Reddit is good, right?

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salted hash browns: Mar 26, 2007; ykrop

Smythe posted:

oh yea?

it's going to be a shitshow :ssh:

# ? Jul 3, 2015 23:16

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minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

PleasureKevin posted:

holy poo poo is this real?

so effectively she resigned

loving lol

i wouldn't move to san francisco either but if you don't have any skills other than translating manchild drool into celebrityspeak i'm not sure you're that employable

# ? Jul 3, 2015 23:22

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

minivanmegafun posted:

i wouldn't move to san francisco either but if you don't have any skills other than translating manchild drool into celebrityspeak i'm not sure you're that employable

no work for manchild translators in SF? has the tech bubble burst ?

# ? Jul 4, 2015 00:13

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

PleasureKevin posted:

no work for manchild translators in SF? has the tech bubble burst ?

that was my point

if someone asked me to transfer to san francisco i'd go "lol no" and just go find a new job, there are plenty in chicago and nyc

but if all you're good at is translating libertarian manchild rant into something coherent, sf is probably the only place you can do that

# ? Jul 4, 2015 00:22

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

clarifying my point gives me pleasure, kevin

# ? Jul 4, 2015 00:23

PleasureKevin: Jan 2, 2011

clarity is very important on this website.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 00:27

vodkat: Jun 30, 2012; cannot legally be sold as vodka

As a Millennial I posted:

100 dick sized horses or 100 horse sized dicks

100 horse dicks pls

# ? Jul 4, 2015 00:34

Optimus_Rhyme: Apr 15, 2007; are you that mainframe hacker guy?

this whole thing is so delicious, I cant get enough of the meltdown. Then the idea that they were going to monetize specific subreddits, subreddits they don't pay people to moderate, just blew up in their faces.

also

quote:

Digg Inc., a social-media pioneer once valued at more than $160 million, is selling for the deeply discounted price of about $500,000, three people familiar with the matter said.

The buyer is New York technology development firm Betaworks, which is attempting to revive a news-sharing site that was outmaneuvered by Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc.

Digg confirmed Thursday (in 2013) it sold its brand, website and technology to Betaworks. The price is a pittance for a company that raised $45 million from prominent investors including Facebook investor Greylock Partners, LinkedIn Inc. founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

as the world turns

# ? Jul 4, 2015 04:31

Pinterest Mom: Jun 9, 2009

salted hash browns posted:

While I don't give a poo poo about reddit I am honestly interested to see what happens here.

The mods have all the leverage here, they control the ad revenue and the users of the sites. They could very easily say "gently caress these guys, go here for a better experience [url]http://~~~fux.reddit.lol~~~[/url]" (ala digg -> reddit). Or they could do nothing, and sit on their closed subreddits and wait for their demands to be met while reddit loses money.

The admins only real move is to forcibly try and dismiss the coup by banning mods and re-opening subreddits. But lol like that would go over well.

It honestly seems like the admins only option is to reinstate Victoria in some capacity, since thats the only real demand that has been made by the mods. This sets a precedent that the mods have more power than the admins (which i guess is true), but seems so distasteful to the admins that I don't know if they could actually go through with it.

cyberfeudalism

# ? Jul 4, 2015 04:32

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003; no meds = f4

Optimus_Rhyme posted:

this whole thing is so delicious, I cant get enough of the meltdown. Then the idea that they were going to monetize specific subreddits, subreddits they don't pay people to moderate, just blew up in their faces.

also

as the world turns

Digg ftw

# ? Jul 4, 2015 07:10

Linguica: Jul 13, 2000; You're already dead

Wintering Stinkbug posted:

I dunno how much original code is left, but vbulletin is really lovely when it comes to scaling. I think that's more the problem than a lack of servers. The default search is particularly lovely as it locks tables and takes forever to complete.

What would you consider a good modern VBulletin-esque codebase? Asking for a friend

# ? Jul 4, 2015 07:21

teen bear: Feb 19, 2006

Smythe posted:

Digg ftw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHN-f6xTzsY

# ? Jul 4, 2015 08:47

Hugh G. Rectum: Mar 1, 2011

Smythe posted:

Digg ftw

i miss the digg buttons

# ? Jul 4, 2015 10:39

PuTTY riot: Nov 16, 2002

I really dug digg

# ? Jul 4, 2015 15:42

keymaster02: Mar 11, 2014; I had sex with a 32-year old at 16. SA is run by SJWs. Liking 16-year olds is not pedophilia. I hate your pronoun. I like young boys. I donate to the NAACP and probably NAMBLA too.

