BLAST.HK: moderation, projects and community

BLAST.HK (BlastHack) is the largest Russian-speaking forum about GTA: San Andreas and SA:MP modding. MoonLoader, SAMPFUNCS and many other tools came from there. I registered on October 28, 2017 as Pakulichev; the same account is now called ImPasha (BLAST.HK profile).

Moderation and helping users#

I became a "verified" user on March 27, 2019, a section moderator on June 27, 2019, and a global moderator from August 27, 2020 to September 23, 2023. As a moderator I kept order in sections and threads, helped with questions about Lua, MoonLoader, SA:MP, PHP and JavaScript, wrote rules for giveaways, contests and promotions and ran them.

Profile stats#

Improvements and tools for BLAST.HK#

For the forum I wrote the BlastPHP PHP library: sign-in, posting, avatars. The @Pakulichev BOT forum bot ran on it. I also made modifications for the BLAST.HK site and tools for forum users.

Publications#

What I published on the forum:

• the Police Tools source code, about 10,000 lines, one of the largest open-source MoonLoader projects;
• SL:MP, an exclusive thread about developing a multiplayer in Lua;
• ImGUI Editor, an open-source visual editor for mimgui;
• a guide to SNET, a networking interface over UDP;
• "Clean Lua code formatting", a code style guide;
• "Installing and running SAMP on Linux" for Linux users;
• a live SA:MP map in the browser.

Contests and patronage#

I sponsored The SA:MP Coder, the annual SA:MP development contest on BLAST.HK run by lemonager, in 2022 and 2023. Sponsors of forum events get the "Patron" award, and I have it too.

Today#

I still visit BLAST.HK, just less often. These days I work on web services and server infrastructure.