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You've probably noticed that a lot of websites are making some privacy enhancements lately since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation is taking effect this month. Since Star Army has EU members, Star Army is also going to going to do its best to follow the law and while there's not really many changes SARP needs to make (since we're not really in the business of collecting personally-identifiable user data like a certain social media giant), I will be making adjustments to things like...

 

Hello Star Army! I've just Star Army forum's database so our board now supports emoji and other UTF8mb4 characters!

 

This weekend I will install Xenforo 2. In preparation for this I need to uninstall all the styles and add-ons so I removed most of them today. Goodbye classic Ghost Nebula!

Also based on feedback I've removed the Facebook "like" button from the page so it won't spy on you.

 

I've just received this thrilling news tonight that the YSS Kaiyo II, which @Ametheliana has been running as Game Master, has been honored with one of the highest honors in online roleplaying, the Simming Prize.

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Here is the description of the Simming Prize from their website:

The Simming Prize is the Nobel Prize of the play-by-post online role-playing ("simming") community. (Or at least we like to think so!)

Up to five Prizes are bestowed each year to...​

 

There are some serious problems with Facebook and how it basically makes its money by gathering the personal details of your life and sells them to advertisers, and also how it was involved in Russian government's interference in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

PART 1: Facebook's Privacy Problem

• https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/deletefacebook/
• https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...urveillance-company-rebranded-as-social-media...