This is a free Student Development Pack from GitHub and their partners that is full of goodies. It's not for everyone, but it's perfect for anyone currently studying Computer Science or any other IT related course.
It was very popular in RyanTheAllmighty's deal almost 2 years ago, but some things are different like the DigitalOcean credit that is now $50 instead of $100.
GitHub have also added some extra requirements to be eligible so that former students can't exploit the deal.
Eligibility requirements
If you're a student aged 13+ and enrolled in a degree or diploma granting course of study, the GitHub Student Developer Pack is for you. All you need is a school-issued email address, valid student identification card, or other official proof of enrollment
Full list of freebies
Atom Hackable Text Editor A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
Open Source by GitHub, free for everyoneAWS Educate Access to the AWS cloud, free training, and collaboration resources
Student Developer Pack members receive $15 in bonus AWS credits for a total of $50-$115Bitnami Install cloud applications in a single click
Business 3 plan (normally $49/month) for one yearCrowdFlower Crowdsourcing and data enrichment platform
Access to the Crowdflower platformDigital Ocean Simple cloud hosting, built for developers
$50 in platform credit for new usersDNSimple Simple DNS management with one-click services and a robust API
Personal hosted DNS plan (normally $5/month) for two yearsGithub Powerful collaboration, code review, and code management
Micro account (normally $7/month) with five private repositories while you're a studentHackhands Live programming help available 24/7
$25 in platform creditMicrosoft Azure A suite of Microsoft Azure cloud services and developer tools, including the Visual Studio IDE
Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio Community 2015 and the rest of the Microsoft developer tools while you’re a studentNamecheap Affordable registration, hosting, and domain management
One year domain name registration on the .me TLD (normally $18.99/year), One year SSL certificate (normally $9/year)Orchestrate A complete database portfolio that includes search, time-series events, geolocation and graph queries through an API
Developer account (normally $49/month) while you're a studentSendGrid Email infrastructure as a service
Student plan 15K free emails/month (normally limited to 200 free emails/day) while you're a studentStripe Web and mobile payments, built for developers
Waived transaction fees on first $1000 in revenue processedTravis CI Continuous integration platform for open source and private projects
Private builds (normally $69/month) while you're a studentUdacity Enroll in a Nanodegree program, and launch your career in Web and Mobile Development, Machine Learning, Data Science, and more.
Student Developer Pack members get one month free access to any Nanodegree program (normally $199)Unreal Engine A complete suite of game development tools for PC, console, mobile, web and VR
Unreal Engine while you're a student
Probably for the forum since this has existed for over a year. Especially since, as you say, it's actually worse than it was before in some ways.