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Europe Outage

deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago

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.

Poll
What continent do you live in?
North America29%28
Antarctica29%28
Europe25%24
South America4%4
Asia4%4
Australia4%4
Africa2%2
94 votes
AdmiralAkbarCerealabout 8 years ago
#KiwiLivesMatter
blacksnakemoanabout 8 years ago
Oceania is a geographic region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania

Continent of Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_(continent)

List of continents where Oceania is only used (incorrectly) in two models

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number

If it helps, New Zealand is a part of Oceania, but New Zealand is on it's own sunken continent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia
Devanteabout 8 years ago
U prob don’t need to pause the round, since lucid wont be fixing the problem anytime soon.

Don’t those Europeans have the World Cup which they will invest every waking hour of the next few months watching anyways ?
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BeepBeepLettuceabout 8 years ago
blacksnakemoan
BeepBeepLettuce
jimmaster
Heres a trick question is australia a country or a continent no googles allowed
technically oceania is the continent
lol no
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deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
One could say this site just had a huge euruption.
blacksnakemoanabout 8 years ago
BeepBeepLettuce
jimmaster
Heres a trick question is australia a country or a continent no googles allowed
technically oceania is the continent
lol no
BeepBeepLettuceabout 8 years ago
jimmaster
Heres a trick question is australia a country or a continent no googles allowed
technically oceania is the continent
peachabout 8 years ago
both...??? ?
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ImScummyabout 8 years ago
jimmaster
Heres a trick question is australia a country or a continent no googles allowed
It's a phat island
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jimmasterabout 8 years ago
Heres a trick question is australia a country or a continent no googles allowed
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BeepBeepLettuceabout 8 years ago
Bebop
phillip wang wanna be thanos so bad BIG DRAINS :x
as SHERK, Zhuorb, or Devante would say, underrated post
Songinabout 8 years ago
lol europe
MeetTerryabout 8 years ago
europoors btfo
peachabout 8 years ago
ur also assuming europeans are capable of understanding the concept of "voting"
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blacksnakemoanabout 8 years ago
originoflove
How do you expect to get accurate results in your pie chart when there are virtually no users from Europe currently able to access the site?
you're assuming we want accuracy
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deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
originoflove
How do you expect to get accurate results in your pie chart when there are virtually no users from Europe currently able to access the site?
unfortunately we'll just have to work w what we have!
originofloveabout 8 years ago
How do you expect to get accurate results in your pie chart when there are virtually no users from Europe currently able to access the site?
Vapidabout 8 years ago
Is this why I heard P0rnhub is offering a free VPN called VPNHub? So they don't have to comply with the new terms of service? Wow, wolf in sheep clothing.
Bebopabout 8 years ago
phillip wang wanna be thanos so bad BIG DRAINS :x
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peachabout 8 years ago
by banning all europeans god has finally made epicmafia a safe space
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ivanaabout 8 years ago
I have a lot of questions for Ally the moderator!
viewabout 8 years ago
easiest way is dl a vpn app like openvpn and use mobile
deleteddeletedabout 8 years ago
SENPAl
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?
i don't really know enough to answer this but basically what it boils down to is that lucid is too lazy to do anything like this so he just axed european access
BeepBeepLettuceabout 8 years ago
@Ally you silly nobody can tell you if they are in europe because they're banned
Bebopabout 8 years ago
ok well we can just ban your accounts thanks for exposing yourself
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