Linguica posted:

What would you consider a good modern VBulletin-esque codebase? Asking for a friend

I dunno. After my last experience consulting for a large BB I refused to ever do it again. That was years ago.

Totally not Radium guys.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 16:21

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Wintering Stinkbug posted:

I dunno. After my last experience consulting for a large BB I refused to ever do it again. That was years ago.

Totally not Radium guys.

refused to do it years ago, while still cashing a few more years worth of paycheques from lowtax :buddy:

# ? Jul 4, 2015 16:47

keymaster02: Mar 11, 2014; I had sex with a 32-year old at 16. SA is run by SJWs. Liking 16-year olds is not pedophilia. I hate your pronoun. I like young boys. I donate to the NAACP and probably NAMBLA too.

jony ive aces posted:

refused to do it years ago, while still cashing a few more years worth of paycheques from lowtax

It isn't worth the hassle. If its a large enough forum, your guaranteed to have a bunch of IT experts criticizing everything without realizing the constraints the owner put on what you can do. Especially if you bill by the hour.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 17:13

keymaster02: Mar 11, 2014; I had sex with a 32-year old at 16. SA is run by SJWs. Liking 16-year olds is not pedophilia. I hate your pronoun. I like young boys. I donate to the NAACP and probably NAMBLA too.

Man, that job was a nightmare that sent me over the edge from prodromal to fully psychotic. The owner of that forum used to be on SA. I take this consulting job managing a few techs and sysadmining. Was supposed to be a fairly sweet gig. The biggest client was a mortgage brokerage and it was 2008. That blew up a week after starting. Somehow the sales manager (total sociopath) had gotten the owner of the forums to virtualize everything and pay out the rear end for it. I said it wasn't a good idea, but then the couple that ran the consultancy showed me the financials and it was paying the bulk of my salary.

While I'm getting this ready to go, I'm desperately applying for open positions and can't get a single bite. My ex-wife decided she was going to be a catholic school teacher and accept a $25,000 salary with a MAT when the public school system started at $48,000. The recession just keeps getting worse, and virtualizing the DB server for this forum worked out just as badly as I thought. Total disaster, the forum would lock up whenever someone ran a search or made a post. I started digging into the guts of vbulletin and found that when a post was made, it broke it into words, and added it to a one to many table for future searches IIRC. Searching the index table locked it for the duration of the search, so people would post and get a white screen and time out errors while the post routines were waiting to update the search index. IIRC, there wasn't a clean way to make an archive at that point and I was trying to figure out how to do it.

I figured out the main problem was my disk throughput was dropping through the floor at peak times. This stupid company that owned the vmware cluster had a true sociopath at the helm. Like he would stiff subcontractors so he could buy new cars, and leave the ex client with a mechanics lean on their property. They claimed it was on a dedicated disk array on their san and a whole lot of other poo poo. So sucking data off the disk through a coffee stirrer combined with vbulletin's search pretty much brought the forums to a halt.

This isn't even getting into the little stupid things that used to happen with vmware.

The entire time I was searching for other jobs and couldn't get any in my hometown. I kept trying to keep those forums running as best I could because two other people would for sure get laid off. I talked to my ex-wife about moving but her parents were old and frail and she wouldn't do it. I apparently had a small stroke which caused epilepsy. I kept going for as long as I could after that, but the wheels flew off the bus mentally and I wound up on ssdi. Now I do work for friends companies at $100 an hour and limit it to less than 7 hours a month.

I'm sorry to the dude that owned the blade forums and their community. I did my best with what I had to work with.

I hold radium in high regard for keeping poo poo rolling as long as he did. At some point when you have enough users you need to start getting consults from experts in specific things, and that gets expensive and usually your client doesn't want to pay for it.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 17:40

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

is there any forums software today that isn't garbage?

