Darflen

Darflen (pronounced ) is a minimalistic social media site. Its userbase, colloquially known as "Darfriends," can engage on the site via engagements. These include interactions: posts, comments, and replies.https://darflen.com/statistics#interactions
Founded and hosted by William Paradock Theman and opened on ,https://u.cubeupload.com/fungifungus/XQ6Fjs.png Darflen has grown to 735 registered users and 56808 interactions as of .https://darflen.com/statistics
==History==
===Darflen V1 (August 2021–August 2023)===
Paradock started working on Darflen on . In June, Darflen was in an indev status in which visitors could view the website. Once Darflen officially released in , it grew itself a small community that relatively inactive. A post every 3 days was a common occurrence at that time. Some of the most memorable users at that time were PkmnQ, Paradock, Juan, Gilbert, Lily, and Jinx. Later, on , while maintaining the database, Paradock deleted a new unknown user's data, which was a huge mistake. Deleting the data of this one new unknown user caused the database to delete itself. The website immediately broke and Paradock put Darflen under maintenance. Unfortunately, the last backup was 3 weeks old. Frustrated, Paradock then decided to extend the time of maintenance that was supposed to last a few days to multiple months in order to entirely remake Darflen from scratch. 
===The Void (August 2023–October 2023)===
From to , Darflen was diminished to a maintenance page with a few messages on it. Over time, more notices were added to give updates on the state of Darflen. This almost empty page remained in Darflen's place for a long time.
===Darflen V2 (October 2023)===
On , the 4 month long maintenance was lifted and Darflen reopened to the public. Sadly, all of the previous data was completely wiped. This was a completely new beginning. The first user except Paradock to have joined Darflen V2 is jinx, followed by Scrouscrou. During the first week of Darflen V2's release, Darflen was breaking activity records. Darflen was more active than it ever was. But no real community truly formed at that time since most of the users were from wasteof.money and decided to visit the website with no intent of staying. Eventually, most of the temporary users became inactive and the website died down a little. However, it was still much more active than Darflen V1. The statistics went down but a real community started to form around Darflen. Darflen's community was slowly regrowing, little by little, the user count went up.
=== Subtle Foreshadowing (May 2024)===
Up to this date, Paradock did not build any kind of admin panel to safely moderate Darflen. He resorted to manually changing data in his database. This method worked for the early parts of darflen but it definitely was not the safest way of moderating. On , while moderating, Paradock accidentally deleted a part of his database for the third time, and the latest saved backups were corrupted. Fortunately, only the post data was affected, which means all users and communities were not affected at all. After a quick maintenance period, Paradock resorted to simply reboot Darflen with the posts data completely erased. This is one of the first posts shared after the incident:
===The Modern Era (May 2024–)===
A few months after the post wipe, Paradock realized the backups from older Darflen were still readable. With time and patience, he managed to almost recover all data lost. But on , the entire website exploded. It was discovered that Biglyderv ran injected PHP on Darflen and deleted most of the site, the site was just coming up with a 403 Forbidden warning. Luckily, Paradock managed to fix this and put the site back to normal with some user files being lost. On , JamieD132 found a variant of the exploit but could only set the response headers. Less than 13 hours later, PkmnQ used a separate variant and figured out how to run mostly anything. Souple and a few others messed around with this; Souple accidentally broke a lot of user's notifications; PkmnQ created a piece of text that made the page start spinning with music playing when clicked; Souple put a Iframe of PolyTrack and Meowerhttps://darflen.com/posts/5032ef8cf1ba97fc110483bc into a comment.
==Design and features==
===Engagements===
Engagements include social actions taken by users, including interactions, loves, follows, reposts, votes, etc. There have been 131520 total engagements with loves being the most common.
Users can publish posts in 3 different areas on the site: on their feed, their user page, and a community page that they have joined. If a user publishes a post on a community page, their post will be assigned to its corresponding community. A post's layout consists of their user icon with their status (if online or recently online) in the top-left corner of a post container, with their display name next to the icon on the top-half corner on the right, with the relative duration since it was posted and the view count. Across on the top-right corner, there is an ellipsis showing an option to report the post or if you are the author, to edit the post, pin/unpin the post, and delete it.
===Appearance===
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