VidLii

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6 Aug 2025

Hi, this is Aniki. Since November 2024 I have been a VidLii co-owner - today I am taking over as its new full owner. Don't worry - I don't plan on making any big changes. Please read my blog post Saying Goodbye to lolwut if you want to learn more. www.vidlii.com/blog

The site is back up.

At a very inconvenient time, our host is doing unplanned maintenance. It shouldn't take more than a few hours, but we're in contact with the host and getting updates.

vidlii.comVidLii - Display yourself.VidLii is a revival of the style, spirit, and creative freedom of old YouTube. We welcome everyone to relive the golden age of YouTube with support for the original, 2010, and Cosmic Panda designs.

VidLii is back online! We've upgraded to the latest PHP patch and we haven't seen any other working vulnerabilities on it. As a precaution, we're only opening our main domain back up, we're leaving the non-Cloudflare domains down for a few more days just in case.

fedi.katze.shElise (@elise@katze.sh)Attached: 1 image still works on 8.5.12!

It looks like there are more vulnerabilities that aren't fixed in the patch. We're going to hold off for a day before putting the site back up to see what else surfaces. Reference: fedi.katze.sh/@elise/11747...

vidlii.comGumi Shooting | For da speedpaint contest - VidLiihi this is my submission for the contest

PHP patches were released. We're just waiting for the new version to become available on Docker Hub and we'll be back up.

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A high severity PHP vulnerability was just released without a patch yet. VidLii uses PHP, so we're closing the site temporarily as a precaution until a patch is available. Sorry for the inconvenience, it should be back up very soon.

The winner of our art contest is corvatsch! www.vidlii.com/watch?v=zUsX... We'd also like to congratulate 2nd place winner ShyStudios and 3rd place winner pjqnv. corvatsch very generously donated her prize to bigotes.org to help pay for cancer treatment for pjqnv's friend's cat. :)

vidlii.comShowcase your drawings!Do you draw or paint? Then this contest is for you... > You can show off as much of your art portfolio as you want, but you have to RECORD YOURSELF drawing/painting at least one piece (e.g. a timelap...

Today is the last day to vote on the art contest. www.vidlii.com/contest/show...

Voting is open for the art contest! www.vidlii.com/contest/show...

Tomorrow is the last chance for you to submit a video to our drawing contest for a chance to win $25! www.vidlii.com/contest/show...

We had a bug in the login page that made some people unable to log in. It is now fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We're doing some planned maintenance on the site. It should be back up in less than an hour.

I'm late replying to this, but it was done in about 20 minutes.

vidlii.comA VidLii Halloween Contest - VidLiiA quick video going over the rules of VidLii's first-ever Halloween Contest, "A VidLii Halloween". More details can be found on the contest ...

20 Sept

Our Halloween contest has also started! This one is hosted by community member Milkdrinker. Video submissions end on October 24th and voting ends on Halloween. www.vidlii.com/watch?v=NPUq...

17 Sept

We have a new contest - Showcase your drawings! Submissions are open until Oct 1 and the prize is $25. www.vidlii.com/contest/show...

discord.ggJoin the VidLii Announcements Discord Server!Check out the VidLii Announcements community on Discord - hang out with 23 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

14 Sept

We have a read only Discord where VidLii announcements are posted. If Discord is more convenient for you than Bluesky then you can join here: discord.gg/rZEpdcfNmz All announcements will still be posted here so joining is completely optional.

vidlii.comDestructive CriticismThis is VidLii's first rant contest. The rules are as follows: - It has to be funny - The subject of your rant cannot be a member of VidLii (especially not @SkibidiCoffee) - It has to have been ma...

22 Aug

Voting is now open on the rant contest! www.vidlii.com/contest/dest...

19 Aug

Today is the last day to submit a video to the rant contest!

3 Aug

We've added some extra security measures and our alt domains off Cloudflare for privacy and independence reasons. See the VidLii blog for more details.

3 July

The site is back online and registrations work again. Sorry for the annoyance.

3 July

Our host is doing some unplanned network maintenance. We'll be back soon.

vidlii.comBlog - VidLiiWatch, upload and share your favorite videos with the entire world in an easy to use and friendly environment.

27 June

We have a new blog post explaining our copyright policies in detail: vidlii.com/blog It clarifies what we remove, how we handle DMCA notices, and why we're removing TV shows and movies. TL;DR: We have to follow the law and we don't want to be sued for a billion dollars by Viacom like YouTube was.

27 June

Just to clarify - the new announcement about copyright is not a new rule. We are just enforcing the rules we already have and reducing abuse. There are many channels that just upload TV shows and anime and use our website as a piracy streaming service. We are not a free cartoon streaming site. 1/2

27 June

If you don't upload unedited TV shows or anime episodes then you don't need to do anything. This is just about removing blatant piracy channels that treat VidLii as their personal Plex server. We've even seen piracy websites embed VidLii as mirrors for cartoons to avoid takedowns. 1/2

25 June

Just a heads up - it's always been against the rules to upload TV shows and movies but we're going to be taking it more seriously soon. We're giving everyone a two week notice to remove any TV shows before we do. This doesn't effect content like YTPs or anything you remixed - that's fair use.

25 June

Anything we find after the notice will be removed but no strikes will be given. But - if you unlist those uploads to hide them instead of removing them then we may deliver strikes or terminations.

16 June

You can now finally block users with private channels!

13 June

For anyone who wants extra security for their account, we now support 2FA. Visit the Manage Account page to set it up.

VidLii is back online!

2FA is done. The site will be back within an hour.

Almost done with 2FA. We'll be back soon.

Backup restoration is just about done. It took longer than expected, but we've decided to wait until tomorrow to put the site back up after we finish 2FA. Sorry for the delay.

Update: We believe we have identified the culprit. What we know is the culprit compromised a moderator's Gmail account, other accounts, and likely their computer. Those were then used those to gain access to VidLii's moderator tools. Only emails have been accessed; no IP addresses or passwords.

Going as far as to hack an innocent person's Gmail just to get back at a website for getting banned isn't a line anyone expected would get crossed. Expectations need to be adjusted, I guess.

We're still restoring from backup, it's just slow. We should be back up today.

This is VidLii's dev, BF3k. It looks like one of our moderators was hacked and their account was used to access our moderation tools. I'm still investigating. 🧵

The moderator's access has been removed and I'm working on restoring the site from a daily backup.

The site should be back up in a few hours.

This is VidLii's dev, BF3k. It looks like one of our moderators was hacked and their account was used to access our moderation tools. I'm still investigating. 🧵

Right now, it appears that a limited number of emails may have been exposed through scraping of our moderation dashboards. No other personal data appears to have been exposed.

4 June

VidLii is 9 years old today!

1 June

Only one more day to submit a video to the 9 years contest!

vidlii.com9 Years of VidLiiJune 4th is VidLii's 9th birthday! It's amazing that this site has been able to stay alive for so long - who would have thought? This contest celebrates 9 years of VidLii, 9 years of community, and 9...

13 May

VidLii's 9th birthday is June 4th! Submit a video wishing the site a happy birthday for our 9th anniversary contest! www.vidlii.com/contest/9-ye...