Prankcast News & Patch Notes
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  • Posted bymilkbox

    Bigger update coming soon, but in the meantime I've taken some steps to make Prankcast chat more secure and did not want to wait on this release:

    Chatroom Security

    • You can no longer put markdown links in the chatroom in this format [text](url). It represented a risk of users making the text look like a false url and linking it to something unsafe. For example: [htp://ebay.com](htp://veryverybadsite.xyz)
    • All http urls will still be linked, but will now take you to a Prankcast intermediate page where you are given a chance to inspect the URL and make sure you want to click through to it. This should prevent people from accidentally clicking a URL in a fast-moving chatroom and unintentionally visiting an unsafe page.
    • All images are now run through a proxy on duckduckgo before being displayed in chat. This should prevent ip-logger sites linked as image urls from being able to grab the personal IP addresses of individual users in chat.

    Misc

    • Fixed a bug preventing scheduled broadcast drafts from being edited in the Web Broadcaster App
    • Fixed podcast sorting issue
    • Built an import script to pull in and host old Mixlr showreel files from interested users
    • Wrapping long chat links so chat doesnt break when a big string is posted

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