Epicmafia

Europe Outage

deletedalmost 6 years

As some of you may have heard or noticed for yourself, the site is currently down over a vast majority of Europe. This is due to the GDPR coming into effect. For those of you that don't know, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new regulation in EU law regarding data protection and privacy.

We are unsure of the impact that this will continue to have on Epicmafia, and we cannot give you a definite answer on when the site will be back up for those affected. Lucid is aware of the problem.

The round has been paused for two days to wait it out and allow Europeans to get in contact with people and ask what's going on or use VPNs to access the site. After midnight tonight, the round will be unpaused and we will carry on as normal. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We'll update you guys if we learn anything else. If you have any questions, feel free to ask below or PM a moderator.

deletedalmost 6 years

i use private vpns get on my level

Bebop

almost 6 years

can a banned user please get all the working vpns banned by association so that

a. i have an excuse for not doing reports this week
b. disgusting europeans can no longer use the site

many thanks
- bebop

BeepBeepLettuce

almost 6 years

https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-VPN

SENPAl

almost 6 years

Okay, I don't know sh!t about GDPR, but I assume that if e.g. a US citizen take a visit to the EU (or just gets on a proxy) it won't suddenly make GDPR apply to them the same way as if they were EU citizens, even though they're going to have an EU IP address.
So what about just putting it in terms of service that EU citizens aren't allowed to use the site? Or putting a notification about it on the mainpage? Or make everyone tick a box stating they're not EU citizens? Would that really be any less efficient than banning ips, which actually clearly doesn't have much to do with residency?

BeepBeepLettuce

almost 6 years

nice to know our Antarctican community is active

deletedalmost 6 years

Also if anyone would like to offer advice on setting up a VPN feel free to do so here I know literally nothing about it and will gladly post a tutorial in the OP or something