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It depends also by the hosting, altervista is a free one, so not so good. Hackers attempted with my site too, but it has gone bad for them as the company on my back is rock solid, plus backups are made on a schedule by the Bluehost VPS staff. An sql administrator must always be careful with scriptin...

You just can't put anything on the same plane and for the most of things you are wrong, people is not so ignorant to not get informed on what they are spending. funny that alcoholic aneddoct, thought

Alexei meant the ones downloading for months with no contributions nor even clicking the thank button. Sharing is done for the enjoyment of other people, not getting thanked or accumulating Thanks which is just a meaningless number that raises used to discriminate people. We have different points o...

Sharing is about having something of value and giving it to other people, if people don't have anything of value to share it's disrespectful to tag them as "grabbers", and say they don't contribute, because what are you going to contribute if you have nothing to contribute? Dividing people in "shar...

I agree. There were all the Playchess engines tournaments of every day since 2017. Plus alot of valuable free books to fight against and new or updated engines. Some of us tried our best to give a fair service in the name of chess nothing more nothing less, If the forum has gone then it will be a lo...

If the forum is really gone is a tragedy even for me, being a remote "grabber".

I guess no serious opening book is made just translating games into book format, there's always: a) a human selection of games b) a human sorting of that selection (as chess opening books compilers use the First Comes First Served algorythm, so there is a hierarchy bound to the sorting in the making...

You are saying that recruit and captain should have the same privileges the world doesn't work like this, my friend.

The spirit of sharing is to ask nothing in return. Otherwise you're selling, even if you're not selling for money. The system was meritocratic and I can't see anything bad about it. The more you share, the higher you go. The best thing in MZ Chess is the people that share. I hope that if MZ is one ...

Well, the private attachment thing has a sense: only contributing users can get those resources (although they could reupload the stuff to mirror sites). This was made to push the user to bring something useful, and I have to admit that worked as they have the most high quality games around the Inte...