Since the release of CheatsDB 2.0, we've continued working on the platform, improving existing features and building the systems that weren't quite ready for the initial launch. This update brings some of our biggest improvements yet, particularly to the Organization Database, the introduction of a dedicated Reseller Database, and the way users interact with the platform.

We've also spent a considerable amount of time working behind the scenes, redesigning parts of the backend and polishing the overall user experience.

There's quite a lot to cover, so let's take a look at the highlights.

Redesigned Organization Database

The Organization Database has received a major overhaul.

We've redesigned the way organizations are presented and made it easier to browse software providers, explore their products, and compare their reputation across the platform.

Organizations can now be explored using filters such as Game, Rating, and Trust Score.

Redesigned Organization Pages

Alongside the database itself, we've completely redesigned the organization pages.

The new layout brings together information that was previously scattered across different product listings, making it easier to get a broader picture of an organization.

You can now explore an organization's product catalog, check its overall community rating and Trust Score, review recorded violations, and browse the event history of its linked products.

We've also improved the organization management experience, making it easier for representatives to maintain their information through CheatsDB Dashboard. There's still room for improvement, but this redesign is a significant step toward making organization pages more useful for both regular users and software providers.

New Reseller Database

We've introduced a dedicated Reseller Database, something we've been planning for quite some time.

Until now, CheatsDB has primarily focused on individual software products and the organizations behind them. However, choosing the right product is only part of the process. Finding a reliable place to purchase it can be just as important.

The Reseller Database page follows the same structure as the Organization Database page, with a few key differences. Resellers do not have a Trust Score by definition. Instead, they use a classification system similar to the one used for products.

New Reseller Pages

Of course, a new database wouldn't be particularly useful without dedicated pages for the resellers themselves. Each reseller can now have its own profile, bringing together its offers, community reviews, and recorded violations.

Reseller pages follow a structure similar to Organization pages, with a few key differences. Unlike Organizations, Resellers do not have an Insights section. Instead, their pages feature an advanced product catalog and a dedicated review section, where users can leave feedback based on their experiences with the reseller.

Spotlight-Style Search Bar

Finding your way around CheatsDB should be simple, especially as the platform continues to grow.

That's why we've introduced a new global search experience inspired by Spotlight.

Instead of navigating through multiple pages, you can now use a single search interface to quickly find software databases, specific products, organizations, resellers, and useful pages across CheatsDB.

The interface also supports keyboard navigation, making it more convenient for those who prefer using shortcuts rather than clicking through menus.
It's a relatively simple addition, but one that we believe makes everyday navigation noticeably better.

Violation System

Transparency has always been an important part of what we're trying to build with CheatsDB. With this update, we're introducing a dedicated Violation System for organizations & resellers.

Visually, the system follows a similar approach to our existing Events system. Each organization or reseller can have multiple recorded violations, with individual details available for every case. However, violations come with a few unique mechanics.

Each violation has one of two statuses, Active or Resolved, along with a Severity Score ranging from 1 to 10, depending on the seriousness of the infraction.

If an organization or reseller gets 10 or more severity points, the consequences are applied automatically:

• Organizations: All products associated with the organization are moved to the Scam classification in their respective software databases.

• Resellers: The reseller itself is moved to the Scam category in the Reseller Database.

All violations and their details are publicly accessible. You can find them in the Violations section of the sidebar on organization and reseller pages. For organizations, recorded violations are also displayed on their linked product pages.

Each violation links to a dedicated thread in our Violations forum, where users can review the incident and its available details.

Older incidents for which complete supporting evidence has been lost over time will most likely not be documented on forums.

Discord Logs Are Back!

Good news for those who like to stay up to date with everything happening on CheatsDB!

We've brought back our Discord Logs system, and this time it's more advanced than ever. This feature allows you to receive instant notifications whenever changes are made to our databases, helping you stay informed without constantly checking the website for updates.

For now, this functionality is exclusive to our Discord server, making it one of the easiest ways to keep track of what's happening across CheatsDB.

