Hello everyone,

This is a post I never wanted to make but recently the UK government passed the Online Safety Act which forces websites to follow a strict framework in relation to user created content, even going as far as requiring users to submit proof of identity which I feel would compromise user privacy and go against the principles of a free and open internet.

I do not have the resources to implement the required framework and so cannot comply with this law, therefore I have made the difficult decision to block GoneGothic to visitors from the United Kingdom, which also affects me as that's where I live.

I now need to consider whether I want to continue to keep GoneGothic online or retire the community once and for all.

I only hope the site has in some way made the lives of the users better and I always enjoy hearing stories from members about how it has impacted their lives.

Lastly, thank you to everyone who supported the site over the years and contributed to making it a community I've been proud to be part of.

Dav

I've finally got around to redesigning the forum index so that the latest 5 topics of each forum will be listed. Also this page is now mobile responsive!

Most of the changes since the last update have been behind the scenes and shouldn't be noticeable from the frontend of the site.

Here is a list of the latest changes:

• Added a new content parser for comments and posts.
• Removed all mention of ratings from the site
• Removed the ability to hide comments on profiles
• Major behind the scenes updates

Cya!

This round of changes has focused more on removing poorly implemented/utilised features in an effort to allow me to spend more time working on the features members want once the mobile optimisations are completely rolled out.

Here is a list of the latest changes:

• Updated the style of comments displayed on profile and comment pages
• Removed the ability to send a user an email from their profile
• Removed the ability to privatize/deprivatize comments
• Removed the privatize, deprivatize and add buddy links from comments
• Removed the table of random smilies above comment forms
• Removed the ability to send group comments
• Removed cloaked comments (Private comments now function in the same way as cloaked comments did)
• Removed the ability to rate a user (This may be temporary, I'd like to hear your thoughts!)
• Many database changes
• Update server and third party components

Cheers!