By the way, how do warnings work here and how are they different from bans?

>>88459 It's same as on 4chan, next time you try to post you see the warning once.

>>88456 I’m telling that to whatever mental midget is invoking the ghost of that one janny from /a/ talking about post quality and standards as if this isn’t a fucking anonymous image board and something like MGR. I’m also saying it to the shitlick who was acting like a schizoid from Smug ala the owner or some idiot from /pol/. The owner and moderators are not omniscient or omnipresent. If you don’t like something rather than feeding the fucking trolls you should R&I and move on with your life.

>>88475 >R&I and move on with your life. You should probably follow that advice as well. I don't even know half of those people you're talking about and I don't think it's relevant or important in any way.

>>88475 Holy shit, I forgot about the "posting standards" debacle. You don't happen to have the Waterworld images from that day, do you?>>88476 There's still precedence for pattern recognition. Monster Girls are niche enough that there will always be Anons going to and from other hubs. Smug's resident violent schizoid had a MASSIVE melty yesterday, right after the shit we had happen here. I know correlation =/= causation, but it's worth noting as at least an odd coincidence. In any case, with people that far gone, R&I is all you can do.

>>88477 No I don’t, but I miss those macros because they were comedy gold.

>>88477 I think this is exactly what >>88181 has said before. This is a growing board and we have all kinds of people coming here from all the places. Some of them are annoying. Some more than annoying. Personally I wish there would be more anons who post cool stories like that big greentext anon.

>>88477 >I know correlation =/= causation, but it's worth noting as at least an odd coincidence. Before you or anyone else jumps to weird conclusions and anons start throwing weird accusations around, roughly 90% of this debacle is classic Two Fags Fighting and after carefully checking I found no traces of foul play or anything that would suspect presence of a bad actor. Looks like things have been peaceful for too long and some anons forgot that autistic bickering is part and parcel of imageboard life. How /mge/ mod handles it in the thread is of course, up to him.

>>88476 Also brother man I only check on the threads every once a few days if that because I am busy touching grass and eating ass, as are likely other users. If I see somebody acting stupid and posting graphic detail about guns and monster girl viscera like he’s that same autistic fuck from the era of MGU that KC himself called out BY FUCKING NAME for putting severed heads on pikes I’m not about to give him the time of day and let the mod handle it. Simple as.

>>88495 There's nobody doing what you claim is being down and it's been said many times over. Calm down and have some goddamn whiskey, it'll help.

>>88497 You set ‘em up and I’ll knock them down Lloyd

Does anybody know how long was AO3 hard-locked behind Cloudflare? I was able to access it somewhere before April 20, without any issues, but now even trying to visit the site redirects me to Cloudflare face control.

>>88810 Dunno, works on my machine.

>>88811 Probably because you don't use Tor and/or fingerprinting resistance and we do. >>88810 I just checked, yes, it doesn't work in Tor. This looks a lot like I'm Under Attack mode, when the website owner sets their Cloudflare security to heightened state which results in practically blocking out all people using any kind of privacy and anonymity tools. To me, it looks like either 1. AO3 got attacked (not the first time BTW) and the staff temporarily heightened security. 2. Cloudflare themselves have changed something in their settings and now all CF-hosted websites such as AO3 require you to deanonymize and accept surveillance so you can use the website. 3. AO3 staff decided to accept the generous offer from the people that manage mass surveillance and deliberately set the highest "security" mode to force every AO3 user (and visitor) to deanonymize, accept tracking, etc.

>>88827 >and now all CF-hosted websites such as AO3 require you to deanonymize and accept surveillance so you can use the website. If it were the case, you'd be cockblocked from here too

>>88837 Is Capy on Cloudflare?

>>88840 Yeah duh.

By the way, someone please tell the wikifag to uncheck the "I'm Under Attack" flag from mgewiki. This is NOT the "easiest" setting, as he said earlier, and even according to CF themselves it's only a temporary measure that should be used during the short times when you're being actively DoSed or attacked. It is, in fact, one of the strongest website protections from CF. Either that or he should just admit he's intentionally locking out the users from his site and drop the "muh security" excuses.

