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Rule Changes and Site Improvements

Golden Rule Change: Banning "Unofficial Recruitment"
Previously, we allowed users to offer GGn invites in class-restricted invite forums of other private trackers on their own initiative. Being a relatively old practice, this has lead to numerous issues with unreliable invitees in recent years, even allowing bad actors easy entry into the tracker. Effective immediately, we're finally disallowing this practice. Users may no longer offer GGn invites in private tracker forums. Invites may only be used to invite people you know personally and trust, not strangers that qualified for certain criteria on another tracker. The relevant golden rule and the invite rules are adjusted accordingly:
Trading and selling invites is strictly prohibited, as is offering them in public - this includes other private trackers and chat groups. Please view the Invite Rules for detailed information.
Verified Dumps: Trumping Scene and Platform-Specific Requirements
We are making two big changes for Verified Dumps that include specific requirements per platform and Verified Dumps trumping scene uploads in most platforms. Apart from the DOS, Windows, and most newer consoler platforms, Verified Dumps will trump scene releases of the same content. The new changes can be viewed in the Verified Dump Upload Requirements wiki article. A detailed explanation about these changes and the reasoning behind them can be found in the Rule Changelog.

This is a big change. Accordingly, we have created a thread where additional ideas and suggestions for the Verified Dump Upload Requirements wiki article can be suggested: Verified Dumps: Trumping Scene and Platform-Specific Requirements.

API Improvements
We have recently made numerous improvements to our still in beta API. Everyone can now create their own API keys at the bottom of the profile settings with a selection of specific endpoint permissions. In addition to numerous smaller fixes and improvements, we have also added new endpoints for items, crafting recipes, site log, user log, and various search types. If you would like to help build the API by suggesting new endpoints and improvements, please use the API Changes / Improvements thread. For more information on the API itself, including the new API key permissions, please refer to the JSON API Documentation.

Site Stability Improvements
Finally, we are happy to announce substantial improvements we have made to our DB. As a result, recent stability issues including 502s, some tools not working correctly, and incorrect tracker/seeding values should now finally be resolved. Tracker stats should stabilize over the coming days and report correct values once again. If there are still remaining issues, please feel free to point them out in the bugs forum.

GGn Staff