Go here if you don't care about the drama and just want to go to a new website
Neo_Chip's: VGMTaku
zaykho's: Gravitrek
Or, go here if you are curious about the drama for some reason.
ffshrine emergency meet-up board
Have fun!
edited 6:25 PM EDT April 20, 2015
edited 6:27 PM EDT April 20, 2015
Also, 4chan is horrible, don't go there any more, it's mediocre at best, the nazi mods don't help.
Anyway, if you for some reason care about the drama, I'll make this EXTREMELY brief, the whole drama started with mysterious lockdowns with a ridiculous amount of money being asked by sarah, the lockdowns became more brief, now users are wondering where that money is going and she has yet to answer, there was speculation going around that it was to pay her taxes, no joke, it even got confirmed by one of the mods via easily accessible info.
The "30TB/month" figure is something Sarah has been quoting for years to get people to donate. It might have been accurate back in FFShrine's heyday (like 6 to 10 years ago), but there's no way it's accurate now. See: Reddit
and an analysis here:
Keep in mind that Galbadia Hotel (the part of the site that used to host video game soundtrack mp3's) hasn't been working since 2013, so Sarah is claiming that the FFShrine forums alone eat up about 1 TB/day of traffic. Obviously bullshit.
edited 1:04 PM EDT April 20, 2015
Sarah is banning users that are questioning the donation destination as shown in this thread.
She's going batshit with the purging and the site was having hiccups earlier.
Don't believe me, go here.
8chan
Anyway, locking down the site and asking for mandatory donations basically means paying to acess pirated content, they are beyond screwed.
Abandon Ship.
edited 6:28 PM EDT April 20, 2015
But I guess the whole /gamergatehq/ probably threw you off, it did for me as well but then I quickly got back on track and saw what they were trying to do in that specific thread.
Unless you mean her tweets and stuff, then yeah man, totally. It's all related when you mean it in that way, she's always trying to prove some kind of point, It still fazes me how she's uneducated about the whole thing though, I tried explaining it to her and just ignored me.
She really hates 8chan with a passion for some reason, she think it's all GG related. That's why I got perma'd, for linking 8chan. I had a good laugh and closed the tab.
edited 6:33 PM EDT April 20, 2015
A few months ago she was doxxed by an 8chan board named /baphomet/ which in turn blamed #GamerGate for said doxxing, then for some damn reason, sarah thought /baphomet/ or 8chan in general was gamergate and that they were the one doing the leaking and harrasing (Pro-Tip: They weren't) and that's how her life got turned upside down, now she's living with her girlfriend and violated dog in bel-air.
Some people won't really give a shit about this though, I don't blame them, they have better things to worry about, that's why I linked the two websites first, so in case ffshrine ever gets nuked for good then people can move onto those two in the foreseeable future.
Hope this helped.
I can't edit it in the OP anymore. Sorry.
Thank you though!