About Faintnode

Faintnode publishes one thing: a five-step beginner's course about online multiplayer PC games, written for readers in Australia. This page explains who publishes it, how it is put together and what it is paid for.

The publisher

Faintnode is published by indefinido trade s.r.o., a company registered in Czechia.

The site is written and maintained by the indefinido trade s.r.o. editorial team. There are no named authors, no guest contributors and no instructors, because nothing in the course rests on one person's experience and it would be misleading to present it as though it did.

Editorial method: how the course was structured

The course was planned as a single sequence before any of it was written. The question it was built to answer is the one an adult in Australia asks when they first consider a large online game: what is this, will it work here, what am I agreeing to, how do I set it up, and what happens over the following months.

Those five questions became the five steps, in that order, and the order is load-bearing. Vocabulary introduced in Step 1 is used without re-explanation afterwards. Figures produced in Step 2 are compared in Step 2 and referred back to in Step 4. Documents located in Step 3 are returned to in Step 5. Each step ends with a checklist that restates its material as things to confirm rather than things to learn, and the checklists are repeated together on one printable page because that is the form readers actually use.

Depth was capped deliberately. The course covers roughly the first few weeks of a beginner's experience and then stops. It does not cover tactics, hardware upgrades, competitive play or anything that requires keeping pace with a specific product.

What each step relies on

Three kinds of source, and nothing else.

• Australian government publications for anything concerning classification, consumer rights, privacy, online safety or security. These are the Australian Classification Board, the ACCC and Scamwatch, the OAIC, the eSafety Commissioner and the Australian Cyber Security Centre. Each is linked where it is relevant and described only by what it is.
• Operating system documentation and built-in tools for anything about reading your own hardware. Step 2's procedure uses only what Windows, macOS and Linux already provide, which is why it asks you to install nothing.
• The vendor's own published pages for anything about a specific product. This is why the course teaches you to read a system requirements list rather than reprinting one: a copy made here would go stale and we have no way to verify it.

Where a question falls outside all three, the course either says it is general guidance rather than a statement of fact, or leaves it out. We publish no statistics of our own, run no tests, hold no awards and have no certifications. If you find a claim on this site that is neither sourced nor flagged as guidance, that is an error and we would like to hear about it at info@faintnode.online.

How often it is reviewed

The whole course is reviewed twice a year. It is reviewed sooner if an Australian regulator changes guidance that a step depends on, if a linked government page moves, or if a reader reports an error. Every page carries the date of the most recent review in its footer, and the four legal pages carry their own effective dates, updated whenever they are revised.

Commercial relationships, stated plainly

This site makes money from affiliate commission, and it is the only way it makes money. One product named in the course, World of Tanks, is linked through a tracked affiliate link. If a reader follows that link and creates and activates an account, the affiliate network that operates the link pays indefinido trade s.r.o. a commission. We therefore have a commercial relationship with a product that the course mentions, and saying so is the point of this section.

What that relationship does not do is decide the content. The five steps were structured around the five questions above, not around a funnel toward a click. No step was added, lengthened or reworded to increase the chance of a click, and the course can be completed in full without following any link. No product is described here as better than another, because we have run no comparison that would entitle us to say so.

What does decide the content: the five questions, the three source types above, and the constraint that every claim must be sourced or flagged. The Affiliate Disclosure page sets the funding arrangement out in full, including where in the course the links appear.

What this site is not

It is not an official source for, nor a partner, reseller or authorised representative of, any game publisher. It is not a news outlet and publishes no reporting. It is not a personal blog and contains no first-person account of anyone's experience with any product. It is not a download site; no software is distributed here. And it is not a course in the enrolment sense: there is no account, no record of your progress and nothing issued at the end.

Privacy, in one line

This site collects nothing. There are no forms, no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, no web fonts and no third-party scripts of any kind. The Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy set out the detail, including the server access logs that are the only record of a visit.

Corrections and contact

Corrections are welcome and are the main reason this address exists. Write to info@faintnode.online, or see the Contact page for what to include and how long a reply takes.