Techlore's New Home: Our Platform Transition & What's Next

Big news: Techlore has a new home. Everything is now consolidated at techlore.tech, powered by Ghost. But there's difficult news too: we're closing our public forum.

What's happening to the forum

As of today, our forum is read-only. It will remain accessible until June 1, 2026 so you can export your data and reference valuable threads. After that, all user data will be automatically deleted. Users can still DM each other to exchange contact info if they wish.

This was an incredibly difficult decision we went back & forth on for months. The forum has been a space where many of you connected, shared knowledge, and built relationships around privacy and digital rights. Losing that hurts—not just for the community, but for us too.

But here's the reality we faced: As a 2-person team, we haven't been able to give the forum the attention it deserves to thrive as a space that serves everyone well. Forums require sustained focus, energy, and care—energy we need to direct toward our core mission.

And right now, that mission is more urgent than ever.

Why we're making this change

We're seeing an explosion of interest in our work for digital rights advocacy.

Over the past year, we've been deeply involved in Chat Control, age verification laws, VPN bans, and other critical threats to digital freedom. The response has been overwhelming. People are waking up, policymakers are paying attention, and we need to step up.

Between video content, our new newsletter, two podcasts, Go Incognito updates, and advocacy work, we had to focus our limited bandwidth where it matters most: creating content and fighting for your digital rights.

What Ghost brings you

Ghost consolidates everything in one place and gives you complete control over what you follow:

• 🏡 Everything unified: Videos, blog posts, Surveillance Report, Techlore Talks, newsletter, and memberships—all at techlore.tech.
• 🎛️ Granular RSS control: This is huge. It means you choose exactly what you want to see.
  • Only want Surveillance Report? Just follow: techlore.tech/tag/surveillance-report/rss/
• Want blog posts but not videos? Follow the blog feed.
• We list all ways to follow different things via RSS on our page here.
• 📰 Digital Rights Digest: Our new newsletter: Threats to your freedom and how to fight back. A five-minute weekly read, 100% free. This is your direct line to everything we publish, all in one place. Sign up here.
• 🔧 Dedicated resource tools (coming soon): Our resources are getting proper homes as standalone websites:
  • vpn.techlore.tech - VPN comparison chart
  • privacytools.techlore.tech - Curated privacy resources
  • quiz.techlore.tech - Privacy/SPA quiz
  • Right now these redirect to our old site during the transition, but dedicated versions are coming soon.

Where to connect now

👉 Digital Rights Digest (free newsletter): Get all our content delivered directly
👉 YouTube livestream Q&As: Every week—resuming in a few weeks after this transition
👉 YouTube/PeerTube comments: Engage directly with every video
👉 Signal group: For our Techlorians who want real-time discussion

And while we can't manage our own forum, we encourage you to explore other privacy-focused communities that align with your interests. Our resources page at privacytools.techlore.tech lists projects and tools we trust.

Forum data & privacy

Your forum data will be automatically deleted on June 1, 2026. We encourage everyone to let this happen automatically, no action is needed.

However, if you want to anonymize your account sooner, or download your personal data, you can do so here:

• discuss.techlore.tech/u/YOUR-USERNAME/preferences/account (replace YOUR-USERNAME with your forum username)

We have thousands of users and are working hard to make this transition smooth. If we miss anything, just let us know!

Paid members (Techlorians)

Your subscription migrated to Ghost automatically. Nothing changes with billing—same Stripe, same price, same perks. Just log in at techlore.tech with your same forum/Techlorian email (magic link, no password).

Your membership includes all Ghost features plus your existing perks: Signal group access, priority livestream Q&As, early access to content, and more.

What's next for Techlore

This consolidation means doing more of what matters:

• More videos: 8-10+ per month (up from 6-8)
• Consistent Surveillance Report: 4 episodes/month with deeper analysis
• Advocacy work: Fighting Chat Control, age verification, VPN bans
• Techlore Talks: Catching up on expert interviews
• Weekly livestreams: Resuming soon
• Techlore Clips: Our clips channel resuming
• Go Incognito v2: Major course updates coming
• Nextcloud series: Finishing this by popular demand
• Dedicated resource tools: Proper standalone websites

A final word

I know change is hard, especially when it means losing a community space. If the forum mattered to you, I'm genuinely sorry we couldn't sustain it in a way that served everyone well.

But I'm also excited, really excited, about what this consolidation enables. More content. Sharper advocacy. And a more sustainable path forward for the mission that brought us all together in the first place: fighting for digital rights and empowering people to take control of their digital lives.

Thank you for being part of this journey. I hope you'll join us here at our new home. And thank you everyone for making what we're doing possible. The fight continues!

Henry & The Techlore Team

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