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+title: Monthly Updates [Jan] & Happy New Year!
+description: Happy New Year everyone! We've made a lot of progress this year.
+date: 2024-01-01
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+<Post authors="['nbats', 'zinklog', 'Q', 'Kai', 'taskylizard']" />
+
+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's 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 anticipate building 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.
+
+---
+
+### 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.
+
+---
+
+### 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 filecr 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 its 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 its 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.