The guidelines for all showroom categories, including for development resources, have been updated to include the following rule:
- Showroom threads may not be used for advertising. Links to websites, Discord servers or YouTube channels are only permitted in the respective profile fields, which are automatically shown next to the first post of the thread.
Advertising commercial Discord servers in showroom threads has always been against our terms of use. However, the distinction between commercial and non-commercial can be difficult, which is why Discord server links have been tolerated in the past. To prevent having to make this distinction and to prevent threads from cluttering up with advertisements and unrelated links, we have decided to add this new rule.
Instead, we encourage authors to add these links in the respective profile fields, which have been exempt from the commercial advertising rule ever since they were introduced. They will automatically be displayed in the profile and next to showroom threads or files in the filebase, which we believe to be a fair compromise.