>>88845 >someone please tell the wikifag to uncheck the "I'm Under Attack" flag from mgewiki Yeah, that's not happening anytime soon. He has very good reasons for it. Wiki used to be unusably slow and get constantly vandalized. There's a copy of the wiki in the nextcloud archive, under wiki resources. Your best bet would be to download them and consult the plain text pages from there, or go to an internet cafe and download the wikipages to view them offline.

>>88845 Anon, you're better off learning how to create a fake browsing profile you use separately from anything to do with your RL data because neither wikifag nor anyone else really will give a crap about your tinfoil hat browsing set up and accommodate for it. This will only get worse for you with time, pretty much guaranteed.

>>88827 I think AO3 has had a situation like this once, their "shields" (Cloudflare fingerprinting) preventing me from accessing the site. Also AO3 used to have their own stylized page for CF "papers, please" scripts. (Unlike now, where they redirect straight to CF's "Just a moment..." page.) Though, yes, there is reason to believe that AO3 might've caved to the Scientia Potentia Est practicioneers and decided to install a permanent blockpost aimed to block Tor users and prompt them to use a non-protected, non-anonymized connection to access the website. The haven't reported anything regarding a possible attack on otwstatus.org, either. Guess I'll wait and see. If they won't drop it in 7 days, means something fishy's going on.

>>88845 Except the wiki was vandalized constantly and he has no reason to do anything for you specifically, especially because he does this shit for free?

>>88905 Yeah this persists now. AO3 is now shut tight behind cloudflare and it's been for several days. There aren't any news about an attack or anything, so I think this is gonna be permanent now.

>>88810, >>89145 I just checked the last Cheshire story on AO3, https://archiveofourown.org/works/82233071, and using TOR it didn't give me the hard lockout or the face control redirect, just the standard Cloudflare check. That's not nothing, but it's a leagues better than handing them your biometrics.

>>89145 >>88905 >>88827 >>88810 Archive Of Our Own has simply made a deal with the data mining/surveillance groups, anons. I've seen this happening all the time with various "alt tech" websites, especially the "alternative" social media that have generous free speech policies. AO3 is a large fanwork repository, and a lot of those works have political context. Groups interested in mass population control (the government and its associates) would love to have control over a platform with 17 million users in it. >>89390 The "standard check" you're talking about is exactly the problem. It's designed to ID users visiting a website through extensive fingerprinting for further tracking. Also Tor users normally can't get through it (which means Tor fingerprinting protection works).

>>89458 Also remember, if you go outside, don't look up, or the satellites will get pictures of your face.

>>89458 Judging by that shill trying to ridicule you, you're right. *Sigh* It was a good two years. Guess I'll have to find an alternative platform. Unless the AO3 will undo their unexplained face control - which is unlikely, give that it happened out of the blue and without any explanation (no news about an attack on the site, and otwstatus shows all green).

Also. Is it just me, or the Nextcloud MGE archive got nuked? Trying to access it returns "Share not found..."

>>89523 >>89501

>>89458 >>89522 I'm not expecting a shift away from AO3 any time soon, but it may be worth setting up a backup archive just in case. I don't know how big the scope should be; I personally would be saving just stuff I liked or from local writefags.

>>89522 >>89539 You vill click ze square and you vill be happy

Well, right now I was able to get to AO3 through Tor, without being stopped by CF "captcha". I've tried 3 different Tor circuits and none have triggered the response you were mentioning. Problem solved?

>>89554 For now, I guess. Still, what happened? Why the Cloudflare blockpost? Why lasting for so long?

Speaking as someone running a website, this schizoposting around AO3 is hilarious. Most probable scenario is that they were having intermittent issues with bots hammering their servers and the under attack option gets turned on and off by some automated system. I was under similar scenario and temporary block solved it. You anons have no idea how tiny and unimportant minority you are, nobody is going to go through any effort just to get YOUR data, they can already eavesdrop on ~99% of the traffic if they wanted to. This is some reverse Occam's razor shit. inb4 I get called a shill, I fucking wish I worked at cloudflare.

