Jan, 23 2025¶
Introduction¶
If you're unfamiliar with what these reports, they are typically to notify Users that an Organization had to disclose info for DMCA Requests/Law Enforcement Requests/DDoS Attacks or if they suffered a data breach.
We plan to expand on that idea to give us a chance to be more transparent with our shimming community, Instead of being another opaque organization that tells you to pound sand every chance they get.
So? What are you going to do differently?¶
We are going to include stuff such as Internal Drama/Raids/Ban/Kick/Network Punishments/Inquiries by staff and our community
Our Site¶
Hello, as you may know, we lost the funding for our current site. If you didn’t know, we were paying up to $50/mo for our new site/forums, so… We’re looking at our options. There are some paths we could go down, so let's lay them out.
- We Keep the current site/forum with the uncertainty of keeping it up
- Scale down the current site so we can drop it to $24/mo but lose the forum
- Scale down the current site And switch Forums to an Open source one
- Make a whole new site and forum and drop it down to $10/mo
So let’s break everything down except the first point, which is self-explanatory. So what do we mean by scaling down? We’ll remove the forum and delete your accounts. And you won’t be able to log in anymore; next there's scaling down and switching the forums to an open-source one, meaning we can use whatever provider we want and can host for much cheaper, dropping our cost down to $29/mo. And then there’s the last point. Make a whole new site and forum, and there’s a massive problem with that: we don’t know HTML. The reason we’re paying so much is we made that site with a website builder, meaning we have to put up with the price they give us; we can’t just export the site and host it ourselves. And if you're wondering, yes, we’ve looked for open-source ones, and all of them were painstakingly unintuitive or cost too much. We left out WordPress, which is PHP and a pain to get running on bare metal, a.k.a. our own hardware, and it just sucks because we are sick of paying so much.
Donations?¶
TBH, we have been running back and forth on the idea of having the ability to donate to us via Liberapay, but we never had set it up because we were debating if we wanted to, but I guess if people really want to chip in and give us a hand, I guess we can; we will make an announcement if we do so.
That's it!¶
This is our first-ever transparency report. We hope you appreciate a look into SCN, and we hope we can make more of these and keep you informed and feeling more connected with our shimmering community. Stay safe!