In Why I started RateMyRagnarok I told you why this site exists. This post shows you the receipts.
Below are the screenshots, unedited: they were only converted to a lighter image format, and the long conversation was cut into three parts so you can read it. Every claim gets a fact check. The numbers were measured on 16 September 2026 on the live site, so anyone can repeat them.
Part 1: #ro_server_discussion, 1 September 2026
The channel topic says "For those that play Ragnarok in 2026! - Note: Server advertisements should be posted on the forums, not here." This is where RateMyRagnarok was reviewed. Let's go claim by claim.
Claim 1: "Stick to 1-2 colours so it doesn't look like a child with crayons on sugar"
Also in this screenshot: "most pictures look brownish/golden" and "it doesn't fit 'ragnarok' at all".
Fact check:
- The site uses two accent colours: blue and red. The rune rain in the background is literally blue on the left half and red on the right half. Two. We counted.
- "Doesn't fit Ragnarok at all" is a bold thing to say about a site that contains:
- 34,357 items (6,169 of them also in the Pre-Renewal database)
- 4,442 monsters, with 21,045 drops and 6,506 spawn locations
- 1,225 maps and 1,707 skills
- 3,006 NPC sprites
- 36 episode guides, from Rune-Midgard Kingdom to today
- a replay viewer that plays your
.rrf replays on the real game maps, in 3D, straight from the client's own data
- A game whose mascot is a pink jelly with a face, in a world full of neon skill effects, is not exactly famous for its two-colour palette either.
Design is taste, and taste is allowed. "It doesn't fit Ragnarok" is not taste, though. It is simply not true.
Claim 2: "It's like a theme park in a website"
"Too many elements responding in too many different ways to the user. The icon rotates, cards get bigger, a reflection animation is displayed."
Fact check: this one is a fair design opinion, with actual arguments. And since then the site did get calmer: spinning icons only turn while you can actually see them, looping animations pause when they are off screen, and the header's glow effects no longer redraw on every refresh of your screen. Arguments work. Crayon jokes, less so.
Claim 3: "It's unusable on Firefox"
"Maybe my PC is shit then, it takes about 3 seconds until it starts scrolling and it's choppy." Meanwhile, in the same screenshot, another Firefox user answers: "im on firefox, it "works" for me … but ican browse it".
And then it gets better (next screenshot): someone asks whether hardware acceleration is enabled, and the answer is "Maybe, but I don't plan on enabling it for this site."
That is refusing to let your graphics card help, and then reviewing the graphics. Bold strategy.
Fact check: so we measured exactly that worst case: a browser without hardware acceleration, at 1920×1080.
- Homepage: fully loaded in 1.4 seconds
- Poring (monster page): fully loaded in 1.1 seconds
- Server list: fully loaded in 1.8 seconds
The homepage transfers about 700 KB on a first visit. We measured in a Chromium browser. If Firefox still gives you trouble, post your browser version and computer in Support, and we will look at it. That is how "unusable" gets fixed: with details, not with a laughing emoji.
Claim 4: "100% CPU on idle doesn't make any sense" and "Cryptominer"
The full sequence: "i mean the website is Ai slop so" → a Chrome task manager screenshot showing 97.3 CPU → "Cryptominer." → "It is mining coins >😃" → "Accessing the page on my 2015 Laptop. Let's see how many coins they get out of my beast."
Let's split this into the part that was true and the part that was invented.
The part that was true: on 1 September the site did use far too much CPU on some computers. Its looping animations kept redrawing even when nobody could see them. That was a real problem, and more than ten performance updates since then fixed it.
Measured now, again without hardware acceleration: for 20 seconds we opened a page and did nothing, and recorded how much of that time the page's main thread was busy.
- Homepage: busy 7.3% of the time (32% with the CPU slowed down 4x, like an old laptop), 5 MB of JavaScript memory
- Poring (monster page): busy 3.9% of the time (12% slowed down 4x), 5 MB of JavaScript memory
- Server list: busy 20.8% of the time (82% slowed down 4x), 5 MB of JavaScript memory
Honest part: the server list is still too busy while it sits idle, especially on slow machines. That is on the list and it will be fixed. We would rather show you that number than hide it.
The part that was invented: the "cryptominer". A browser miner needs heavy background computation. It uses Web Workers to run on every CPU core, usually WebAssembly for speed, and a connection to a mining pool to send its work to. So we checked all three on the homepage, a monster page and the server list:
- Web Workers started: 0
- WebAssembly modules compiled: 0
- WebSocket connections (the way miners talk to a pool): 0
- Outside domains contacted: only Cloudflare Insights and Google Analytics. Everything else comes from ratemyragnarok.com itself.
If this is a crypto miner, it is the worst one ever written. At 3.9% of one thread with zero workers, the only thing it could mine is Jellopy. Everything the site runs is loaded in your own browser, so you can check all of this yourself with the developer tools. No hidden secrets.
Claim 5: "The website is AI slop"
Tools don't make slop. People do. And the result here speaks for itself: since 1 September alone, 118 updates went live on this site. The databases above, the 3D replay viewer, this forum with login through your site account, VPN and proxy protection, performance work, and fixes that you asked for.
