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Originally Posted by Kalcor I don't watch anything on utube unless there are no alternatives. If there's a time to support alternative platforms, it's now. It's impossible for Googoyle or utube to come back from the hole they've dug for themselves. They decided to play partisan politics, on what should be open platforms, and nobody will ever forget.

I agree with the fact that utube and Googoyle have monopolized their platforms, but preventing traffic from the sa-mp forums is not that huge of a change for utube or Googoyle, compared to what they get on daily basis. It is penalizing the community more than it is penalizing their platforms. I understand your point from earlier when you said that regardless of how big it is, a change should have been brought to start lowering the traffic of these platforms, but how much traffic are we preventing in the first place? How many other communities have taken this approach without considering the effect it got on its own members?

The feature of uploading in these forums is a solution, but not so efficient due to the limitations it comes with. I never edited any of the videos I uploaded, now I will have to fully modify it, lower the resolution, size, quality, and make sure it is properly encoded.

While others had a more harsh approach on you regarding their opinion, I would suggest putting yourself in their shoes when thinking about the impact it has had on tutorials and showcase videos. If you search on utube anything related to SA:MP tutorials, you will see the vast number of results there is. Now consider that all these people still looking for a tutorial will have to go directly there and look for one, instead of trafficking inside these forums. So technically, you are not fully preventing the traffic as you first thought you were.

At the end of the day, it's your forum, as you previously said, and changes go without saying. However, it is a major change that should be considered from a larger perspective than just yours.

And what's your opinion on DuckDuckGo?