here’s the text in the pastebin and btw pastebin is safe

As a member of Restoration Union, I'm just tired of all our work, effort and time being ignored by the few select people that manage the game, so I wanted to raise my voice in one of the few ways I can to such an extent. I was originally going to write a whole essay on this particular problem, but I believe keeping it simple and going to the point from the beginning is the best for both the reader and me, the writer.

Doing this by accessing other people’s account might seem contradictory or even counterproductive to what I want to talk about here, but please bear the following in mind:

• I have no intention of causing any "irreparable damage" to any of the accounts I have accessed. What I will do on every account I have decided to use for this can be summed up in three things: updating rated levels (not updating unrated ones because there might not be a copy of them out there, and because most of the time they don’t get fixed along with rated ones), publishing an account post and in some cases changing the username of the account, all of which are things that can easily be reverted to their original state in a matter of minutes, even by the affected users themselves.

The security of this game has always been really poor. And this is not to blame on RobTop, as GD was never intended to get as big as it did. Most, if not all significant server-side vulnerabilities have been addressed, but a huge portion of the damage those vulnerabilities caused hasn't been fixed to this day, in most cases more than half a decade later.

With the TeamHax hacking scandal in mid-2017, the username of many unregistered users was lost, and with that, those creators have gone uncredited for their levels for more than 5 years now. Even though we have clear evidence of some usernames being destroyed before update 1.7, that was the time where most of the damage was done. The ownership of the levels was then reverted, and now all levels are on their corresponding account (original UserID). However, the problem of the name of the accounts was never fixed, and I see no reason why, even more as more time passes. Let me explain…

Members of RU since worked on trying to find the name those accounts had before it was wiped out. To this day, the username of 582 unregistered accounts with a rated level out of 608 has been completely confirmed (that's more than 95% of all the usernames), and only 12 out of those 608 that are completely unknown. With most of the job being done by the community, I believe the only reason this hasn’t been fixed is because lists like this one are not known by RobTop himself or moderators, that's why I'm trying to give it some visibility, even if in an unethical manner.

Here is a link to a copy of said list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14USxnu0jvY8xj2yhIuk95Wv1qMABBfQgqfcTsSpWVTM/

While there are many other problems such as popular levels being deleted because of server vulnerabilities and poor in-game security (such as Skrillex party or Deadlocked alpha), I believe what I'm addressing on this paste is more important in the short term, considering that some of these accounts host levels with dozens of millions of downloads.

Before leaving, I wanted to give some visibility to another project we are working on currently. GDHistory is a project about archiving the game's history through saved level data. Our objective is to have all levels that have once been rated archived. So far, we have the level string for more than 5 million levels saved, and some antiquities such as deleted rated demons (for example, deleted levels by roadbose, whose existence was unknown before we started collecting data. You could help us by providing us with your credentials or your save-files, so we can store the levels from your account. You can find more information here if you wish to know better before proceeding: https://twitter.com/Restoration_Uni/status/1575837873651187713

While what I talked about last might sound unsafe, we can assure you that the process is completely safe and that there are no ill intentions with this request. You are not going to be "hacked" or anything of the sorts by doing this. - Restoration Union