I might not have much of a horse in this race as someone that only really plays Minecraft once in a blue moon (and normally swiftly puts it down because I’m not that kind of creative and I get too stressed out from survival mode), but honestly, I’m not a fan.

This says it all. This person should simply shut the fuck up and not be a games journalist.

I sync my watch history with trakt.tv – I believe there are plugins for both Plex and Jellyfin which can transfer those watch histories via that service. I don’t know of any other way.

Revolt is F/OSS

https://github.com/revoltchat/

It’s not just a company with a clone of Discord, all the server back end, etc is open.

Highly suggest putting Caddy on a machine, forwarding port 443 and 80 to caddy, and then letting it do your reverse-proxy stuff. Register a domain name, give it your IP address, and then tell caddy that ‘immich.yourdomain.bleh’ goes to port 78789 and plex goes to ‘media.yourdomain.bleh’ port 89898 – Caddy handles all of the TLS stuff, handshaking, you name it - so you can have secure sites with proper certs.

Then make sure those things are isolated from your home network through vlans if your router supports it.

You can get fancier with it using a tailscale and getting some datacenter IP to forward into your network

This is or was part of their anti-spam/flooding protection. In the server admin dashboard, you can require a phone number on the account or you can disable it and allow users without verified phone numbers to participate.

They do not require this just for a discord account last I checked. It’s likely due to whatever discord server you’re trying to join.

Same for Twitch. Same for a Microsoft account. It’s become the new normal.

Sorry, but chalk this up to lesson learned. It’s almost always been this way. Domain squatters will do this all the time. In fact, some domain registrars will use you searching their site for an ‘available’ domain, and if you don’t buy it up right away – will buy it and hike the price and sit on it for years in order to lock it down, knowing you wanted it.

btw, Namecheap says Sunglocto dot com is like $10 - so just register a .com. Not through that Epik piece of shit that you used before. Legit, use Namecheap; they’ve never done me wrong and have been my registrar for more than a decade now.