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I would certainly love to see better image hosting than imgur. We always joke about what classic threads would look like if imgur went under but it truly would be a tragedy. If we do end up with our own image hosting, might also be good to use a script to automatically transfer imgur files over and update the links. Image hosting might be a tall order though, it's a lot of files especially with the kids these days and their 15 megapixel cameras and their 3 minute gifs
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Palpek posted:Oh wow, there's a second angle this is a damned renaissance painting
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alnilam posted:I would certainly love to see better image hosting than imgur. We always joke about what classic threads would look like if imgur went under but it truly would be a tragedy. If we do end up with our own image hosting, might also be good to use a script to automatically transfer imgur files over and update the links. I don't think we should wait for a new SA image host to be online before doing this. While we can be reasonably certain that imgur will stick around for a while, we have no idea what they'll do with older files as they continue monetizing their platform. All the imgur links on SA should be scraped, cross-referenced and archived for when poo poo hits the fan, even though it will take some resources to do so.
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Wibla posted:I don't think we should wait for a new SA image host to be online before doing this. While we can be reasonably certain that imgur will stick around for a while, we have no idea what they'll do with older files as they continue monetizing their platform. It's worth remembering that this was one of the purposes of both Photoshop Phridays and Comedy Goldmine articles, to reliably archive at least a representative sample of the best threads and their images. They were really more for morale but still, there's a backed-up record at all, that's something.
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Jan 29, 2021 18:05
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Palpek posted:Oh wow, there's a second angle I mean, honestly, this just needs to be the background to the entire forums.
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Jan 29, 2021 18:26
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I don't know what I'm doing then, but it doesn't require me to watch a video to upload something. I tried it with and without ublock turned on in Chrome and it was the same either way. I do have a free Imgur account, but I haven't had to watch any ads ever.
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Jan 29, 2021 18:29
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^ I've seen the imgur emerald thing personally, so it's not a joke image - they're clearly doing AB testing and slowly turning up the heat on the boiling pot We should edit the post-adding script to scan for any imgur links and automatically curl them for a backup, and once that's in place run a db query to grab all existing linked images and churn through backing them up. Once there's an archive of images, it'll be easy to transfer them to the new server and (optionally) modify the existing links in the post db. For comedy points, we could buy the old waffle domain if it's cheap Sentient Data fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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Its interesting skipping from a thread where someone is railing about how excessive computer usage is a massive drain on the planets limited resources to a thread where someone is talking about redundantly leeching and storing every meme posted here as extremely important cultural artifacts. Might wanna keep in mind that we are already being archived by the Library of Congress, so its unlikely that imgur dying will cause everything to go poof to the ages.
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Sentient Data posted:^ I've seen the imgur emerald thing personally, so it's not a joke image - they're clearly doing AB testing and slowly turning up the heat on the boiling pot Once I saw the ad-wall I decided to swap to: https://postimages.org/
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Jan 29, 2021 18:48
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RFC2324 posted:Its interesting skipping from a thread where someone is railing about how excessive computer usage is a massive drain on the planets limited resources to a thread where someone is talking about redundantly leeching and storing every meme posted here as extremely important cultural artifacts. I think the LoC thing turned out to just be certain select things from the front page, they are not actively archiving the entire forums.
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Jan 29, 2021 18:56
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alnilam posted:I think the LoC thing turned out to just be certain select things from the front page, they are not actively archiving the entire forums. My understanding is it's the entire front page but that's it. And we were never able to confirm that it was still happening.
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Jan 29, 2021 19:00
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:My understanding is it's the entire front page but that's it. And we were never able to confirm that it was still happening. You can go to the LoC website and the listing for SA shows the last time it was updated. It was still doing so last year, but appears to only update every few months.
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Jan 29, 2021 19:01
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RFC2324 posted:You can go to the LoC website and the listing for SA shows the last time it was updated. It was still doing so last year, but appears to only update every few months. Cool, thank you. I just remembered it being spotty and nobody having a solid reason for why. Some of the older records seemed more thorough.
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Cool, thank you. I just remembered it being spotty and nobody having a solid reason for why. Some of the older records seemed more thorough. https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0009701/ There ya go. I'm in the bathtub phoneposting so I'm not going to go through to see what got archived, but its as recent as 2020.
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Wow, 176 snapshots, mostly between 2014 and 2019. Nothing from 2020 yet. And not nearly everything from any period. Too bad.
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:Wow, 176 snapshots, mostly between 2014 and 2019. Nothing from 2020 yet. And not nearly everything from any period. Too bad.  Everyone need to call their congresscritters to have this travesty fixed.
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It does feel bad when things on the internet are lost to the ages. Not even the waybackmachine can save it all. All we are is goatse in the wind...
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Jan 29, 2021 19:17
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This is the best thing anyone's ever done with my ugly mug
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Jan 29, 2021 19:19
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Pick posted:let's put low tax behind us, including whatever sum of money he got. he is not relevant any more.
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Jan 29, 2021 20:17
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You should amortize the cost of the site over time and pay yourself back some of the purchase price. IMO. .. Unless you killing it irl and have money to spare. I guess. But even then.
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Fiddler on the Reef posted:You should amortize the cost of the site over time and pay yourself back some of the purchase price. IMO. This is a legit idea, I think you'd have the support of the huge majority of the users since you're putting in actual work
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i am a moron posted:If someone posts something bannable then ban them. Quit probating people it’s weak Nick/post combo.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:34
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I will suck genitals for dark mode.
