We are moving all Atari Lynx related content over to Atari Lynx Vault and all our shop content over to K-Retro Gaming. Please update your bookmarks!
As a result of this change, the following will no longer be available: Online Lynx Emulator, Collection Tracker, Game Ratings, News. If you are interested in contributing content to Atari Lynx Vault, we are seeking editors and maintainers.
Why is this happening? First - the Atari Gamer branding is changing to K-Retro Gaming to allow us to expand to providing games, replacement parts, and mod services to other game consoles. And second - The content management system running Atari Gamer is out of date and Google AppEngine (where the website runs) will no longer allow it to run after the 30th January 2024, so in order to preserve all content we switched to a new and modern content management system and chose a website domain that better suits the subject matter. Since we are operating this website in our spare time, on top of full time family and job committments, some features had to be dropped.
Both Facebook and Google have been threatening the Australian Government to take drastic measures to it's proposed law that would require social media giants to pay for links to news content. Overnight, Facebook took a drastic step to pre-emptively start blocking all news content on its platform. This wasn't limited to just news and media company pages, it affected emergency services, Government information pages and yes... RETRO GAME PAGES!
Atari Gamer's, page was caught up in this too (yes we are from Australia if you didn't know!). If you are from Australia, none of the page content is appearing any longer. Apparently international visitors still have access to posts though...
This is what we have to say to Facebook in response...
In addition, we went ahead and created a Discord server, which we will start using more and more to share content and keep in touch with all of you. Please join us at this URL: https://discord.gg/SnDrdJTkUk.
You can read more about the message Facebook has created here - Facebook blocks Australian users from viewing or sharing news.
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