Yes, I use AI. I also use an editor, a debugger, Git and Google. A good tool doesn't replace a developer, it makes a good developer even better. Think of a fisherman. You can catch fish with your bare hands, it's possible. But the guy with a rod goes home with a full bucket, while the other one is still standing in the river, soaking wet, shouting that rods are cheating.
We've seen this movie before:
- Carpenters said power tools would kill the craft. Nobody asks today whether your house was built with a hand saw.
- Accountants said calculators would make them stupid. Then came Excel, and the good accountants simply got more done.
- Photographers called digital cameras "not real photography". Now they all shoot digital.
- Old-school programmers said autocomplete, IDEs and Stack Overflow were for people who "can't really code". Every single one of them uses all three today.
Using AI doesn't mean I can't code. It means I don't waste hours typing boilerplate before I get to the part that actually matters: deciding what to build, how it should work, and checking that it really does. The tool types faster. The developer still has to know what's right. Go ahead, ask an AI to build a site like this without knowing what you're doing, and let me know how far you get.
So why is there AI bashing in that Discord channel every single day? My guess: fear. Fear of not being needed anymore. Fear that the skills they spent years on are suddenly worth less. Maybe even a little fear that the robots will rise up one day. I get it, change is scary. But being afraid of a tool doesn't make it go away. It just means the people who learn to use it will pass you by while you're still complaining about it.
In the right hands, AI is a power tool. In mine, it made me faster, not worse. I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
Judge the result, not the toolbox.
Part 2: The conversation with rms.yycc, 16 September 2026
After seeing the channel again, I sent a private message to rms.yycc, who runs the Discord where this happened. Here is the whole conversation, from start to end.
What happened
- My reply in that channel, which contained no insults, was deleted. The messages calling the site a cryptominer, "AI slop" and a theme park stayed up.
- Their explanation (12:31 PM): "it's like they can talk about any server or platform in here .. i dont have control of that if it's just a small rant about something, it doesnt hurt anybody in there".
- And about my reply (12:31 PM): "your reply, given ur position in this case, is trying to lure a discussion", and (12:36 PM) "there was no discussion until u show up".
So accusing a website of secretly mining crypto on your PC is "a small rant that doesn't hurt anybody", and answering that accusation without a single insult is "luring a discussion". Got it.
The rules, in their own words
- 12:41 PM: "u cant force every channel to do what u want"
- 1:07 PM: "how does it even make sense when u are running this thing in an attempt to replace me and i have to be fair to u"
- 1:07 PM: "i dont expect someone i stab will help me clean the dagger .. so u shouldnt expect this"
- 1:16 PM: "u cant ask for fairness the moment you position yourself to run a site like that"
- 1:27 PM: "it's about your site, which in the land of RMS what you expect ? why do u bother to defend it? i wouldnt lend you the air space to defend your site, this is common sense"
Read those again. There is no rule about insults and no rule about lying. The rule is: if you run a site like this, you do not get to answer. Fairness depends on who you are. That is not moderation. That is exactly the kind of bias I built this platform to get away from.
And "the dagger" in this story? A free website with a Poring on it, where your server's players can leave honest reviews.
"You trashed my site in public"
At 12:44 PM a Facebook post of mine from 16 April was forwarded as proof that I attacked their site: "as a position of a competitor, i dont think anything need to be done if u put it this way in ur post", followed at 12:47 PM by "if u gonna trash my site in public, then how is that my discord user is not allowed to complain about another site?"
Fact check: the forwarded post is right there in part 2 of the screenshots. It announces RateMyRagnarok.com, talks about "some older Ragnarok platforms" that look outdated, and lists what the site offers. It does not name RateMyServer, its website or its Discord anywhere. It is a post in a public Facebook group, where anyone can reply underneath. Nobody was named; one site simply recognised itself in the description.
"Do you ban people who advertise their server on your server?"
At 1:12 PM and 1:37 PM the comparison was: "u dont let server advertise on your server but you let your player trash talk another server is a perfect example".
Fact check: I did not advertise anything in their Discord. As I wrote in the conversation (1:31 PM), I responded once to accusations about me, with a laughing emoji and an image, in a public community that both of us take part in. Answering "your site is a cryptominer" with "no, it isn't" is not an advertisement. It is called defending yourself.
How RateMyRagnarok does it differently
This is why I started this platform, and this is what you can hold me to:
- Both sides may speak. On this forum you can criticise the site, and the person you criticise can answer. Nobody's reply gets deleted for "luring a discussion".
- No fake reviews through VPNs and proxies. Reviews and forum posts from VPNs and proxies are refused, for everyone.
- No advertising for my own servers. You will never see any of my own projects promoted here.
- Everything in the open. The activity log is public: https://ratemyragnarok.com/activity/ . In the last 30 days the site had 34,742 page views from 11,315 visitors in 126 countries.
- Criticism is welcome. Since those comments the site got calmer and faster. Bring the next one to Suggestions & Feedback, and bring details.
You don't have to like the colours. But you do deserve the facts.
Syphon
Founder of RateMyRagnarok