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Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer

FamDav posted:

lol if you think this websites traffic is in any way huge in 2015.

yeah we're only serving up half a million pages per day, we have dropped considerably

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jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
how many of those are human

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
i was just thinking
if you took the time http/html has existed and streched it over the time the us has existed (independently) then SA would've been founded circa 1860

oh no blimp issue
Feb 23, 2011

AtomD posted:

i was just thinking
if you took the time http/html has existed and streched it over the time the us has existed (independently) then SA would've been founded circa 1860

interesting

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

The Management posted:

Annuit cœptis :sotw:

semper fidelis tyrannosaurus

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
dorkus... malorkus

oh no blimp issue
Feb 23, 2011

Lowtax posted:

yeah we're only serving up half a million pages per day, we have dropped considerably

what was it at peak?

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
also when was the peak

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

jony ive aces posted:

also when was the peak
i actually looked up "something awful" on google trends a couple days ago and the term had something like 15 times the current search volume in '05

edit:

Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Sep 29, 2015

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you

Lowtax posted:

yeah we're only serving up half a million pages per day, we have dropped considerably

and it's all guaranteed people who have paid for accounts, it's an advertiser's wet dream, there's not a single bot account on the forums, it's all guaranteed loving human traffic and clicks

sorry, it's just mind-blowing to me

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you
how many page views are from the mobile apps? why not buy all those, throw iads and adsense into them, and make the no-ads upgrade slightly more expensive across both desktop and web and provide no-ads as an in-app purchase

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma
Lipstick Apathy
no-ads should be time limited 3 months 6 months etc

a flat cost for no ads forever doesn't make any financial sense

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you
have you looked at reducing bandwidth costs by reducing the size of all the page templates?

shaving five kilobytes off each page view * 500,000 page views a day is 2.5 gigabytes of bandwidth saved every day

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
i think you should be able to knock 6 hours off your probation for every facebook friend you invite to join the forums

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
you should have sponsored threads where people buy a product and then they post pics of themselves with the product and in exchange they get 100 post stars.
500 post stars enables html for one of your posts

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
integrate simspons quotes into all subforums

OB_Juan
Nov 24, 2004

Not every day is a good day.


Dinosaur Gum
full candy crush support

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

horse mans posted:

how many page views are from the mobile apps? why not buy all those, throw iads and adsense into them, and make the no-ads upgrade slightly more expensive across both desktop and web and provide no-ads as an in-app purchase
idk about ios but isn't the anroid one open sores

Perplx posted:

no-ads should be time limited 3 months 6 months etc

a flat cost for no ads forever doesn't make any financial sense
tbh it's p. surprising that the forum still exists in 2015 though

reminds me i should probably buy noads some time

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
something awful will never die, even if lowtax ends up having to get a real job

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
hell, the world of spectrum forums have been around for about as long and they're a free board about a dead gay computer

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
[obligatory autism spectrum joke]

zeekner
Jul 14, 2007

jony ive aces posted:

idk about ios but isn't the anroid one open sores

looks like awful iOS is CC-NA-SA, awful.apk is BSD, and something,apk is MIT. something.apk hasn't been touched in a year, but I officially give lowtax permission to do whatever the gently caress with it

I think most if not all the app developers are on board with whatever lowtax needs to do to stabilize the forums, but we just never hear from anyone. idk, i've been out of it for a while.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
add a sa watermark to all images posted on the forums

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

Improbable Lobster posted:

integrate simspons quotes into all subforums

that... that hasn't been done already?

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008

Lowtax posted:

yeah we're only serving up half a million pages per day, we have dropped considerably

yeah, this is totally manageable and much out there handles your traffic by default. do you know your p90 reads and writes per second?

my real recommendation is you somehow convince the real software people to help you do this for free. the only people you're going to attract with what you can pay are going to be incredibly risky bets.

Lowtax
Nov 16, 1999

by Skyl3lazer
forget SA 2.0, let's upgrade directly to SA 666 since we're basically, according to forums experts, essentially Stormfront

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
wow lowtax i must have really gotten under your skin by suggesting that no one wants to buy ads for a site when a sizable chunk of its content is people "ironically" posting racist poo poo

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

Lowtax posted:

forget SA 2.0, let's upgrade directly to SA 666 since we're basically, according to forums experts, essentially Stormfront
heil satan

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord
friend of the family hitler lol

oh no blimp issue
Feb 23, 2011

open source a replacement sa, then the number of goons working on it will guarantee itll be poo poo from a butt

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
I will start the wiki which we can use as the forums

oh no blimp issue
Feb 23, 2011

genius, our problems solved in 1 fell swoop

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
groupons for sa accounts

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you
:rolleyes:

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
let's just pretend the forums don't have a huge racism problem and focus on the technical aspects.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
:10bux::10bux: to probate someone for 6 hours

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
3D Touch support

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

The Management posted:

let's just pretend the forums don't have a huge racism problem and focus on the technical aspects.

i kind of think the whole internet has a racism problem; it's like cosmic background radiation

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

The Management posted:

3D Touch support

oculus rift exclusive sub forum

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Lowtax posted:

forget SA 2.0, let's upgrade directly to SA 666 since we're basically, according to forums experts, essentially Stormfront

embed ripper into every page

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