HugBunter, the creator of Dread announced today that two years ago on February 15th, 2018 Dread has been launched. What was once planned to be small dark web discussion forum with 1,000 users, today grow to one of the largest deep web discussion forum and news resource with over 120,000 registered members.
HugBunter, the creator and main administrator announced the creation of Dread on Reddit shortly after Reddit banned several dark web sub-reddits.
Here is the full announcement from HugBunter about Dread anniversary and future plans for this forum:
This is terribly late so I do apologize, but yesterday was Dread's 2nd Birthday anniversary since the launch on February 15th, 2018. What a wild ride it has been in that period of time and I can't thank you all enough for making it was it is today. There is a lot more planned from here and we hope to continue providing a great community space for a variety of discussion with privacy and anonymity respected. To recap on a few things: I initially intended to build Dread as a small security discussion board, extremely niche and expected a capacity of around 1,000 users, which I thought as ambitious. The need for the type of platform, based on the Reddit format became realized when some large communities were blanket banned from Reddit and it felt like there was a lot more to come, oh boy was I right. We've faced every manner of FUD by many people who would have a lot to gain from Dread's demise and have stuck to the beliefs that were the foundation of the platform, managing it as best I can whilst having tasks to work on surrounding the site every single day since. The delusional Narco of "Gangsta's Paradise" who set out on a crazy FUD campaign posting spam to Dread daily for a LITERAL year after launch until he took it too far and I had to put an end to his cess pool of a forum. http://dreadditevelidot.onion/post/952223d5220a6e625fa1 He's been quiet for a while but opened "DarkNetStats" a literal Darknet Fake News site. The most prolific issue we have faced has definitely been the DoS attacks and whilst seemingly being the only service to actually overcome the attacks outside of mirror rotation has been a fantastic achievement, something we're proud of and which definitely wouldn't be possible without IQ 1000 /u/Paris Some current stats to see the scale of things too: User accounts: 121,194 Available posts: 93,285 Removed/Unapproved posts: 35,767 Available comments: 658,119 Removed/Unapproved comments: 45,685 Active Communities: 574 Removed/Banned Communities: 5 Sorry this post has been so late, we have an amazing announcement coming very shortly which I hoped to have ready yesterday so held out on any posts relating to the Birthday, stay tuned for big news! Thanks guys!
For more information about what is Dread and where to find working links please visit our Dread Forum page