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Momohomo wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2026 11:56 pm what if flokinet eventually caves if it alraedy has come to action that blizzard is aware of them? to me it seems too much depends on them currently and you guys should work out some fallback setup

Kestrel wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2026 11:54 pm It has come to our attention that the largest of our community Discord servers has been shut down after an unjust and absurd legal threat was made against the community member(s) who run it.

The OctoWoW team has no additional insight into this incident, and we have no control or special access to any of the community run Disord servers.

This is a stark reminder of why Discord, social media accounts, and even services like Cloudflare are not safe for any private server archivist/creator.

We also want to take this time to re-iterate our gratefulness for our service provider FlokiNet. The last few weeks have been tough, and part of that is the trade off we made when we architected this anonymous structure.

We have seen some in the community lament the speed at which we are able to get hardware changes made. We view this as a worthy trade off for the security and anonymity that we have. Our service provider FlokiNet has been instrumental to our ability to host the server, and they have been supportive of our legal rights in a way that most providers could never.

One of our first correspondences (over three months ago) with the FlokiNet Support Team was them forwarding us a domain name dispute Blizzard made in an attempt to gain control of our domain. This included a (standard) €1,000 dispute fee that would be paid by Blizzard if they complied. FlokiNet threw the documents in the trash so to speak.

Dracarusggotham wrote: Wed Sep 09, 2026 12:01 am

Kestrel wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2026 11:54 pm It has come to our attention that the largest of our community Discord servers has been shut down after an unjust and absurd legal threat was made against the community member(s) who run it.

The OctoWoW team has no additional insight into this incident, and we have no control or special access to any of the community run Disord servers.

This is a stark reminder of why Discord, social media accounts, and even services like Cloudflare are not safe for any private server archivist/creator.

We also want to take this time to re-iterate our gratefulness for our service provider FlokiNet. The last few weeks have been tough, and part of that is the trade off we made when we architected this anonymous structure.

We have seen some in the community lament the speed at which we are able to get hardware changes made. We view this as a worthy trade off for the security and anonymity that we have. Our service provider FlokiNet has been instrumental to our ability to host the server, and they have been supportive of our legal rights in a way that most providers could never.

One of our first correspondences (over three months ago) with the FlokiNet Support Team was them forwarding us a domain name dispute Blizzard made in an attempt to gain control of our domain. This included a (standard) €1,000 dispute fee that would be paid by Blizzard if they complied. FlokiNet threw the documents in the trash so to speak.

I think a few words of hope would be very helpful to the community.

Could you confirm that, for the moment, the server is "safe" and that there are no serious threats beyond DDoS attacks?

I've seen several people worried that the server might experience a C&D in the coming days.