Thread by @StalkMarket_

Let’s talk about turnip.exchange and how you are potentially in danger by using it. Despite our previous statements having publicly endorsed turnip.exchange and @warpworld, we regret that we can no longer support their service. The service

@WarpWorld is in clear and direct violation of Nintendo's Terms of Service. Section 6 states, “you agree to not attempt to reverse engineer any aspect of the Services or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any…

@WarpWorld …area, content or code of the Services (except as otherwise expressly permitted by law);” and “Develop any third-party applications that interact with User Content or the Services without our prior written consent; Use any robot, iframe, spider, crawler, scraper or other…

@WarpWorld …automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Services, including, without limitation, for the purpose of copying, extracting, aggregating, displaying, publishing or distributing any content or data made available via Services.“,

We believe @warpworld’s tool…

@WarpWorld …is not only a threat to the stalk market trading community, but a threat to Nintendo’s online services as a whole. Their service

@WarpWorld uses an undisclosed form of proprietary code to determine whether or not a dodo code is valid and to view how many players currently occupy an island. This capability clearly shows that Turnip Exchange is accessing player data in a way that was not intended by Nintendo.

It is…

@WarpWorld …a definite positive that the Animal Crossing trading community has been centralized, but there are many safer alternatives, with large sizes such as reddit and the @StalkMarket_ discord server, which we represent. Fortunately, to

@WarpWorld date there are no known bans related to the service Turnip.Exchange is providing, but this does not inoculate users from the possibility. Animal Crossing fans, and the Nintendo user base in general, are enthusiastic about the games they play. Many of them

@WarpWorld are likely unaware of the risks they are taking by using a third party tool. We consider this risk to be unacceptable.

@warpworld has reported traffic of up to 100 new islands per minute, and 1,000 concurrent users. They are, at

@WarpWorld the time of writing, receiving donations equal to $5.5 thousand US dollars on their Patreon. In the same breath, they claim they cannot handle the amount of requests at their current server capacity. Our fair assumption

@WarpWorld is that they are asking for money to support their time/effort for development in addition to server costs. If that is the case, they should clarify their statement for the benefit of their user base. An IT professional

@WarpWorld further states that their estimated monthly costs would fall between $450USD and $750USD depending on whether they implement a database server or not. We believe this

@WarpWorld is a fair and reasonable evaluation for the amount of data that Turnip Exchange claims to transmit and store.

Animal Crossing fans deserve transparency. It may not be Turnip.Exchange’s intent to harm

@WarpWorld or misrepresent the Animal Crossing community, but we and others, as members of that community, request that Turnip.Exchange stop putting us at risk by breaking Nintendo’s Terms of Service. Further, we ask that Turnip.Exchange respond and explain how they

@WarpWorld are accessing island information and what kind of information is included in that data. Until those conditions are satisfied, we will continue to withhold our endorsement for their service while we support our fellow players.

If you would like to

@WarpWorld ask us more about this - please join the Stalk Market discord server (discord.gg/ruGMHgB) And we will do our best to answer questions in the #temp-twitter-thread-discussion channel.