Hi everyone.
This forum is now also available via https, thanks to letsencrypt. This way, your passwords and email addresses will be protected from eavesdropping. Just head to
https://www.ganggarrison.com/forums and try it out! Let me know of anything doesn't work for you - I already know that youtube embeds are broken via https right now, and will work on fixing that. I want to make https mandatory in a bit, so it would be best if you check soon.
There will be more changes very soon, in order to make this forum compliant with the new rules of the EU GDPR which will start to be enforced a week from now. There is quite a bit of panic about these new regulations in the air because the fines can be severe, and there is still a lot of uncertainty about how this law should be interpreted for many specific questions. Many small communities are actually closing down because of this.
However, the purpose of this regulation is not to cripple small, noncommercial communities like ours, but to help people to regain control of their personal data from corporations, which is something I fully support. Furthermore, we don't sell your data or use it for anything else other than to provide the services of this forum. So I refuse to accept that taking down the forums and all its history and great content should be necessary, and have instead started on the research, paperwork and technical measures necessary to keep the forces of evil lawyers at bay. Wish me luck.