Other Improvements & Bug Fixes Worth Mentioning

Alongside the major additions, we've made quite a few smaller improvements and fixes across CheatsDB. Here are some worth highlighting:

• Added indicators for Verified, Detected, and Down products.

• Added support for filter parameters in URLs, allowing you to share your current filter settings with others or save it for later use.

• Added new empty-state placeholders for reviews, offers, products, and other sections across the platform.

• Improved filtering in the Pricing & Sellers section. Only available subscription plans are now displayed, and unavailable payment methods can no longer be selected.

• Improved the Pricing & Sellers layout on mobile devices.

• Improved the display of media content across the platform.

• Improved pop-up windows on mobile devices, fixing cases where desktop layouts were displayed instead.

• Fixed an issue where the Event Timeline window wouldn't close when clicking outside of it.

We're still actively developing CheatsDB, and there are plenty of things we'd like to improve further. With an update of this size, some issues may also have slipped through our testing.

If you notice something that doesn't work as expected, or have suggestions for improving existing features, we'd appreciate your feedback. You can share it through our forum, or Discord server.

Thanks to everyone who continues to follow and support CheatsDB. We hope you enjoy the update!

Stay tuned for more!

This update is a real transition to a new version of CheatsDB and a massive improvement across almost every part of the platform. Almost everything has been reworked, except for a few systems that are currently waiting for their turn.

Because of that, writing a fully detailed changelog would take more than a single day. Instead, we will show you the main new features and leave some room for you to explore the platform yourself.

CheatsDB 2.0 Update Trailer

Some of the new features were already shown in our official trailer. If you have not seen it yet, you can watch it below.

New Platform Architecture

You have probably already noticed that the forum is now located on the community subdomain, while the main part of the website is located on the main domain.

Unfortunately, our previous plan was to build the entire ecosystem inside the forum engine. Over time, this approach started to look less and less practical. Halfway through development, we decided to rethink the whole idea and came to the conclusion that the main functional part of the website should be developed from scratch, without relying on third-party engines.

At the same time, the login system, users, groups, and forum will continue to run through the forum engine. Because of this, when you log in on the main part of the website, you will be redirected to the forum first and then returned back to the main site.

This architecture will help us scale much faster and implement many of the ideas we already have planned.

Updated Forum Engine

As you can see, the forum has been completely refreshed and now has a more modern and professional design.

However, in terms of user-facing functionality, it has been simplified for now. We will gradually add the necessary applications and features back, but our main focus will remain on the main part of the website.

Software Database Page

This section is fairly simple.

One of the new additions is the product counter for each category. We also separated categories into Games and Software.

The search bar has been removed, but this is temporary. We may bring it back directly to this page, but we are also already working on a global search system that will search across all platform systems, similar to Spotlight on MacOS.

Product List Page

This page has received a major redesign while keeping a similar structure, with a few important changes. We collected feedback over the past few years and used it to improve the page.

This page now contains the following parameters:

• Number of listed products across all groups.

• Last update date, which is updated automatically.
  At the moment, this value is not fully accurate and only updates when new products are added. This will be fixed in the next update.

• List of assigned maintainers.

Product list:

• Product number.

• Product name. This refers to the product itself, not the organization, although in most cases they are the same.

• Trust Score, synced with organizations. The Trust Score system itself is currently being reworked.

• Rating, based on all reviews.

• Detection, which displays the Detection Rate and End Date of the latest detection. If the End Date is not set, it is automatically extended indefinitely until the event is resolved.

• Style, which is the short name of the Playstyle.

• Features, which currently display the following parameters: HWID Spoofer, Streamproof, Private, and Limited.

• Compatibility, which displays the following parameters: Supported Windows, Supported Linux, Product Type, and Supported CPU.

• Payment Methods, show all available payment methods across all offers.

• Price, shows the minimum product price across all offers.

Filtering System

With this new feature, finding the product you need has become much easier. We added a basic set of filters, which should be enough for the first version. If something important is missing, let us know and we may add the required filter.

