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title: Monthly Updates [Jan] Happy New Year!
description: Happy New Year to our FMHY family.
date: 2024-01-01
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<Post authors="['nbats', 'zinklog', 'Q', 'Kai', 'taskylizard']"></Post>
Hi everyone, happy new year! As we bid farewell to '23, let's take a moment to
reflect on the remarkable journey FMHY has had this year:
- We made a new website, enriched with an array of handcrafted features (by me,
of course) to enhance your experience and make browsing the wiki pleasant on
all devices (mobile included!)
- We opened our Discord server and reached 10k members, which introduced many
new great people to this community and made contribution easy
- We've reached 250k+ members and 31 million views on reddit!
- Our FMHYedit repository oversaw an impressive 1k+ pull requests made by the
community and merged over 8k commits!
- This wiki has grown to be more than just a piracy index, so we felt it is about
time other sections get some love. As such, we organized and separated tools
sections into their own pages, which allowed us to move a lot of useful tools
out of storage and make it a lot easier to discover them
- We started the debloat arc of FMHY and went from 27k links to 24k! We've
removed a lot of dead, useless, and niche links / categories, as well as
re-organized a lot of sections for better clarity and easier navigation
As we enter 2024, we eagerly expect to build on our achievements and
evolving together. FMHY wouldn't be what it is today without the love and
support of everyone in this community. Thank you for being an integral part of
FMHY. Here's to another year of growth and success! 💙
# Wiki Updates
- Made our own instances for both **[SearX](https://searx.fmhy.net/)** +
**[Whoogle](https://whoogle.fmhy.net/)**.
- Made a [Posts](/posts) page on our site, so you can see all
updates without needing reddit. You can also follow via
[RSS](/feed.rss).
- Created a new category for
[Social Media Tools](/social-media-tools), and added
subsections for popular sites that needed them. (Reddit, Discord, YouTube,
etc.)
- Added sections for
[Game Soundtracks](/audiopiracyguide#game-soundtracks),
[IRC Tools](/downloadpiracyguide#irc-tools) and
[Coding AIs](/devtools#coding-ais).
- Split Career into subsections:
[Remote Jobs](/miscguide#remote-jobs),
[Tech Jobs](/miscguide#tech-jobs),
[Startup](/miscguide#startup) and
[Finance / Crypto](/miscguide#finance-crypto)
- Split Game Mods into subsections:
[Mod Indexes](/gamingpiracyguide#mod-indexes) and
[Single Mods](/gamingpiracyguide#game-mods)
- Split News into subsections:
[Aggregators](/miscguide#aggregators) and
[Tech News](/miscguide#tech-news)
- Re-organized both
[Android Operating Systems](/android-iosguide#operating-systems) +
[App Launchers](/android-iosguide#app-launchers), and moved
them out of storage.
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# Stars Added ⭐
- Starred [Braflix](/videopiracyguide#streaming-sites) in
Streaming Sites. Fast streams, no ads, nice UI, 4K + 1080p.
- Starred [Liber3](/readingpiracyguide#ebooks) in Reading Sites.
Big library, nice UI, single click downloads.
- Starred [Screenbox](/video-tools#video-players) in Video
Players. Open-source, VLC based video player with nice UI.
- Starred [Vesktop](/social-media-tools#discord-clients) in
Discord Clients. Lightweight desktop client built with Vencord.
- Starred [SydneyQt](/ai#proprietary-llms) in AI Chatbots.
Jailbroken Bing AI.
- Starred [App Manager](/android-iosguide#foss-apks) in FOSS
APKs. Open-source Android app package manager.
- Starred [scrcpy](/android-iosguide#android-device) in Android
Tools. Manage mobile devices via desktop.
- Starred [KernelSU](/android-iosguide#android-device) in
Android Device. Root tool that some people prefer over Magisk.
- Starred [Onion Browser](/android-iosguide#ios-privacy) in iOS
Privacy. Recommended by Tor on their site.
- Starred [Wii Guide](/gamingpiracyguide#homebrew) in Homebrew.
- Starred [Video2x](/video-tools#video-tools-1) in Video Tools.
Lossless video/GIF/image upscaler.
- Starred [VCRedist](/system-tools#windows-updates) in Windows
Updates. Easily download all Microsoft Visual C++ redists.
- Starred [CanvasBlocker](/adblockvpnguide#privacy-extensions)
in Privacy Extensions. Prevent Javascript API fingerprinting.
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# Things Removed
- Removed SevenGamers as they've
[decided to shut down](https://i.imgur.com/C5sgVqI.png).
- Removed YasDL as they uploaded a version of StarDock with the same malware
that FilecCR and others have gotten removed for.
- Removed Torrentz2 as they've stopped indexing new torrents.
- Unstarred LookMovie as they've added a
[10-second wait](https://i.imgur.com/I0D9Hyt.png) before videos play.
- Unstarred DS4Windows in gaming tools. You can just add games to steam and turn
on PS4 controller support by right-clicking the game.
- Unstarred Ideogram as it is no longer unlimited.
- Removed EveryNoiseAtOnce as the dev has been
[let go from Spotify](https://i.imgur.com/AaIrcAc.png).
- Removed CryptoStorm as its [possibly unsafe](https://i.imgur.com/VDlSY1T.png).
The owner has no ties to it anymore apparently, but It is still hard to trust a
company with a history this dark.
- Removed our backups from NotABug. Their site goes down nearly
[every day](https://i.imgur.com/Vx8Ou68.png) at this point, and its become a
nightmare to keep 25 wiki pages updated there. If they ever fix their issues,
we may bring it back.