You can use this wizard to check if the new UK law applies to your service: http...

jadamson · 2025-07-20T22:36:17 1753050977

Very first question:

> Your online service has links with the UK if:

> UK users are a target market for your service; or

> It has a significant number of UK users

What is "significant"? Is it a percentage or a raw number?

I'll click "no" - maybe 5% of my users are from the UK. Great, wizard complete! I don't need to worry...except:

> Please note that this result is indicative only

hermitcrab · 2025-07-20T22:52:02 1753051922

>Do you provide a “user-to-user” service?

We have a free-to-use technical forum for our (data wrangling software) forum, powered by Discourse. I believe that might allow users to directly message each other. Does that count?

beejiu · 2025-07-20T22:59:00 1753052340

Yes, but if you fill out the rest of the questionnaire I suspect it says you are not in scope.

Ralfp · 2025-07-20T23:48:09 1753055289

Nope, I’ve did questionnaire and it gave me big green „yes”.

Only escape hatch they give you later is if all communication between users is delegated to other medium, eg. email or phone or sms.

hermitcrab · 2025-07-21T08:28:34 1753086514

Any online forum is going to allow people to communicate with each other via the web.

I'm not sure what I need to do to comply. Anyone with a web-based forum had to deal with this? What changes did you make?

Timwi · 2025-07-22T17:53:55 1753206835

https://www.thehamsterforum.com/threads/big-sad-forum-news-o...

Basically, geoblock the UK or go offline.

hermitcrab · 2025-07-20T23:09:55 1753052995

I put 'don't know' for that question and the assessement was 'unclear'.