At the moment, filtering by Trust Score does not work. This will be fixed in the next update.

New List Display View

Since displaying the full table properly on mobile devices is almost impossible, this new display view became a very useful addition.

We also believe that many desktop users will actively use it as well. In the future, this view will be improved further so closed cards do not look as empty as they currently do.

Product Page

We tried to create a clean page that is not overloaded, while still keeping it informative. We will only cover the main features that may raise questions or were not shown in the trailer.

CheatsDB Review section

This section is only displayed if the product has been verified by us.

It is worth mentioning that all products verified during V1 have lost this status and now require re-verification.

This section is controlled either by management or by maintainers. Visually, it looks almost identical to the user reviews below, but it carries slightly more weight because it represents the official CheatsDB review of the product.

Status & User Actions Side-Bar Panel

User Actions are requests submitted through forms.

Status is more interesting. It has three states.

• Safe to use means that, based on the information available to us, the product can currently be used without major known issues.

• Warning means that we have received a certain number of reports over the last 7 days. For now, this threshold is 5 reports per product, after which the status changes. There are limits in place that prevent a single user from submitting more than one report.

• Alert means that we have information indicating that the product has an active detection, or that a detection was resolved less than two weeks ago.

Event Timeline

The Event Timeline displays product releases, detections, downtimes, and discontinuations.

Detections & Downtimes contain the most detailed information. We display both their Start and End dates. To avoid questions from the community and organizations themselves, we provide evidence in the form of screenshots and descriptions.

Some dates, especially End Dates, may not always be fully accurate.
For example, we may have a confirmed detection Start Date, but no confirmed date when it was resolved. In such cases, we usually set the End Date to 30 days after the Start Date, unless we have information confirming that the issue was resolved sooner.

Features List

CheatsDB can now display product features.

At the moment, this information is only available for a small number of products because filling out this section takes a lot of time. However, the feature itself is useful.

In the future, organizations or resellers will be able to fill out this section themselves, while users will be able to filter products by the features they need.

Pricing & Sellers

This feature is not fully developed yet and may not be very useful at first, since only a limited number of sellers will be added initially. However, the system has a lot of potential in the future.

Imagine looking for the best offer for Exception or Reported Spoofer across dozens of sellers, while filtering by payment method, price, and the lowest possible fee for your selected payment method.

This system will become much more useful once we develop the Reseller Database and Organization Database. These systems will be almost autonomous and will not require constant involvement from the CheatsDB team, as they will be managed by representatives themselves.

For now, you can suggest trusted sellers for products by using User Actions and submitting a request.

User Reviews

This section is dedicated to one of the most important parts of the platform - real user experience that is not controlled by providers or resellers.

You can share your genuine experience with a product without being afraid that it will be removed just because it is negative. This experience is collected over time and does not disappear after another Discord server termination. It will also be reviewed by us for validity as a neutral middleman.

Please note that when leaving a review, you must follow the platform rules. Most importantly, your review should be based on real experience, should not include insults, and should contain valid proof of purchase (as well as proof of usage if possible).

Evidence can be made public by selecting the checkbox at the end of the review form. Otherwise, it will only be visible to you and the maintainers.

Database Request Center

This is our support and request processing center.

Since CheatsDB is focused on being community-driven, we developed a professional system for handling reports, corrections, and suggestions.

A request can be created in just a few minutes and processed just as quickly by the first maintainer who sees it. This is much better than private Discord messages or an outdated forum-based system, which does not make much sense for this kind of workflow.

Each request is structured and designed for convenient processing.

Inside every request, there is a Chat that remains active while the request has the Processing or On Hold status.

That is all for now. This update overview can be considered complete.

What you have seen is not a fully finished product yet, but rather a strong foundation that we plan to continue building over the next two months by adding core features and systems for more efficient expansion.

Please note that the platform is still in active development, and some previous functionality will not be available at first. However, work on bringing it back is already in progress. We are looking forward to receiving your feedback and bug reports if you find anything. You can submit them either on the forum or in our Discord.

Stay with us and stay tuned for future updates!