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Reminder: legacy version of channel database will be closed on 1st April

Due to security concerns, I am closing the old version of channel database . At 12:00 UTC, it will no longer be possible to use this URL to enter the channel database, instead you are going to see an error message. New version, which you will be able to access in the future, can be found here .

New application - Channel database Lite

Channel database has always been an important part of my website and now, in 2024, I have rewritten it from scratch in Yii2 framework. I have several reasons for doing this, but one important reason is that the old channel database apps were written in 2020, back when I wasn't as experienced with making PHP applications. The consequence of this is that the code of channel database is now very unreadable and over the years, there have been a lot of bugs, which I have found in the app. Architectually the problem was that about 90% of the code was on a single file and global variables were used everywhere. The situation was a little bit better on the very first versions, but there a lot of the code was duplicated, which created a situation in which changing something in the main view didn't apply to idea box and gallery. The situation got worse, when I discovered serious vulnerabilities in legacy non-Bootstrap versions (which is why I made them inaccessible). Channel databa

The URL of "Let's mine and craft" Minecraft blog is changing

Due to the fact that Freenom decided to stop offering .tk domains, it was no longer possible to reserve new .tk domains (which has been in effect for a while now). However, it was possible to manage existing domains and even renew them. Unfortunately now it is no longer possible to visit any website with the .tk TLD. Due to this I am forced to move my Minecraft blog to a new URL - minecraft.markusmaal.ee . As you can see, "Let's mine and craft" is a subdomain of markusmaal.ee now. This change does not effect Feedburner links.

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Deleting Twitter/X profile

Starting from next year, I'm going to delete my account on Twitter/X. This means that starting from January 2024, you will not be able to follow what I do using the social network site. Instead, I recommend you follow me through the following methods: markusmaal.ee - my primary website, I try to maintain it as long as possible :) YouTube - I exist on YouTube as @MarkusTegelane , @MarkusTegelanePlus , @hashMarkusTegelane , and @PAKTC channels, you can also follow what I do using the community tab (I also have the @MarkusMaal channel, altough there are a few public videos there) Odysee - @MarkusTegelane:8 mirror of my YouTube channel, no subtitles, videos are in the original language markustegelane-en.blogspot.com - my channel's official blog, the most important info about my channel is posted here, you can also follow through RSS: https://feeds.feedburner.com/markustegelane GitHub (development related stuff): https://github.com/MarkusMaal markusmc.tk - my Minecraft

Downloads on the markusmaal.ee website!

Starting from today, you can download stuff I've made from the markusmaal.ee website! For this, just click Downloads button, choose a desired category and the downloadable item. From the download page, you'll find the description, screenshots and download links with checksums!

Big changes coming to my YouTube channels

You may have noticed that I haven't posted any new videos throughout the last couple of months to MarkusTegelane, MarkusTegelane+ and Markus' stuff channels. That is because I haven't had a desire to make any new content to these channels. The motivation has been gone for various reasons, but two more important reasons are lower view counts and the fact that I haven't been satisfied with the quality of the past videos I've posted on my channels. Due to this, I am planning to make significant changes to all of the three main YouTube chanenls I manage - MarkusTegelane, MarkusTegelane+ and Markus' stuff. After these changes, the quality of the videos should become consistent and thus improve. One change for MarkusTegelane and MarkusTegelane+ may be a large channel name and overall branding change. It's also possible that a huge chunk of the videos, which are currently public, may become unlisted and/or private. I am also planning to delete the entirety of th