服于攻击者的勒索要求。

HugBunter在Reddit上适度详细地描述了让Dread重新上线所涉及的挑战，听起来很疲惫，但他决心完成手头的任务。这些挑战包括重建论坛及其底层架构，使其能够保持高水平的安全性，同时使其更能抵御未来的DDOS攻击。

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January 21st, 2023

Edit: Re-signed, I timestamped it as 2022…

I’ve been clear on not wanting to provide any specific ETA and lets not forget that acronym starts with “Estimated”, I’ve had to be careful with this and it is still causing many of you to lash out at me, which is definitely not appreciated when I’ve spent almost every waking minute working on things that will make this downtime have been worthwile for everyone.

If I had given an ETA in the past that I thought I could stick to and be confident in, you’d have all been pretty mad when the date came and passed with no change to our status. On the infrastructure side, we’ve faced many set backs with configuring things as we’ve needed, which is also very different to our previous cluster setup. You can plan everything and something can go wrong somewhere which puts a halt to any progress. This has been the case many times already during this infrastructure overhaul, with the most recent unforseen issue mostly wiping current progress. As for the rewrite work I’ve been putting into the codebase, that was a crazy task where I’ve had to completely rip apart the underlying functionality for almost everything, which was a complete mess and I had to spend a lot of time on the theory of how to redevelop it, covering all potential issues along the way. Overall, everything is time consuming and very draining mentally. I am extremely sleep deprived but glad we are almost at the finish line here.

Dread should be online within the next week. I do not expect any issues with the remaining work required on the server cluster, although my insight into what Paris is working on for that is also limited. I have completed the rewrites needed for the codebase and all that remains is more in depth testing which can be completed over the next few days once it is running on a staging server. I may invite users for private testing of this also.

This is the best ETA I can give you, once again assuming no extreme issues. Do not expect it though and stop putting further pressure on us. It is impossible to know if anything would crop up and prevent relaunch this week and I am giving my personal opinion as the path to this seems a lot clearer at this point in time.

I’m at a point now where anyone who complains about this because of their absolute lack of understanding can just fuck off, seriously. You have no idea what both myself and Paris put ourselves through for this platform to serve you and the risks we take in doing so, I hope you enjoyed the holidays, because I was knee deep in development the entire time.

This is the last update post I will be publishing until re-launch, unless anything else is absolutely needed. I may still respond to comments, but honestly need to just focus on completion.

Dread will be live, when it is live.
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HugBunter在Reddit上写道：“在基础设施方面，我们在根据需要配置东西时遇到了很多挫折，这也与我们以前的集群设置有很大不同。”“你可以计划好一切，但有些地方可能会出错，从而使任何进展停止。在这次基础设施大修期间，这种情况已经多次发生，最近一次不可预见的问题主要是抹杀了目前的进展。”他补充说。

Dread论坛的共同管理员Paris也一直在让论坛用户了解最新进展，在1月20日的Dread论坛金丝雀（canary）更新中写道，他表示“终于解决了（服务器）集群的问题”，他和HugBunter将“尽快让Dread论坛恢复正常。”

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I, Paris am alive and free as of Friday, Jan 20th, 2023 and in full control of the Dread Network and related services.

Finally fixed the problem with the cluster. Just today. Going to get things up again ASAP.

Emergency updates are available here or at reddit via /r/DreadAlert if our onion becomes unavailable.

Next canary is due Monday, January 30th, 2023.

Bitcoin Block: 000000000000000000028610b97c27146c6db736ad69459ce3d482ff15be79c2
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数十位网友在Reddit帖子下回复对HugBunter与Paris的辛苦工作表示感谢，称“u/hugbunt3r感谢您付出的辛勤工作。社区非常感谢您和Paris，非常感谢！！！”、“感谢Paris和u/hugbunt3r到目前为止所做的一切。我不确定邀请用户会带来什么或如何进行，但我很乐意在任何可能的地方提供帮助，让Dread重新上线。”、“感谢更新，hugbunt3r。我认为大多数人都很感激您为我们提供了一个免费的暗网reddit。我不明白普通人怎么会不欣赏这个事实。我很想像我们很多人一样把它拿回来，但很明显，你不欠我们任何人任何东西。希望您已经度过了项目中最糟糕的部分。再次感谢你”

有用户在Reddit建立了Dread论坛的状态更新子版块，并表示“当Dread离线时，这个subreddit将被更新”，地址是：https://www.reddit.com/r/Dread_Status/new/，目前已经更新至1月30日，依旧是offline。