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Unlimited free bandwidth!* (*Some limitations apply.)
We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes developing the next-generation of our core hosting technology, and we’re ready to move it to public testing. It has some exciting new features: TLS...
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Significant pricing updates are coming soon
I’ve started and stopped writing a bunch of posts over the past few weeks. Recent events have really crystallized some issues that we’ve been looking at for over a year. Those posts are largely...
View ArticleAct now: The latest effort to censor you (FOSTA) is here!
The US House of Representatives has just passed a bill called FOSTA (the “Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act”). This bill is headed to the senate. It needs to be stopped. This bill is, as the name...
View ArticleMaintenance for Christmas
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are the lowest-usage days of the year (both in terms of member activity and in terms of visits to member sites), so we are going to roll out some core system upgrades...
View ArticleFree Speech in 2021
So, a bunch of people suddenly discovered they care deeply about free speech immediately after a handful of racists faced even mild consequences for plotting a literal insurrection. That does not...
View ArticleNearlyFreeSpeech.NET turns 20 today
The NearlyFreeSpeech.NET domain was registered on January 18, 2002. We’re 20 years old today. Wow! So much has changed between then and now. And so much hasn’t. Looking forward to the next 20!
View ArticleHey! What happened to 2023Q2?
You may have noticed that production sites with normal updates are being upgraded from 2022Q4 to 2023Q1, and non-production sites are being upgraded from 2023Q1 to 2023Q3. So what happened to 2023Q2?...
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Bigger, better, faster, more
I debated whether to write a humorous intro, but I’ve ultimately decided it’s more important to get succinct information out to everyone, so here’s the TLDR: Over the next few weeks, we will migrate...
View ArticleSmall Christmas upgrades
We’ve got a couple of small updates to announce today: One server type to rule them all? A forum facelift. The Kitchen Sink: One server type to rule them all? For quite some time, we have offered the...
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Automatic TLS is now a thing
We are rolling out new automatic TLS infrastructure that does not require members to set up or maintain anything. This means that, for new sites, aliases will get TLS automatically within a few minutes...
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