OP 05 July, 2022 - 06:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 17 October, 2023 - 06:12 AM by mak0001. Edited 7 times in total.
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TLDR:
New RestoreCord owner xenos1337 can't really be trusted, with large YouTubers even exposing the scam.
I would recommend either using this source code, or use my new service VaultCord which already has far more features and actively listens to customer feedback ?
I created RestoreCord in April 2020, a Discord service for the backup of server members, so server owners could pull them back into a server after a raid or other member loss scenario.
Due to my busy schedule, I hastily sold RestoreCord to a new owner in January 2022. Lesson learned, this isn't how you sell a business. This new owner, 'xenos1337', took things in a new direction. Unfortunately he started catering to scammers and those who sell their members. Meaning, he promoted the sale of members to other random server owners which serves as an annoyance and probably a privacy violation as well. You can see an official sanctioned member-selling marketplace by RestoreCord here.
It also became apparent that xenos1337 was involved with token logging (stealing Discord accounts) and Discord phishing pages (more Discord account stealing). Not exactly what you would want someone who has access to 1,000,000+ Discord accounts via RestoreCord doing in his free time..
Unsurprisingly, the company operating Discord didn't take kindly to this brazen activity and shut down the bot in June 2022. 1,000,000+ members were lost forever. No explanation or compensation was given by the RestoreCord management to their customers.
xenos1337 had shared his plans to develop a new codebase that would be compatible with custom bots, one bot per customer. This meant no use for the original source code, which I developed and had retained copyright ownership over, since I never transferred the copyright ownership.
I published the original source code, seen in the GitHub repository. I had the legal right and felt an ethical obligation to do so, as RestoreCord customers were left waiting for months with no explanation or clear ETA when the service would return.
xenos1337 was not happy about this, first attempting to illegally remove this GitHub repository. Then, he pettily scammed me for $10 and stole my Discord server vanity
He continued to level attacks against me and anyone affiliated with me. He successfully committed credit card fraud on a competitor of RestoreCord that I was affiliating with. He conspired with a former co-worker of mine (@NebulaMods/nebulamods.ca) to DDoS that same RestoreCord competitor, and leak private API credentials that the co-worker stole from my server without consent.
While he did finally stop the attacks, no compensation was ever made for these wrongful, unlawful attacks, nor were RestoreCord customers compensated either for their losses.
The problems continue to this day. Just a few months ago in May 2023, the new owner lost 10,000+ members due to failing to backup his database automatically, which led to him reverting to a 3 month old backup after they were banned from the hosting company OVH for fraud & abuse.
I don't think the new management of RestoreCord has proven to be professional or reliable. That is why I would recommend using the source code or using my new service VaultCord which has far more features and values customer feedback.
Noob-friendly tutorial on how to host 100% free forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804Fzc5j4vo
New RestoreCord owner xenos1337 can't really be trusted, with large YouTubers even exposing the scam.
I would recommend either using this source code, or use my new service VaultCord which already has far more features and actively listens to customer feedback ?
I created RestoreCord in April 2020, a Discord service for the backup of server members, so server owners could pull them back into a server after a raid or other member loss scenario.
Due to my busy schedule, I hastily sold RestoreCord to a new owner in January 2022. Lesson learned, this isn't how you sell a business. This new owner, 'xenos1337', took things in a new direction. Unfortunately he started catering to scammers and those who sell their members. Meaning, he promoted the sale of members to other random server owners which serves as an annoyance and probably a privacy violation as well. You can see an official sanctioned member-selling marketplace by RestoreCord here.
It also became apparent that xenos1337 was involved with token logging (stealing Discord accounts) and Discord phishing pages (more Discord account stealing). Not exactly what you would want someone who has access to 1,000,000+ Discord accounts via RestoreCord doing in his free time..
Unsurprisingly, the company operating Discord didn't take kindly to this brazen activity and shut down the bot in June 2022. 1,000,000+ members were lost forever. No explanation or compensation was given by the RestoreCord management to their customers.
xenos1337 had shared his plans to develop a new codebase that would be compatible with custom bots, one bot per customer. This meant no use for the original source code, which I developed and had retained copyright ownership over, since I never transferred the copyright ownership.
I published the original source code, seen in the GitHub repository. I had the legal right and felt an ethical obligation to do so, as RestoreCord customers were left waiting for months with no explanation or clear ETA when the service would return.
xenos1337 was not happy about this, first attempting to illegally remove this GitHub repository. Then, he pettily scammed me for $10 and stole my Discord server vanity
He continued to level attacks against me and anyone affiliated with me. He successfully committed credit card fraud on a competitor of RestoreCord that I was affiliating with. He conspired with a former co-worker of mine (@NebulaMods/nebulamods.ca) to DDoS that same RestoreCord competitor, and leak private API credentials that the co-worker stole from my server without consent.
While he did finally stop the attacks, no compensation was ever made for these wrongful, unlawful attacks, nor were RestoreCord customers compensated either for their losses.
The problems continue to this day. Just a few months ago in May 2023, the new owner lost 10,000+ members due to failing to backup his database automatically, which led to him reverting to a 3 month old backup after they were banned from the hosting company OVH for fraud & abuse.
I don't think the new management of RestoreCord has proven to be professional or reliable. That is why I would recommend using the source code or using my new service VaultCord which has far more features and values customer feedback.
Noob-friendly tutorial on how to host 100% free forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=804Fzc5j4vo
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