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The Future of Switchway

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After toying with the idea of closing Switchway indefinitely, I have decided continue for another year but only after I make some drastic changes.
 
To help with privacy, security, increased costs and to combat misuse, the Switchway website will be closing down soon. From now on our guides will only be available on our Discord.
 
There will also be some big changes coming to our Discord community to accommodate the changes to how we will be operating in the future.

Privacy & Security

A website/Discord community focused on hacking Nintendo products was always risky and I knew the risks from the start.
 
After seeing a very popular Switch hacking guide (Switch Hacking Is Easy/Rentry) get taken down by Nintendo towards the backend of 2024 my mood has changed from indifferent to cautious.
 
It is obvious from our significantly increased website traffic this year, a lot of people who used to use that set of guides are now using ours. We’ve gone form a small community with steady website traffic over 4 years to 10,000’s of people visiting our website each month throughout 2025. Whilst this is great, it also brings potential heat if this trend continues. Whilst the author of the Rentry guides was anonymous and able to disappear, I am fully traceable so going private and limiting Switchway’s and my visibility seems the sensible thing to do.
 
Our Discord has also become a cesspit of constant bans for idiots continually asking for piracy on an almost daily basis and I’m really struggling to stay motivated after trying practically everything to combat it.
 
The UK government has just announced plans to create a digital ID (Brit Card) which is of huge concern as it could implement a system where UK citizens are required to provide their personal details to use some online services. No more online anonymity behind a username. I’ll be keeping an eye on developments as this progresses.

Increased Costs

Last year some very generous people donated enough money to cover the costs for the website to continue throughout 2025. Like everything nowadays, prices are increasing and I can’t rely on goodwill donations nor can I resort to drastic things like adding adverts to the website to generate enough revenue to cover the costs. It is getting close to the time of year when I need to consider if everything will be renewed for another year.
 

The website needs an overhaul, lots of guides need refreshing to remove old apps and replace them with new apps like Sphaira. That means more time to tweak the guides and produce the new pictures needed to supplement the guides. Lots of existing pictures also need redoing for things that have changed like the new Switch home screen with the new added system icons.

I have decided to eliminate any future costs by moving everything over to our Discord and add new, refreshed guides instead of continuing with a website. I’ve been working for the last few weeks to alter the guides and recreate them from scratch in dedicated channels within our Discord. Which is a full circle moment as that is how I started out doing things in 2020 when I started Switchway.

Combatting Misuse

Making the guides available on our Discord will help me to prevent people sharing links to our website on other platforms. It will allow me to restrict access to people who have been banned from our Discord from continuing to benefit from our hard work when they don’t deserve it. I can also reward anyone who supports us or regulars who contribute to our community with something tangible in return.

How Things will Work

Firstly I will be offering anybody who has previously donated (Supporter role on Discord) full access to all our guides from day one as a gesture of my thanks for supporting Switchway when others enjoyed everything for free.

Anyone with a either a Boost VIP or Gold role on our Discord will also have full access for supporting our community and helping it to be a great place for everyone to hang out and seek help.

Anyone with a Silver or Bronze role will have limited access to a handful of the most important guides like setting up CFW and updating CFW & FW.

We have been phasing out generic Switch hacking help on our Discord for the last few months. I would envisage this will continue and at some time in the future I will probably make our Discord private, depending on how things go. If constant piracy requests continue to blight our Discord I might even have to pull the plug totally as I’m not enjoying constantly policing everything daily and banning people 24/7.

If that does happen I have mirrored the guides on a totally private Discord (SW2) which will only be available to Supporters as a legacy sort of thing because I wouldn’t feel right if I just walked away without considering the people who have supported my efforts over the years.

When I’m happy there’s enough guides available on our Discord (say 90% of what’s on our website) I will make the guides accessible to the relevant roles and setup a redirect on all the website pages to the home page so people know what’s happening before ultimately deleting the website.

Welcome to Switchway

Switchway was created by a small group of people with a common interest in Switch hacking.

After meeting on Discord in 2019 we were disappointed with the lack of decent guides and resources available to the Switch hacking community. To address this, we decided to open our own Discord server in 2020 with a focus on creating quality Switch hacking guides, as well as offering a friendly place to get additional support.

Why Use Switchway

    • Our website is updated as soon as new updates are released.

    • 24/7 friendly support on our Discord server where you can chat to the people who write the guides to troubleshoot issues and get your questions answered.

    • Safe, easy to follow guides, which will help prevent you from getting banned or damaging your Switch.

    • Pictures are currently being added to all our guides, with 70% of them already done.

    • Guides to help you update Atmosphere and firmware, making it a breeze to maintain your CFW set up.

    • We offer pre-made CFW packs for Unpatched and Switch with Modchips to make things easier for beginners. We also have a guide for setting everything up yourself if you prefer.

    • Additional guides for managing content including; cheats, emulators, games, homebrew apps, mods and themes.

    • Miscellaneous guides for moving from SX OS to Atmosphere, fixing boot errors and more.

    • Lots of supplementary information to help you understand how everything works.

    • We are constantly evolving, adding new guides all the time, whilst trying to continue to be a great resource for Switch hacking.

Switchway Discord

Our Discord server continues to grow and we now have over 13.5k members.

So whether you are new to Switch hacking, someone with knowledge to share to help others, or you are just someone looking for somewhere to hang out, click the link below and check us out.

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Support Us

If you’d like to become a Supporter please join our Discord server (link above) and visit the 💜︱donate channel to find out how.

A big thank you to all these cool people who have supported us so far: