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aivo wrote: April 16th, 2026, 2:52 am...I'm not a programmer so if someone else helps fix it that'd be great.

I don't know if that's a good news or not, but such hack is the easiest thing which can come into hacker's mind. It is easy to fix as well.
Since I don't want to break running instance of this game, I did not made tests, but I think this problem can be fixed by insertion of such line after line with "color = msg.color" in server.js:

not much you can do - yet . . .🪶

if you are not quiet a i bots will hunt you . . .

sezme.st works o k tho . . .

fla.onl and tru.cam will also get you in . . .

a i looked at the code, and it's good code - robust

[ don't think we need to worry about being "hacked" ]

used the hotcrystal0 github code [ see link above ]

Cheers !

<3

aivo wrote: April 16th, 2026, 2:52 am Here's what AI says about the hack:
Someone's injecting JavaScript through the chat. The XSS vulnerability is in how color and name get inserted into innerHTML without escaping the style attribute. Quick fix:Identified parameter vulnerability and prescribed dual-layer mitigation strategyIdentified parameter vulnerability and prescribed dual-layer mitigation strategyThe bug: color goes straight into innerHTML without escaping. Someone sets their color to "><img src=x onerror=alert(1)> and it breaks out of the style attribute.

I'm not a programmer so if someone else helps fix it that'd be great.

Have you seen the GitHub repo that I uploaded it to yet?

aivo wrote: April 16th, 2026, 2:52 am I'm not a programmer so if someone else helps fix it that'd be great.

Out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say you're not a programmer? You seem to be pretty good at it.

wwei47 wrote: April 17th, 2026, 8:10 pm Out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say you're not a programmer? You seem to be pretty good at it.

Maybe (s)he used AI to create the entire thing (i.e. vibe coding).

Yes, they said it was vibe coded in the lifecompetes chat.

hotcrystal0 wrote: April 15th, 2026, 5:38 pm

aivo wrote: April 15th, 2026, 3:23 pm The game got hacked and I don't really have the time right now so I've pulled it down, if anyone wants the files let me know then you can host it and put it on github and work on it as a community or something?

Are you still going to work on it though? Also, how did it get hacked?

Edit: I have uploaded the files to GitHub here.

Replacing line 100 of index.html with this: Should fix the corrupt built-in LWSS pattern.
Also, has anyone tried to optimize the rendering engine yet? (Currently it renders a circle of 'fog' for every single live cell, which is very inefficient when living cells are usually clustered together). Using an algorithm that parses every 'cluster' of live cells instead of going through every live cell might be more efficient.

in-game progress
i wud advise not to enter - i will provide screen shots

Cheers !

ss2
<3

here is an interesting little neighborhood
well that's it for now - BCNU

EDIT

my 30 day railway trial ended after 3 days

Gamelogic

The game should be expandable.

The players should be incentiveized.

The goal should be 1000 registered players.

Registering will reserve a gameplay name, which should be identical to your ForumUsername. One registers with their real first and last names.

Login with your GamePlayName; select color as usual - colors taken should be so indicated. There should be a link to download the PDF with all the rules, lore, etc.

The game has four quadrants : HOME (the initial grid) - NORTH - EAST - and NORTHEAST.
When there are three active players (1000cells) we get an identical grid - NORTH. When we have six we get EAST - nine we get NORTHEAST. The expanded grid becomes HOME; three grid expansions will acomodate 192 players (more than we will need for a while).

Four contiguous outposts (a block) will get you a sub base (satellite) which will have limited generative capabilities and will always be unlocked.


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[otismo sez] ===> well - i checked out lifecompetes - and it sucks . . ..

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it might be advantageous to rewrite this to use speedydelete's lifeweb library, since it's very fast and also supports custom rules. Plus speedydelete is serious about making it work since it's used for the discord's Caterer bot to !sim patterns.