![Dashhacks was once the place-to-be for every Homebrew enthusiast and console hack fans. What once was seen as one of the biggest Homebrew community, has now turned into a wasteland of ads and bots. But why did it turn out this way? Is it the death of the Sony PSP, or is it because the owners care more about ad-money […]](http://fjmhomebrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/dd.jpg "Death of Dashhacks: How a Homebrew pioneer turned into an ad-site")
Dashhacks was once the place-to-be for every Homebrew enthusiast and console hack fans. What once was seen as one of the biggest Homebrew community, has now turned into a wasteland of ads and bots. But why did it turn out this way? Is it the death of the Sony PSP, or is it because the owners care more about ad-money instead of their content? Most likely the latter.
The semi-dead Dashhacks is owned by Keebali, an Israeli company co-founded by Alan Weisleder & Aviv Eliezer in 2007, with Shai Beilis as Chairman. Their business model consists of “acquiring successful websites, in an effort to make them even bigger” according to their homepage. If “making bigger” means filling every empty spot with ads, and not caring about their staff leaving, then Dashhacks can be considered very big. There hasn’t been an article written for Dashhacks since July, and honestly… I don’t even think that the supervisor knows. I don’t even think that Keebali knows they own Dashhacks.
The staff tried to make something out of nothing since Dashhacks was basically nothing at that time. What might be even worse than the state of the website, was the communication. Our last effort to make use of the website was when we contacted Keebali with ideas. Not only did I get no response, which was expected. Tacit consent, right? Wrong! The whole login-in page fell apart, so nobody can log in.
I have been part of Dashhacks since 2012. With my role shifting from a writer, to the administrator, to project manager, to… I don’t even know myself anymore. It saddens me to see such a great community shattered. There was much more potential than just an ad-space. The lads at PSX-Place carry on the spirit of Dashhacks, so be sure to take a look at their website.
With the staff leaving and the fanbase leaving, is this what Keebali wanted? What did they want with Dashhacks? One of the staff members had to explain what a “Homebrew” was, so it certainly wasn’t their interests in console modding.
Conclusion: Dead website, no visitors = no ad-money
RIP -hacks.
Hey Greg.
I miss you and all the other old forum members. I think of you all often. I wouldn’t be where I am now if it hadn’t been for that place and all of you. That’s where my interest in homebrew and programming in general started and was nurtured.
Thanks for all the good times and the great community. I hope you and everyone else is doing well.
You will be missed.
-hacks died when you sold it, Greg.
I was an admin before the site died when PSDonkey,Beaker, Zingaburga and many others were active.
Those were the days.
The forums were a lot of fun.
Such a shame it was run into the ground by those who only cared about ad revenue.
I still remember PSDonkey’s avatar.
RIP
i was probably one if not the last mod that i can remember being added to the team. been part of the site officially sine 2009 i believe.. but browsed the site before i made an account, was fun and good times! i honestly miss the other mods/admins that i “grew” up with and sharing laughs and such. after Greg sold the site the new people who owned it at that time were nice enough but thats when the site died in my eyes. since a lot of veterans left was sad to see and plus all the spam accounts that were made in mass and the lack of people online made it hard to want to log in
i was gonna come here to see whats new since i’ve not used it in almost 2 years
since dash hacks is dead, what website can i use?
yes i know how to google but i like interacting with people to see different sites that different people use
@timothy
wololo.net
is a good place to look
Is this where everyone went after dashhacks? Myself and lcf13 were admins on the iphone-hacks before the merge happened.
Many, many tutorials and good info now gone.