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Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal
Thanks for bumping this thread

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Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

SHARIA LAW SCHOOL posted:

not worth it. ban all foreign IPs. Keep it Americans only.

this is honestly not a bad idea, given GDPR requirements

also re: documentation, you guys should harrass lowtax ceaselessly irl until he actually accepts help because it's probably the only viable way to get that outcome

sauer kraut
Oct 2, 2004
Please don't go further into debt for this :ohdear:
I usually wait for the top ad to appear for a few seconds anyway so you get a fraction of a penny (please don't tell me your ads are clickthrough only)

Jesustheastronaut!
Mar 9, 2014




Lipstick Apathy
I'm behind 4 proxies and this website is a piece of poo poo

Barudak
May 7, 2007

sauer kraut posted:

Please don't go further into debt for this :ohdear:
I usually wait for the top ad to appear for a few seconds anyway so you get a fraction of a penny (please don't tell me your ads are clickthrough only)

Honestly he probably doesnt even get that. As far as I see it, the single best financial boon to him on this site is more people/more patreons

Minorkos
Feb 20, 2010

make it even faster

make it so fast that it opens pages i havent even thought about opening yet

Jimbone Tallshanks
Dec 16, 2005

You can't pull rank on murder.

Make the forums a torrent so all the bandwidth comes from P2P

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?
Don’t do it Lowtax,if you die with no money then what’s left for me,your illegitimate child/secret lover/adamantium spine grafter onner?

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ

Jimbone Tallshanks posted:

Make the forums a torrent so all the bandwidth comes from P2P

This is old thinking. Move the forums to the blockchain.

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009
Dude, it used to take me hours to download a nude picture back when I was high school. You aren’t gonna make me mad if the site takes 4 seconds longer.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

remember when Lowtax was knee deep in debt with a broken back and had to pay for his kids education and he asked if he should spend thousands of dollars to make the forums .5 seconds faster

lol. just lol.

other people
Jun 27, 2004
Associate Christ
The site feels a bit slow can we turn the Go Fast feature back on now.

sweet thursday
Sep 16, 2012

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

remember when Lowtax was knee deep in debt with a broken back and had to pay for his kids education and he asked if he should spend thousands of dollars to make the forums .5 seconds faster

lol. just lol.

Maybe we were his real children the whole time

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



other people posted:

The site feels a bit slow can we turn the Go Fast feature back on now.

This, but charge $1/post for the first 3000 posts every month

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

sweet thursday posted:

Maybe we were his real children the whole time

Your poison forum is making Facebook crowded

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Jesustheastronaut! posted:

I'm behind 4 proxies and this website is a piece of poo poo

stop your child porn filez

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
Keeping a website like this alive on your own for 20+ years with nothing but volunteer help from unstable people seems like a really impressive feat for anyone.

Lowtax isn't a bad businessman, he's a wizard who cares not for the temptations of riches.

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Rad-daddio posted:

Keeping a website like this alive on your own for 20+ years with nothing but volunteer help from unstable people seems like a really impressive feat for anyone.

Lowtax isn't a bad businessman, he's a wizard who cares not for the temptations of riches.

Spineless toadying seems appropriate.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

ikanreed posted:

Spineless toadying seems appropriate.

Nope, just genuine genuflecting :)

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

no he's definitely a bad businessman, by the standards of businessmen

Mr.Acula
May 10, 2009

Billions and billions of fat clouds

full speed ahead you cowards

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
Maybe we need to reach a monthly 6 figures before this will work itself out, 5 doesn't seem to be enough.

Michaellaneous
Oct 30, 2013

I would really enjoy to keep my web1.0 experience, including load times. Thanks!

Dongattack
Dec 20, 2006

by Cyrano4747
I haven't noticed any speed difference, just turn it off again.

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

no he's definitely a bad businessman, by the standards of businessmen

What are the standards of businessmen? According to pop culture, being a bidnessman is all about hiding your money, drug addiction and desire to kill puppies and loving your secretary/assistant/ux developer while your ageing wife gets more plastic injected into her turkey neck.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

making money, doofus

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
lowtax sell forums to china idiot

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

making money, doofus

pshh, fake news

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

making money, doofus

Then it doesn't make sense to judge Dear Leader by that standard since this has always been a mission of love and community.

Rich 3:16 For Lowtax so loved the forums that he gave his own spinal blah blah blah

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Be prepared
Fun Shoe
Just take care of your bills and if the forums have to be slightly slower only assholes are going to care.

Keep this place running as long as you can. Get better. Feel better. We love ya.

Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


Replace every one of Lowtax's vertebrae with a cluster of biometrically powered CPUs. We need these forums to be fast as possible, no matter the cost!

Ape Fist
Feb 23, 2007

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want; anal, oral, fisting, but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection.
It's fine, just let it run in the normal way it was running before. Don't worry too much about search either it's more or less singularly used by Goons having arguments with other Goons to angrily find their posts from 2007 when they were having a Libertarian phase or something.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I say double the price of search. The forums are perfectly good the way they are, we don't need A-Train speed to call each other brotherfuckers.

ufarn
May 30, 2009
I don't think the occasional downtime is a nuisance as long as it's intermittent and doesn't last hours.

Hipster_Doofus
Dec 20, 2003

Lovin' every minute of it.

Captain Hygiene posted:

This, but charge $1/post for the first 3000 posts every month

This is unironically true genius. Imagine the temporary uptick in quality posting.

Actually no nevermind anybody who'd actually pay a dollar to make just one post has absolutely nothing worthwhile to say.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Hipster_Doofus posted:

This is unironically true genius. Imagine the temporary uptick in quality posting.

Actually no nevermind anybody who'd actually pay a dollar to make just one post has absolutely nothing worthwhile to say.

Reverse it

Rad-daddio
Apr 25, 2017
The provider had to up the price of forum speed to deal with potential wildfires from the flame wars.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




Lowtax pays us a dollar for each of the first 3000 posts every month? So crazy it just might work!

Evil Con Carne
Nov 30, 2004
Joo go back to burger king where you came from


It's actually too fast! Slow this poo poo down.

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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Captain Hygiene posted:

Lowtax pays us a dollar for each of the first 3000 posts every month? So crazy it just might work!

No dummy any post over say 500/month costs you $1. Give Burt your credit card reoccurring charge authorization immediately. Shitposting go to near zero.

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