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Jan 29, 2021 21:59
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BubbaGrace posted:I will suck genitals for dark mode. Get the app. You can still suck genitals though if you wish.
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BubbaGrace posted:I will suck genitals for dark mode. if this is not feasible, a option to add our own CSS so we can do this ourselves I would probably make the "User control panel" link bigger when I am browsing the site on my iphone, and maybe the "last page" link Tei fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 29, 2021 |
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Jan 29, 2021 22:20
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BubbaGrace posted:I will suck genitals for dark mode. Firefox > Dark Reader (im sure other browsers have an equivalent-- uh just be warned that spoiler warnings won't work because inverted colors)
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Jan 29, 2021 22:34
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Just read yospos exclusively
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Start a Patreon, I'll support it. The last few years have convinced me utterly that nearly any other form of internet communication is deleterious to society as a whole, while also convincing me that the real world impact of ironic message boards cannot be denied. There's few other places where I actually look forward to reading other people's posts and opinions at this point. SA forever.
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Supreme Allah posted:Firefox > Dark Reader This is the reason I don't use dark reader, cause the stupid spoiler poo poo. Please build in a dark mode.
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Paying for content for the front page seems like a great use of the money. We've had some very talented authors (Zack Parsons comes to mind, in particular) who have created fantastic content here over the years which might not exist or may have been far less easy to come across had it not been for the frontpage. Additionally, there are many artistic and talented goons (twoday and 2Dcat come to mind because I'm a c-spam main but there are definitely many more as the recent travelling showcase proved) who might appreciate having articles promoting their work AND linking to the threads where they're posting it in case any readers want to talk to the artists. Non forum members encountering SA this way would be more likely to register if the vibrancy of the community was highlighted like this.
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Sing Along posted:Paying for content for the front page seems like a great use of the money. We've had some very talented authors (Zack Parsons comes to mind, in particular) who have created fantastic content here over the years which might not exist or may have been far less easy to come across had it not been for the frontpage. Additionally, there are many artistic and talented goons (twoday and 2Dcat come to mind because I'm a c-spam main but there are definitely many more as the recent travelling showcase proved) who might appreciate having articles promoting their work AND linking to the threads where they're posting it in case any readers want to talk to the artists. Non forum members encountering SA this way would be more likely to register if the vibrancy of the community was highlighted like this. Interesting idea, and if I could make a further suggestion... based on this thread, there seem to be a fair amount of goons who are unemployed or underemployed due to the pandemic. If you are considering paying for front page content, why not give starving goons first crack at it?
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Gynovore posted:Interesting idea, and if I could make a further suggestion... based on this thread, there seem to be a fair amount of goons who are unemployed or underemployed due to the pandemic. If you are considering paying for front page content, why not give starving goons first crack at it? This seems like a fantastic addition. I had sorta taken for granted that we'd be finding content creators internally and from people who'd done it in the past, but I'm realizing that commissioning content made by people with known internet presences (which they could then post links to from their social media) would also be a good way to attract traffic and signups. Sing Along fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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Further along these lines, an asset that SA has which isn't immediately apparent is its 75 domain authority according to Moz's DA rankings. This means that there are almost certainly people who would be willing to create content for the front page in exchange for an embedded backlink to their websites. All links posed on SA are tagged as nofollow by default, which means that they don't count from an SEO perspective, but that could be changed for these front page posts specifically and it would absolutely attract people if they were aware that it was a possibility. I have no idea about Jeff's thoughts here but if the forums are managed to the standard that it appears that they're being and we start to see healthy growth and more people being added to payrolls of various kinds, running this more like a co-op intended to create a sustainable and unique cultural space and invest in the production of culture is something that I believe would be appealing to pretty much everybody posting here. Sing Along fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jan 30, 2021 |
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It’s time to shed the front page. Make the forum index the front page. It’s been dead for months and nobody outside of sa has cared or noticed. The domain will never trend anywhere with high thanks to grandfathered algorithms from the “poison womb” days of edgelorde trash content. Let it die. Don’t waste money on it. Make it available as a zip file for anyone that must see hulk hogan defeat the twin towers once more and yuck it up at fart smelling deviants, but like lowtax it’s time for his beloved front page to be shelved and slowly forgotten.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Jeff please install a copy of TradeWars on the somethingawful server and link to it from the main navigation header without fanfare or comment and it will fast grow in legend as the most infamous TW instance ever and draw in a host of envious 40-50 year old huge nerd. Hell yes. In fact we need door games TW2002 LORD SRE all that poo poo it was so fun
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Gynovore posted:Oh god Trade Wars. The memories that brings back. Seriously. When I found the stardock? I felt like a loving king I tell you Wait oh my god there's graffiti in the shitter?? Oh wow
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Tei posted:if this is not feasible, a option to add our own CSS so we can do this ourselves https://add0n.com/stylus.html there are 2 SA dark mode styles around but userstyles.org is down at the moment edit: https://userstyles.org/styles/149412/something-awful-dark-theme https://userstyles.org/styles/150498/something-awfully-wronger
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Use the money to buy some land on Hawaii then let goons start a perfect new society there, maybe build a gate together and get injured while trying to hunt a wild boar.
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