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Big Change Coming to Ape Apps User to User Communications
The legal landscape across the world is rapidly moving towards age verification requirements for any and all online services that provide user-to-user communication. As an independent developer, I don't particularly have the time or resources to implement this kind of stuff up to an acceptable legal standard, nor do I have any interest in keeping personal identity records for any of my users. You should not have to provide your real name or identity to play My Colony or track your spending with EZ Register. So, changes are coming.
I plan on phasing out all of my own in-house user communication service across the entirety of Ape Apps and instead, pushing users towards the Discord server or other social media sites. That includes the forums on this website, Ape Chat, the in-game chat in My Colony, everything. The following apps and services will be impacted:
Antiquitas
Ape Apps Launcher
Ape Apps Website
Ape Chat
Ape Market
Colony Wars
Discussions
Epic Adventure
EZ Office Apps
Forum Fiend
My Colony
My Colony 2
Terra Nova 4X
Walkie Cloud
Probably the largest pain-point will be the removal of the in-game chat for My Colony 1, which is utilized quite a bit, especially for users helping each other with resources. As a workaround, I will make improvements to the in-game Friends section to make it easier to add/manage friends and share resources, but you will still have to communicate using Discord instead.
Some services, such as Ape Chat, Discussions, Forum Fiend and Walkie Cloud will just be shut down entirely, as they really don't have any other features besides communication. Where communication is not an essential feature, changes will just be made to work around the issue and point people towards Discord where appropriate.
This website/forum will be another big change, although since the Discord came out the forum here has not been as important as it once was. I will probably rewrite it in a way to where I can just post helpful informational and help articles related to various apps and games. I might keep an archive on a subdomain of all of the current content though, for posterity.
In the end, I think this all kind of sucks to be honest. The writing has been on the wall for independent social services for a while now though, but over the last year especially, governments across the world seem to be amping up their "child protection" efforts to 10. I have never liked big tech, which is the reason I wrote my own forum and chat services from scratch, but I also don't have the time or money to keep chasing after new regulations, so we are just going to fall back to Discord for this kind of stuff moving forward and let them worry about it.
I will start phasing in these changes over the coming weeks and months, so if you have not joined the Discord yet, now would be a good time to do so, as it will be the primary Ape Apps communication platform moving forward!
#antiquitas #apeappslauncher #apechat #apemarket #colonywars #discissions #epicadventure #forumfiend #mycolony #mycolony2 #terranova4x #walkiecloud
I plan on phasing out all of my own in-house user communication service across the entirety of Ape Apps and instead, pushing users towards the Discord server or other social media sites. That includes the forums on this website, Ape Chat, the in-game chat in My Colony, everything. The following apps and services will be impacted:
Antiquitas
Ape Apps Launcher
Ape Apps Website
Ape Chat
Ape Market
Colony Wars
Discussions
Epic Adventure
EZ Office Apps
Forum Fiend
My Colony
My Colony 2
Terra Nova 4X
Walkie Cloud
Probably the largest pain-point will be the removal of the in-game chat for My Colony 1, which is utilized quite a bit, especially for users helping each other with resources. As a workaround, I will make improvements to the in-game Friends section to make it easier to add/manage friends and share resources, but you will still have to communicate using Discord instead.
Some services, such as Ape Chat, Discussions, Forum Fiend and Walkie Cloud will just be shut down entirely, as they really don't have any other features besides communication. Where communication is not an essential feature, changes will just be made to work around the issue and point people towards Discord where appropriate.
This website/forum will be another big change, although since the Discord came out the forum here has not been as important as it once was. I will probably rewrite it in a way to where I can just post helpful informational and help articles related to various apps and games. I might keep an archive on a subdomain of all of the current content though, for posterity.
In the end, I think this all kind of sucks to be honest. The writing has been on the wall for independent social services for a while now though, but over the last year especially, governments across the world seem to be amping up their "child protection" efforts to 10. I have never liked big tech, which is the reason I wrote my own forum and chat services from scratch, but I also don't have the time or money to keep chasing after new regulations, so we are just going to fall back to Discord for this kind of stuff moving forward and let them worry about it.
I will start phasing in these changes over the coming weeks and months, so if you have not joined the Discord yet, now would be a good time to do so, as it will be the primary Ape Apps communication platform moving forward!
#antiquitas #apeappslauncher #apechat #apemarket #colonywars #discissions #epicadventure #forumfiend #mycolony #mycolony2 #terranova4x #walkiecloud
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