# ? Jul 4, 2015 17:45

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Wintering Stinkbug posted:

I started digging into the guts of vbulletin and found that when a post was made, it broke it into words, and added it to a one to many table for future searches IIRC. Searching the index table locked it for the duration of the search, so people would post and get a white screen and time out errors while the post routines were waiting to update the search index. IIRC, there wasn't a clean way to make an archive at that point and I was trying to figure out how to do it.

lmao

# ? Jul 4, 2015 17:48

keymaster02: Mar 11, 2014; I had sex with a 32-year old at 16. SA is run by SJWs. Liking 16-year olds is not pedophilia. I hate your pronoun. I like young boys. I donate to the NAACP and probably NAMBLA too.

triple sulk posted:

lmao

Oh, it got even better. Disabling search just slightly fixed the problem because the post routine still did something to that table. I tried commenting it out on a test environment, but that just broke poo poo.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 18:00

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

akadajet posted:

is there any software today that isn't garbage?

lol

# ? Jul 4, 2015 18:02

jony ive aces: Jun 14, 2012; designer of the lomarf car; Buglord

Wintering Stinkbug posted:

Man, that job was a nightmare that sent me over the edge from prodromal to fully psychotic. The owner of that forum used to be on SA.

i used to do some webjanitoring for another goon's hobby site, years ago before i was a goon. during my tenure there it went from a thriving community, boosted by refugees from the collapse of our main "rival" site through some dumb drama or something, to our own site collapsing and everyone returning to the other site. mostly due to intertia and a bit of our own dumb drama that i largely stayed out of, but the final nail in the coffin was my inability to remove some russian malware that kept returning to the lovely php forum hosted on a dreamhost shared plan

so as bad as radium is i guess i'm even worse

# ? Jul 4, 2015 18:16

PleasingFungus: Oct 10, 2012; idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

PleasureKevin posted:

reddit calls itself an "open platform", not a media company. they want to be more like a communication protocol and they pull this out whenever they get called out for hosting links to child porn or whatever. paying someone to use your open platform/protocol seems weird, especially when the "mods" don't really have any rules to enforce besides posting personal information.

they want to be a 'communication protocol', but they also want to get paid whenever anyone uses their service.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 18:18

Constant Hamprince: Oct 24, 2010; by exmarx; College Slice

an open platform not sturdy enough to have fat people on it

# ? Jul 4, 2015 18:20

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

Jonad posted:

an open platform not sturdy enough to have fat people on it

# ? Jul 4, 2015 18:32

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Jonad posted:

an open platform not sturdy enough to have fat people on it

# ? Jul 4, 2015 19:34

TerminalRaptor: Nov 6, 2012; Mostly Harmless

heh, this thread made me go check to see if Ultimate Bulletin Board still exists.

it does! :eyepop:

# ? Jul 4, 2015 19:39

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

guys if the mods of /r/pics are banned and replaced I don't know what I'll do with myself

# ? Jul 4, 2015 19:57

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde

jony ive aces posted:

i used to do some webjanitoring for another goon's hobby site, years ago before i was a goon.

a classic case of autism contamination

# ? Jul 4, 2015 20:46

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

all bb software is bad. it's a fact of life.

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:05

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

akadajet posted:

is there any forums software today that isn't garbage?

six course, by jeff fatwood of snackoverflow

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:07

minivanmegafun: Jul 27, 2004

Sweevo posted:

six course, by jeff fatwood of snackoverflow

the part after the comma isn't new but lol @ six course

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:18

atomicthumbs: Dec 26, 2010; We're in the business of extending man's senses.

/r/crappydesign, a formerly good subreddit, has been shut down permanently by its top moderator, who kicked everyone else out and closed it

quote:

Hello /r/crappydesign subscribers. I'm sorry to announce that I am closing this subreddit for good. You will have to find other places to submit crappy design. Perhaps /r/fail, /r/design, and /r/softwaregore. It was a good run, but I can't support this regime by giving them all of the pageviews you provide. For a more detailed explanation, read this.

Good luck and happy designing.

sws

im the regime

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:23

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

reddit is dying

rip

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:29

Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

is imgur owned by reddit? cuz if not i think they can take over the userbase like this *snap*

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:35

Dans Macabre: Apr 24, 2004

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

is imgur owned by reddit? cuz if not i think they can take over the userbase like this *snap*

i found out the other day that people use imgur like they do reddit eg make comments on imgur instead of on reddit. I guess that kind of makes sense, cut out the middle man.

and no imgur : reddit :: 4chan : sa

# ? Jul 4, 2015 21:49