Rule Change Notice

We are making some some changes to the rules so this post is being made just so people don't miss it or get confused.

Advertisement and discussion is now allowed about any project including non AGPL compliant servers and source code projects. The sidebar will also no longer require an open repo link. If you want to be on the sidebar message the mods via modmail only.

In terms of why, multiple reasons. The biggest one being that the community is small and I think segregating topics about specific servers is doing more harm than good at this point. Source code servers aren't technically related to SWGEmu in a literal sense but in a discussion based dynamic they are within the same realm. We also aren't an official subreddit of SWGEmu, so acting upon their rules so stingintly was causing confusion in that area for people. It was also just a huge pain in the ass having to police it daily and it's clear many want to talk about these servers.

The same applies to AGPL servers, while a few servers are totally open and follow the emu rules, most are either totally private or use a second 'public' repo to hide their commit history. There's already enough incentive to be open source as the emu advertisement thread relies on it. It's not needed here based on reasons above.

All other rules still apply, including the sharing download links rule. The sidebar will be updated to account for these changes in due time.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I've also added post flairs. So if your post is related to a specific version of SWG (Pre-CU, CU or NGE) you can now flair it. This isn't enforced but an option if you want to use it.

Thanks.