YoungCity
YoungCity provided a supportive environment where boylovers, girllovers, and others interested in childlove can share thoughts, opinions, feelings, and experiences. Its forums are online meeting places where questions, advice, and debates take place freely in an atmosphere of comfort and mutual respect, and where educational material and information about boylove can be shared.[1]
YoungCity was closed down by their host during the ending half of January 2018, and is no longer active.
The early days
Young City opened to posters on February 28, 2010. It was founded by Tabris, with technical help from the BoyLover.net member formerly known as "Maxy".
The original group of members were made up of people made "homeless" due to the demise of BoyLover.net in November 2009. These people were able to keep in touch with one another during YoungCity's development thanks to a temporary board, "Tabbykins", which was hastily and heroically set up by Tabris shortly afterward. It was members of this board, BLn refugees all, that comprised the original membership of YoungCity. This was why that, despite the official mission that this be a childlove board, the majority of the membership were BLs.
History
Founded by Tabris, YoungCity was opened to the public on 28 February, 2010. Many original members were, in essence, refugees after BoyLover.net went offline in November 2009. Tabris originally set up a temporary board, Tabbykins, until he had YoungCity fully ready.
After Tabris decided to step away from the board scene Underdog took over as owner for a brief period of time before turning it over to PartiBoi. With the help of Boi Helper, PartiBoi ran the board for the majority of its life. In July 2016 PartiBoi stepped away and many feared YoungCity was lost forever.
On August 16, 2016 YoungCity reopened its doors thanks to a new owner, Humanist Zombie. With the help of previous YC staff the board was recreated, re-hosted, and reopened.[1]
Security
The board staff took security and privacy issues very seriously. Precautions included:
- The main forum was SSL encrypted.
- Members were encouraged to use TOR or VPN when using the forum.
- IP addresses were never logged on the forum, nor are any incoming IP addresses during registration. As a result, no member of staff could see anyone's IP address.
- All incoming registration emails addresses and usernames were checked with various sources (such as Facebook, search engines, etc.) to verify that the information provided isn’t linking to any real-world accounts. Any account found that linked to personal information of a member, they were messaged by their Guide, suggesting that they change their information to safeguard their privacy.
- Inactive member accounts were regularly purged.
- The board was moderated diligently to ensure content was legal in most international jurisdictions, while allowing members as much freedom to express themselves as was considered safe.
- The use of the board's facilities for any illegal activity was strictly prohibited, and any member who placed the board at risk by engaging in such activity had their membership to terminated immediately.
- Regular security updates were posted by management to ensure members were kept up to date with both the latest threats to their security and to keep them advised of the latest recommendations for combating current threats.
