HackForums has turned into a cesspool filled with get rich quick scheme scambooks if I'm being honest. It really started going downhill when prominent members with good software started to get caught like AppleJ4ck, Meow, Shockwave, Aeonhack, etc... the crypting services on Hackforums are awful, the tools are bad nowadays filled with just 1 click hacking shit for noobs, very rarely does something actually good surface there anymore.
Ever since then people just use it to sell their scambooks. Its probably why I get so many stupid messages on discord about people wanting to sell me their graphic designs all the time. They bought a get rich quick scheme from HackForums and it tells them to go advertise a graphic design service to random people on discord and then have an AI generate the artwork they want. Shits toxic as fuck now. HackForums been a dead end since 2016 or so.