I dont know which laws/regulations that bind the hosting services are applying her, but should not there be a fail safe for cases like?
I mean how often do payment services fuck something up? More than i can count, but then deleting everything without a notice and a deadline of 14 Days or so is just extremly bad and ruthless IT craftsmanship.

Hosting services that work like this deserve to go bankrupt

I agree. But then it takes two parties to form a dispute. The site was going to retire on 1/1/2025 anyways so it makes sense that the old team did not want to bother with fighting.

I'm a bit underwhelmed by the hosting company's actions as well - I could see pulling the plug on the connection to the Internet, but wiping the system so promptly seems a bit excessive... Once that happened though it wasn't a question of "fighting" it became a case of "recovery not possible" - according to my phone conversations with them, Talula and Paolo put a great deal of effort into attempting a recovery and it just was not possible...

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Don't want to say anything bad about the older EAv2, but working in the IT industry I will say that who ever the old hosting service was should never have been used.

The company I work with back things up hourly so if something as bad as a take down and delete happens they have a recovery area that is not that old.

EAv2 reached its End of Life and now we need to start making this place our new home.

Gosh, Jan 1 will get here none to soon for me, at which point I'll feel more free to talk about what was going on over there over the years behind the scenes. While the site vaporized early, I'll keep my commitment to not saying anything until their deadline has passed, if nothing else to maintain my own personal integrity on the matter.

At this point all the handwringing I'm seeing in here doesn't matter. While I commend the folks here for stepping up and doing what they've done here so far, there was also an opportunity for others, for the better part of a decade, to have stepped in and taken over the old system.

Nobody did.

Again, I'm grateful to Fusion and the others who have stepped up here. If you want this place to grow, I'd suggest evangelizing it in places where people who may be interested, congregate. To help, I'l start with a list you can consider:

Recon.com Though there is no real place to post broad messages other than on a profile and individually writing others with the interest.
Fetlife.com There are many discussion groups there which speak about these subjects.
Bluesky A lot like *cringe* Twitter/X *cringe* in that you can create a profile and evangelize using tags like #eunuch, etc.
Twitter/X Like the above.
Several Discord Discussions servers

That's a list to start. I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones I know of. I'd be sure to state if this new version is mobile browser friendly (IE Phones and tablets). I'm convinced the reason many younger folks didn't go to EA2 was that it wasn't mobile friendly, and let's be honest, that's how most people consume the Internet these days.

This forum is built mobile first. That way it works on all different sized mobile screens then scales up to Android Tablets/iPadOS and then to desktop.

That was one of my major issues over on EAv2 as I use my phone and tablet more these days and also my touch screen HP Elitebook.

To be honest I did offer my services over the years over at EAv2 but got ignore for one reason or another and again don't want to speak badly of the previous mods/admins.

I'm glad to see mobile compatibility. It's definitely important in the present era. It was a thorn in my side on the old system as well, and was one of the reasons I wanted to see something done years ago. Sadly, it never happened. I did not have access to the back-end of the system, so I couldn't do anything.

I'm just glad that some folks who have skills are working this now. It's an asset. As I've noted in the past, as a moderator on the old site, I'd prefer NOT to do that here. I think it's time for a fresh start, and you've definitely been up to the task. You're appreciated.

I tried to log on as well and couldn't .
This place is up and running just fine! Great job, guys!
I would volunteer to help, but I am on a terrible satelite connection, while I take care of my dad.

I know you are working very hard to bring up stories. I have been working on one, that I would like to share. I just figured out how to submit it. I am hoping to get it published or at least let down gently.

mounds_dont wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 7:50 am I tried to log on as well and couldn't .
This place is up and running just fine! Great job, guys!
I would volunteer to help, but I am on a terrible satelite connection, while I take care of my dad.

I know you are working very hard to bring up stories. I have been working on one, that I would like to share. I just figured out how to submit it. I am hoping to get it published or at least let down gently.

I just read it - and thought it was pretty good, nice plot, and well written except for one minor "thinko"... During the first dinner she is feeling flustered and "it was all she could do to run away and hide", which I think should be "to NOT run away and hide" from context.... I didn't notice any other specific spelling / grammar / word choice errors...

However it does hit the "edge case" on one thing, since we are generally not allowing "minor content" and you have our hero and his neighbor being nude at age 5... They aren't doing anything explicitly sexual, or otherwise 'improper' so it isn't a clear cut "no" like it would have been if our hero was getting fixed at that age.... However I'm not sure if Dandelion will pass it for posting or not...

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I had a tough time with the fight scene too.
I did try to keep everything within Fantasy Island cannon.
I'll correct the "think o"
Thank you for the review. That means a lot. We can put it away, until "legal" sorts things out.
If it does get rejected, I can always rewrite the kid's portion. Make that "PG".