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YouTube sends a message

13 August 2026

This week YouTube announced some sweeping changes to its monetization policies.

Since I doubt many people reading this column are earning money from uploading YouTube videos you might wonder why this could be important to you.

Well this change will also affect each and every person who merely watches YouTube videos. What the platform is doing may well have far-reaching negative effects on the type, variety and quality of content you get to watch.

This change also reinforces my predictions that YouTube as we've known and loved it for over 20 years, will soon change forever.

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Forums are Down

Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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