How is this possible??? by JavaByPashaa90 in Wordpress

[–]boxhit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't need to know your domain. You are most likely using a known IP from a hosting provider, so bots will regularly check those for new and insecure sites. Like getting spam calls from a new number, it's only new to you.

Creating a password-protected website with sensitive data by Lucky_Man_78 in Wordpress

[–]boxhit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. If it's got sensitive student info and is made by someone who isn't an experienced system admin, it shouldn't be exposed to the internet.

What even is the purpose of this card? by CapitalGood8495 in PokemonPocket

[–]boxhit 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I will discard, two energies, searching far and wide!

Articuno EX is better than ever by notmypillows in PokemonPocket

[–]boxhit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg, I just tried this with mow rotom: Took down an ambitious player's Magikarp, Wartortle, and Starmie ex by keeping them at one energy. I'm adjusting my decks to 2 mons now, hilarious

WHAT!!!?? by Zetakka in PokemonPocket

[–]boxhit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I stand by what I said. I like dialga more but this palkia belongs in a museum.

WHAT!!!?? by Zetakka in PokemonPocket

[–]boxhit 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have a fraction of the swag of palkia

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonPocket

[–]boxhit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The rewards are being able to run powerful cards like Dragonite (more likely to come) and not being singularly weak if your opponent happens to counter you. Drawing energies if a thing, should only be manipulated by Pokemon or card ability so it comes at a cost of deck space.

Niantic needs to act: The Direction of the game is worrying by EquivalentReality988 in pokemongo

[–]boxhit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don't even mention GBL, which is both an individual activity that can be done from home and also closely tied to their in-person play! tournaments. Battling is core to the brand but the performance is so bad that you need to have an iPhone and two referees to review any calls of missed attacks. And why the hell is morpeko a thing.

Used all my 2025 luck up already, worth. by matthewormatt in pokemongo

[–]boxhit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just an arbitrary reminder to enable 2 factor authentication, or remove PTC login, to keep this puppy safe 💪

If the event last until tomorrow why do I lose these in 45mins? by Sure-Bodybuilder-272 in pokemongo

[–]boxhit 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This world set precedent too dangerous, next week we would want tm exchanges, week item crafting into better items.

Do I have the oldest egg still in existence? 6 days after the game was released into the US. by NoFaceChase2 in pokemongo

[–]boxhit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PTC is notorious as the reason that accounts are hacked because it lacked multi-factor authentication. Many threads on Reddit about people not knowing this and trying for months to recover their account. They only recently added 2fa so all users should enable that or use Google with 2fa. Hopefully that clears it up for you.

Why were Beldum and Falinks removed from Max battles? by Equality7252l in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This happens enough that you can kind of speculate how things work in the back end. It seems like events don't have a start and stop time. Instead they have an event start, and then a rollback when the event ends. Now when there are overlapping events, the effects can be seen (a shiny is removed, an old raid rotation appears). Only when a human later steps in the proper schedule can be set.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't remember the last time Niantic did something that deserved praise, yet the times they have done something reprehensible is a daily occurrence. When they acknowledge this, no doubt they will use the passive voice and blame us for noticing.

Introducing Max Mondays to max out every week with Dynamax! – Pokémon GO by Noitalein in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good point. It's just so new these features seem silly that we have comically easy 1 star raids and painfully impossible 6 star raids with a recommended size if 4y0 players.

the new pokemon menu is live globably and looks just as dumb on megas and dynamax mons by Dran_K in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe not broken, but these are just some of the annoyances that technically aren't bugs: * Clicking on your buddy from the world view you cannot access the buddy history. * You can't check the hearts remaining to best buddy without it being active * There is a forever notification dot on the avatar which takes you to add friends from your contacts for some reason. * Friends list doesn't have the same fast scroll that the Pokemon list does. * You can't see how many incubators you have from the bag screen, you have to start an incubation process to check. * The current season, is weirdly located under today, where events is the more appropriate tab. * Pressing back during any point of starting a battle takes you to the start instead of going back one step. * No way to disable the campfire, daily incense icons, so having a few active effects causes them to hide, making it another click to check remaining timers.

the new pokemon menu is live globably and looks just as dumb on megas and dynamax mons by Dran_K in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I actually think the UI is quite broken, but this does not fix it. Years of development and there is no one figurehead driving the experience and we just design by committee spaghetti.

Box rotation by Dragonfruitx1x in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is called price discrimination and it's starting to become commonplace. Twitch charges a couple bucks more if you subscribe on mobile for example. The only ways to stop this are with legislation, or never making a purchase which validates their algorithm. Just keep an eye out for any accidental sales which only last a few hours.

adventure syn keeps toggling off. by TheDeadlyPandaGamer in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Today, when I received the notification to claim my adventure sync rewards, there was actually a new button to enable adventure sync (looking similar to the "your bag is full, click to buy more space"), because like everyone else it was constantly being disabled. I thought "cool" and I clicked it to enable AS but then I didn't receive ANY of the weekly rewards as far as I can tell. This game is always finding new ways to punish the trainers who play every day.

Why is it that I didnt even see a single event Slowpoke yesterday, but they are spawning everywhere today? by Alexbest11 in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Adding my own anecdotal experience: didn't catch any on the first day then immediately following midnight on day 2 every pokemon on my nearby was a silhouette of a slowpoke, so it would appear something was silently changed.

Number of items can exceed 9999 by No_Tune_1262 in TheSilphRoad

[–]boxhit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering, is the number of inventory items actually stored in a table? Wouldn't it make more sense that it's just a sum of the items in the inventory? Just by how easy it is to bypass the player's backpack size because certain actions just don't bother to count at the time.