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Extrapolating from available data, SA will be unsustainable by March 1st. It has been a pleasure posting with all of you.
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Avicus posted:How does a paypal subscription option compare against patreon? I haven't seen it mentioned here. i'd guess that it would be slightly cheaper, just pp fees instead of patreon + pp fees
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 19:57 |
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I can’t find DPPH and am confused by this monster truck talk
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 19:58 |
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madsushi posted:
gonna short the forums p hard and be a bitte coin billionairey
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 19:58 |
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I would absolutely contribute to a forums patreon. Some of those proposed projects sound awesome and I'm glad to see they're in the works.
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Waltzing Along posted:If the previous owner had been this transparent about the sites income, no one would have given him $$ during one of his begging sprees. almost as though he was scamming us
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 19:58 |
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When am I getting my loving spaceship pictures?
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 19:59 |
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I hope you're compensating yourself for the cost your labor. I wouldn't want to preside over this sounder of swine for free. Would also kick in a few bucks to a Patreon.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:00 |
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maybe we could save on hosting costs by encouraging people 2 not pst so mny fckg lettrs & wrds. jst a thght
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:04 |
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ChubbyChecker posted:lmao at how much lowtax lied I bet he never even had a spine!
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:05 |
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Put the sites profit into a financial vehicle managed by cumshitter: the Something Awful hedge fund.don't actually do this. But yeah, keep the 10 bucks reg fee,and go with the patreon idea.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:05 |
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Cannon_Fodder posted:When am I getting my loving spaceship pictures?
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:07 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I've been looking into this and it's hard. I certainly don't like the idea of paying patreon a cut though, clearly, the credit card companies take their cut as well. Subscription code would have to function differently from existing code, because I don't want to store any payment information on our side, and we'd need a way to set and expire your subscription status without you personally making web requests to do it. It's something I want but, imo, it will be a long time before the gains actually outweigh the development and maintenance cost. Unlike the forums I am not attached to our current store software and am going to be evaluating alternatives. With modern carts and payment gateways credit card information should be on the gateway level, even for recurring payments. An updated cart would allow you to leverage PayPal which is great for folks who for whatever reason can’t or won’t get a CC. I’m willing to bet lowtax wasn’t doing his pci compliance poo poo because he seems like a lazy rear end in a top hat.
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GABA ghoul posted:maybe we could save on hosting costs by encouraging people 2 not pst so mny fckg lettrs & wrds. jst a thght If Wheel of Fortune has taught me anything, it's that vowels cost money
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:10 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:While I have purchased the assets of Something Awful LLC, I have not purchased its debts. My hands are clean. Great. Now who am I going to harangue about the CITY NAME SPORTS TEAM t-shirt I ordered in the mid aughts?
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:11 |
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Cannon_Fodder posted:When am I getting my loving spaceship pictures? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3943531
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:12 |
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i saw this thread because rope kid tweeted about it
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:12 |
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October 22nd - October 31st, 2020: Raw store revenue: $8,401.55 Processing fees: -$509.30 Goldbelly cookies: -$5000 Hosting cost: -$1,127.33 Office rental: -$2000 Car Payments:-$750 Spineshard realignment:-$1000 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my forums are dying
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frodnonnag posted:October 22nd - October 31st, 2020: Spend less on cookies.
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Full Metal Jackass posted:Spend less on cookies. No.
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If you want ‘forum goer market share’ you’ll need to figure out how to position SA as the anti-Reddit that is also worth spending $10 on. The $10 should be understood to gate the community off from the worst kind of internet posters. You should purge your mod teams of the shittier ones, ban them from posting, and do away with the probation entirely. Sometimes mods act like salty cliquey dorks and aren’t really quality posters. If someone posts something bannable then ban them. Quit probating people it’s weak
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:17 |
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Cowcaster posted:i saw this thread because rope kid tweeted about it
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:20 |
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Good job Jeffro Voted 5
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:22 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:As promised, I figured I'd give an update regarding the forums finances and where we are at. I want to be open about such things - the money we make is to be managed by me on behalf of the community, rather than funding my own lifestyle, and as such there is no reason for me to keep these numbers private. how many goldbellies does this buy you
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:24 |
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100% on board for a small subscription to fund improvements. this place owns and I hate the rest of the internet.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:27 |
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Black August posted:I think the best use of the front page would be to condense it into an approved feed of forums content, with plenty of forum links. Which is something that should come AFTER the forums themselves are cleaned up and improved- it should be the last thing done. I think that way the front page could serve as an advertisement for the forums. Include a small timeline about it being 20 years strong and better than ever. Show off things SA is famous/responsible for. Advertise it as an anti to social media. Agreed
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:27 |
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BIG NORTH posted:I hate the internet.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:28 |
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w/r/t the front page, one thing to consider, maybe, is redirecting somethingawful.com to the forums (or maybe just the goldmine)? If the goal here is attract new users, I think an ancient looking article collection page with a "pardon our dust" message at the top is a major stumbling block. You can always keep the front page as somethingawful.com/weirdoldfrontpagerelic and bring it back once we have a clue what it should be for. Almost everyone here bought an account because of something they saw on the forums anyway (I can remember the thread that brought me on board), it's not like Lowtax's ICQ pranks are bringing people in. e: i think highlighting good forums threads is fine, but typically the articles that try to walk people through them are cringe, so it probably takes more thought than that.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:28 |
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Please do a Patreon. I'd subscribe a small amount per month in a heatbeat, with or without perks.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:29 |
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How do you plan on growing the forums?
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Arrhythmia posted:How do you plan on growing the forums? lots and lots and lots of fertilizer
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:30 |
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i am a moron posted:If someone posts something bannable then ban them. Quit probating people it’s weak (I have no idea if long probes are even a thing anymore, I feel like I haven't seen many)
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:31 |
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Keep the Nazis out (not quarantined but completely out) and I'd gladly support a Patreon. SA is really important to me, I've seen it evolve in to a really great community and ensuring that it stays afloat is pretty high on my list.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:31 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Please do a Patreon. I'd subscribe a small amount per month in a heatbeat, with or without perks. This. Or getting bought by Yahoo. Yahoo Something Awnful.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:31 |
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I like the idea of a Patreon. Thumbs up from me.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:34 |
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I will contribute monthly to a Patreon. Post a link!
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:34 |
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Inzombiac posted:Keep the Nazis out (not quarantined but completely out) and I'd gladly support a Patreon. I second this. I'm poor, but I'd throw a few bucks a month at SA. This is one of the best places in the internet, and I'd be down for supporting it. Not to sound like a total nerd, but SA has genuinely made me a better person and has helped me though some bad times.
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# ? Jan 27, 2021 20:35 |
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Black August posted:I think the best use of the front page would be to condense it into an approved feed of forums content, with plenty of forum links. Which is something that should come AFTER the forums themselves are cleaned up and improved- it should be the last thing done. I think that way the front page could serve as an advertisement for the forums. Include a small timeline about it being 20 years strong and better than ever. Show off things SA is famous/responsible for. Advertise it as an anti to social media. FWIW I agree with this. All the best front page stuff was basically "best of the forums" summaries. And I love the idea of us being the alternative to social media since it's very quickly become a toxic wasteland.
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dee eight posted:lots and lots and lots of fertilizer We're gonna need you to post more
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