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Mr. Nice! posted:7%+ for processing fees? Holy cow, man, you're getting ROBBED. I don't know who you're using for payment processing, but there's no reason you should be paying more than 3%. Many processors don't even charge a percentage and just charge 25 cents per credit card transaction. Your processing fees are double what they should be.
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Jailbrekr posted:I am happy you are (hopefully?) going to take the killer forums content and monetize it on the front page. That itself would be the draw to the forums, because it'll showcase the site as a legitimate force on the internet, and that we like pie.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:It could be better certainly but it's never that good - often it's "interchange + 25 cents" where interchange is the passed through cost charged but the credit card company itself. Stripe is 2.9% + 30 cents with no interchange, which I think would be a small improvement. The real thing would be more payment method. I started looking at a few a bit ago. Square actually upped their rate from when I used them last. They're 2.9% plus 30 cents for api based transactions which ours certainly will be. I think you can accept ETF payments and perhaps even crypto that way, as well. Check with some major banks as well. BOFA used to call me often when I owned my food truck and offer me 0%+30 cents per. I stuck with square, though, because it was still just flat 2.7% for me which came out slightly cheaper per transaction. If my average transaction was higher it would have been worthwhile.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I started looking at a few a bit ago. Square actually upped their rate from when I used them last. They're 2.9% plus 30 cents for api based transactions which ours certainly will be. I think you can accept ETF payments and perhaps even crypto that way, as well. wh-why don't you check with BOFA deez nuts! I offer reasonable rates
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Apr 23, 2021 21:25
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Im willing to write articles and be paid in forums immunity
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Apr 23, 2021 21:32
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can you put a mode toggle somewhere like maybe under the forums nav dropdown at the bottom of the page or something? it's v tedious to change mode by going through the control panel on mobile and my geriatric eyeballs cannot discern anything while outside of my cave habitat also include extra modes for powerusers like darkroom mode or hot dog mode also dark mode fucks up so many smiles and tags lol
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SniperWoreConverse posted:also dark mode fucks up so many smiles and tags lol I believe there will be a thread for cleaning up those things.
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Apr 23, 2021 21:43
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i have been thinking it would be fun to do a weekend web thread, but i actually don't remember - were those originally forum sourced or did a writer do all of it? also is there a good reason for not doing those anymore 
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:linkable [...] random forum posts. i'm not sure if being able to link/embed a random post by itself to other sites would be good or terrible
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i still think there should be a breaking news chyron that just shows the first few hundred characters of the most recent post in any forum with absolutely no context whatsoever.
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Dark mode is cool af. Horrified there were no backups. Thanks for the work you guys are putting in, I'll be chipping in a small patreon amount.
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Apr 23, 2021 22:10
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SniperWoreConverse posted:to change mode by going through the control panel on mobile People use mobile browsers instead of apps? 
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:It could be better certainly but it's never that good - often it's "interchange + 25 cents" where interchange is the passed through cost charged by the credit card company itself. Stripe is 2.9% + 30 cents with no interchange, which I think would be a small improvement. The real thing would be more payment methods. Stripe has been very pleasant to work with in my limited experience. Implementing it is an afternoon's work.
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Thanks for taking on the task of stewarding these forums into a new and better era. Even after the lowtax implosion I was skeptical that it could be turned around, but the forums are making great strides I think. I don't have anyone in particular in mind, but I hope that there's some process of reversing the bans of the many posters that got hit with lowtax grudge bans and other dumb things like that (while keeping the terrible people out).
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Who What Now posted:Im willing to write articles and be paid in forums immunity 
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stfu bikeshedders literally piling in with colour opinions
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I don't even want to say monetize - my goal would be more to find like-minded people who would fit in with the culture here, and show them the value of forums over social media once they are here. Frontpage articles are just way more linkable than random forum posts. Personally I wouldn't mind if some of the money I spent on forums stuff went to your, the owner's, pocket. That said, it would kinda own if you converted this place to a non-profit. The hipster bragging rights would be sweet. It's probably more trouble than it's worth though.
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Jeffrey is doing what he promised he would do and good things are happening on this site and I'm not sure how to handle this because it's such an unfamiliar feeling Is this what it feels like to be loved
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Dante posted:Thanks for taking on the task of stewarding these forums into a new and better era. Even after the lowtax implosion I was skeptical that it could be turned around, but the forums are making great strides I think. I don't have anyone in particular in mind, but I hope that there's some process of reversing the bans of the many posters that got hit with lowtax grudge bans and other dumb things like that (while keeping the terrible people out). This has been going on, pm a mod or admin if you think someone has been missed.
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Apr 23, 2021 22:52
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As someone with poo poo vision, thank you very much for the dark mode!
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Gentle Autist posted:stfu bikeshedders
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Aardvark! posted:also is there a good reason for not doing those anymore because it is 2021 and no one other than us still uses forums I think
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DickParasite posted:lmao @ no backups. That's some poo poo. That's because Lowtax ate _all_ the cookies
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I love dork mode so much, thank you. Also while it is a horrifying alt-timeline to consider I do lol at the thought of what the photoshop response would have been if Lowtax or somebody else with backend access fatfingered the site into oblivion. YOU BLEW IT UP! YOU MANIACS!!
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Not much to say except Posting from dark mode and it's great! Thanks Jeffrey, LAB and astral!
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:Also while it is a horrifying alt-timeline to consider I do lol at the thought of what the photoshop response would have been if Lowtax or somebody else with backend access fatfingered the site into oblivion. YOU BLEW IT UP! YOU MANIACS!! would have been hilarious except the part where lowtax probably would have spun it as "the forums don't make enough money to afford a backup, please donate more!" and then bought cookies with the proceeds
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:I love dork mode so much, thank you. Being able to peer into that alternate timeline, I can assure you it would have simply been a redirect to the frontpage while they get XenForo 2.0 set up, it's totally coming you guys, they swear.
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Aardvark! posted:i have been thinking it would be fun to do a weekend web thread, but i actually don't remember - were those originally forum sourced or did a writer do all of it? also is there a good reason for not doing those anymore fyad did those iirc
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Gonna keep using normal people mode and keep my strong eyes tyvm
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Sorry if this has been covered, but since the site has to go down for several hours, would it be cost-effective to host failover servers at another site, using something like Zerto to handle the replication, or is that just too much of a headache and cost for a few hours downtime every so often?
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Dark mode is cool. Well that's my feedback thanks for the forums
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:DARK MODE. LITERALLY A BIRD This is what you get for trusting a literal bird. I want my money back.
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DamnCanadian posted:Sorry if this has been covered, but since the site has to go down for several hours, would it be cost-effective to host failover servers at another site, using something like Zerto to handle the replication, or is that just too much of a headache and cost for a few hours downtime every so often? However, yes, having servers at another site would be good overall and is something we're researching already.
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H110Hawk posted:This is what you get for trusting a literal bird. I want my money back. Sorry 
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What plans do the forums have for moving towards a 4-day posting week? Also can they be more dead and/or gay?
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Dark mode extremely owns, thank you guys for your service 
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Oh I almost forgot - one last thing. Not all the changes we've been working on have been under the hood. After so much time, I am super excited to announce DARK MODE. LITERALLY A BIRD and I have been working like crazy on this and we hope you enjoy it! Being such a long-awaited feature, we didn't want to half-rear end or disappoint - thought and effort were put into every page, and we hope it shows. You can turn it on here in your forum options. Let us know what you think and see known issues, here in this feedback thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3965797 YES!
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