Statement by Kami — Operator of FNP
I, Kami, am the founder and sole operator of FNP, launched in early September 2023. This statement is my personal account of events leading to the project's closure. 11th may 2026.
- Background
I launched FNP with no prior experience with the UNIT3D codebase, server administration, or the established tracker community. I built and operated the site alone, depending on a small number of external individuals for development and operational help. That dependency shaped much of what followed.
- Paid work and the HDVinnie relationship
Over roughly 22 months I made repeated payments — totalling in excess of US$6,000 — to an individual operating as HDVinnie, for development work, security, server tuning, and feature implementation. Some payments were framed as donations; others were direct invoices for specific work. In multiple cases, work was promised, paid for, and either not delivered, delivered substantially later, or rolled into public releases rather than as the bespoke work I had paid for.
When I challenged this, the relationship deteriorated quickly. A damaging public thread about FNP was posted on Reddit's r/trackers; the posts were later deleted, but I retain records of the payments, the conversations, and screenshots of the posts. Among these is a post in which he publicly stated he was in possession of a copy of FNP's database — material I had not authorised him to retain, taken during paid work where he had been granted server access in good faith as a developer associated with the UNIT3D codebase. I continued the working relationship after that because my technical dependency gave me no realistic alternative at the time. I considered the recurring pattern of paid "features" coercive, even when each request was individually framed as voluntary.
- Reddit visibility and a paid moderator
FNP's visibility depended heavily on tracker-related Reddit communities, particularly r/trackers and r/OpenSignups. After an internal dispute, FNP was banned from r/OpenSignups under a stated reason of "vote manipulation and deception." I dispute that characterisation; the ban materially reduced FNP's growth.
I subsequently entered into paid arrangements with a developer publicly known under the names lexical and zakary, who also moderates r/trackers under the username aglimpseoftruth. Over approximately the last six months of 2025 and two months of 2026, I paid this individual roughly US$600–700 — for two promotional posts and a series of smaller monthly payments framed as personal support. Some prior posts negatively referencing FNP were removed during this period and have since reappeared.
This means promotional access on a moderated subreddit was directly tied to private financial transfers with one of that subreddit's moderators. I am placing this on record as an undisclosed conflict of interest in how tracker communities are promoted on Reddit. I also observed disproportionate unsolicited promotion of certain trackers in those spaces during the same period.
- Staff and access instability
Several individuals held trusted technical roles on FNP. Two former Sysops (x64 and afunnylookingsquash) departed and joined staff at the competing tracker LST. Their departures coincided with periods of coordinated public criticism of FNP — most notably around LST's anniversary in June 2025, and now again as that same anniversary period approaches.
A third individual, Chevron, held Sysop-level access including administrative permissions on FNP's Cloudflare account. Issues during this individual's tenure included:
Reporting FNP's server to the hosting provider on at least one occasion following a moderation decision I made.
An extended absence of approximately one year while retaining staff status.
Returning to active involvement in late 2025 and pushing significant changes to the site's user-group structure that I did not approve of, after which daily site engagement visibly dropped.
Maintaining private internal "notes" on individual members, the purpose of which was never adequately explained to me.
A pattern of behaviour I read, in retrospect, as deliberately provocative.
Additionally, FNP's internal invite log shows entries presented as recruitment from the private tracker MyAnonamouse (MAM), listing usernames including kokorfe, hell2525, and unhinged98. FNP has never operated a recruitment thread on MAM — this can be independently verified by any MAM member or staff, as no such thread exists. The naming pattern of these invite entries was, in my reading, deliberately chosen to provoke a response from me. A screenshot of the relevant invite log is included here:
https://ibb.co/WNwH0tmq - even if there was a invite thread granted recently, i can assure you that these are all Chevron playing games.
As of this statement, this individual still holds infrastructure access I have not been able to safely revoke. My concern in revoking it is credible risk of retaliatory hosting reports and denial-of-service attacks against the site, based on past precedent, but in 30 minutes it will be offline with no trace left.
- Security incidents
In late 2024, FNP suffered a sustained DDoS attack that materially disrupted service. I paid approximately US$300-500 for protection that proved largely ineffective (to HDVinnie). The attack was resolved only after a group of individuals (including Chevron, x64, and anabol) offered assistance and recommended migration to Cloudflare. That migration effectively transferred the most critical operational lever of the site to that same group, whose alignment with my interests later came into question.
In recent weeks, further external reports have been made against the site's operations, causing additional disruption. I cannot prove who initiated them, but the timing aligns with the disputes outlined above.
- Direction of the platform
Over the most recent months, the chatbox and on-site community tone shifted in a direction I had neither approved nor endorsed, driven by staff with elevated access through moderation choices and structural changes. FNP was launched and grew as a general tracker; I do not believe it should serve as a vehicle for any single ideological, political, or cultural agenda. By the time the shift was visible to me, I was no longer in a position to reverse it without provoking retaliation against the site itself, again by Chevron.
- Personal impact
I am autistic, I have run this site alone, and FNP has effectively been the entirety of my life for nearly three years. The combination of:
repeated financial losses for undelivered work,
coordinated reputational attacks online,
staff who left FNP for competing trackers after gaining access,
denial-of-service attacks and external host reports,
loss of control over critical infrastructure (Cloudflare, payment processing),
and a sustained pattern of provocation directed at me personally,
has had a serious and lasting effect on my mental health. I no longer have the operational control, the financial cushion, or the personal capacity to continue running the site under these conditions.
- Decision
For the reasons above, I am closing FNP. This is not a reaction to any single event but the cumulative result of a sustained pattern of pressure, financial extraction, infrastructure capture, and reputational attack carried out by identifiable individuals — not communities, groups, or abstractions. The named persons are named here because of their specific actions, and I stand behind the description of those actions to the best of my recollection and on the basis of records I retain.
This statement is my personal account, made in good faith and to the best of my knowledge.
- Closing
This is my final involvement with the tracker community. I will not be active on any private tracker, forum, or related platform going forward, and I will not be monitoring any email accounts previously associated with FNP or this project. Any messages sent after the site is offline will go unread. I have made peace with stepping away completely.
I wish everyone — members, staff, and even those named in this statement — well in their own paths. The work I put into FNP was real, and the community that grew around it, however briefly, was real too. That part I'll carry with me.
For anyone reading this who wants to run their own private tracker: the underlying software (UNIT3D) is open source, and setting up your own instance is well within reach. I am leaving a fresh-install script for Ubuntu 22.04 here that gets you to a working tracker in roughly 30 minutes:
https://rentry.co/29usageb
If you run into problems during the install, ChatGPT or Claude can walk you through almost any error you'll hit — paste the error, ask for the fix, repeat. Be your own admin. Don't outsource the keys to your own project to anyone who hasn't earned them.
Goodbye, and take care.
— Kami
