That's basically it, sorry for any inconvenience. I was bored and just found your discussion amusing but you're right I have no fucking clue what is this all about, besides that it really seems you wanted your site to be granted a special treatment nobody else seems to be getting, just because you're allegedly offering something that worths it -although not enough to their eyes. I'm out, and please excuse me again, it wasn't my intention to spread any misinformation but just to state why it's not that weird that F95 staff won't hear your pretensions. Good luck with your project.
Hey, it's all good. To offer a super quick explanation, we create torrents and we accept donations. With these donations we rent a bunch of servers so we can offer a few things. 1) the torrents are fast, 2) the torrents are permanent. It also allows us to do things like not run ads or experiment with cool open-source stuff.
The accounts thing is a measure we took to protect our users and our network. Fundamentally, it's not right for us to provide bandwidth to third-party sites which was heavily abused when the torrents were public. Having accounts solves that.
The only issue is moderators here don't like it, but that's also fine because we're instead just going to go above them to the Administrators and they can decide once and for all. We've waited and been patient and at this stage, we just want a yes or no because we need to plan ahead too. If admins say yes, great, users here get an alternative download option that they can rely on. If admins say no, that's fine too - we're going to continue doing what we're doing regardless.
For what it's worth, you're right too. The ideal solution is granting us an exemption. It's win/win for everyone involved. Staff get a filehost handed to them on a plate, users get a torrent option and we get to push more bandwidth.
Currently? Yes, though I have not checked your service since it closed besides checking that one free torrent you made for a dev.
Wow, didn't expect you to admit to something like that. I dunno what to say, maybe check it before you decide on an opinion/stance?
I'm actually kinda speechless.
Just forget the whole thing to be honest. If you'd have stated this at the start you'd have saved both of us a bunch of time because there's no point in me arguing our case for something you haven't even bothered to look at. If anyone wants the reason why I reached out to the Admins, it's because of stuff like this.