>>89600 >You anons have no idea how tiny and unimportant minority you are, nobody is going to go through any effort just to get YOUR data, they can already eavesdrop on ~99% of the traffic if they wanted to. This is like saying you shouldn't try to seek shelter from a nuclear strike because whoever ordered it doesn't know who you are and has no reason to kill you alone in particular. Also, like with hardcore freetardism, even without being this extreme I think it's good to have people going to these lengths so the Overton window is wider.

>>89603 >This is like saying you shouldn't try to seek shelter from a nuclear strike because whoever ordered it doesn't know who you are and has no reason to kill you alone in particular. And you would be organizing 10 man protests against nuclear weapons that bystanders shake their heads at. Before you ask why do I care - I'm annoyed by this because I saw some schizo bother anons in /mge/ over posting YT links a while ago, most assuredly he's now bitching about the AO3 situation. Last thing we need is a tinfoil hatter put up a "backup" AO3 clone and start heckling writers to go there because he can't larp as a dissident in authoritarian shithole. This place was and still is much better off being disconnected from real life politics.

>>89613 >And you would be organizing 10 man protests against nuclear weapons that bystanders shake their heads at. Stopping a nuclear power with this few people is completely unfeasible, but building a shelter might work out. >Last thing we need is a tinfoil hatter put up a "backup" AO3 clone and start heckling writers to go there Like I said earlier, you can't expect writers to move unless AO3 completely goes to shit, but there's nothing wrong with setting up a repository hosting stories people cared about. At worst it'd be a waste of time of whoever was running it.

I suppose we do need a vigilante to put up a backup AO3 clone, after all. The interested parties are putting up one hell of an effort to ridicule and shun individuals concerned with preserving their privacy. >Relax, Citizen. You're too insignificant for anyone concerned. That is why we're throwing considerable resources into building personalized tools for tracking and cognitive correction. Remember, our system depends on everyone being inert and passive. People starting painful questions regarding personal privacy are annoying, because they raise the right questions and we can't beat those concerns with compelling reason. >Your silence and passivity are critical for our plans to work.

>>89618 Exactly. We've been through a similar discussion before, slightly less than two months ago. It might be nothing or it might be a sign of a platform implementing malicious - from the end-user's standpoint - measures. In either case, backup options are not only reasonable, but very desirable. Too bad there are no reasonable alternatives for AO3 at this point. Squidgeworld exists, but it's tight behind Cloudflare. There's a bunch of new sites, but they're a bit suspicious. TalesX.com, for example, doesn't even have a ToS / Privacy Policy section.

>>89620 Do what you want but fair warning: if you bother any writer about this, I will start nuking any mention of privacy paranoia from this board. The sole purpose here is facilitating monster girl discussions, everything else stays only as long as it doesn't interfere with the former. This is NOT a multipurpose free speech platform. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to collect my paychecks from WEF and NWO.

Something tells me the guy annoyed by the privacy talks is going to start harassing writers to silence this topic forever...

>>89651 >>89657 Speaking about privacy talks, and harassing writers in particular, the "Privacy mentions are annoying" guy was the only one actually mentioning fucking with people to get them to leave AO3. Both in this discussion and in the previous one, tied to AO3 outages in the beginning of March. He's also the guy who starts acting really annoying when someone mentions anything even remotely related to privacy. A good example would be an incident in one of the MGE Safe Space threads, when some poster complained about Youtube links not working in Tor. He was the one who started harassing him over being concerned with privacy, even though he wasn't talking about privacy issues.

By the way, what happens when this thread will reach post limit?

>>89688 I'll unpin it and make a new one

Hey, archive manager. You might want to update some of the links on your site; they lead to non-existing addresses.

>>90944 Which links?

>>90944 If it's about the /mge/ links, it's because of the technical problems last week and he didn't finish replacing the singular galleries. Main gallery has already been fixed, so you can use that in the meantime.

>>90967 I think he's talking about Neocities links, I just opened the Ryu gallery and it gave me "Share not found"

>>91120 Which one? The neocities ryu gallery just opens the regular ryu nexcloud archive.

>>91120 That's what I meant by "/mge/ links". >>91125 Looks like it's work in progress cause the Ryu gallery works for me too. I don't feel like going through all of them, but right now for example Blue Oni and Candlegeist are unavailable.