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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  
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Apr 24, 2021 00:42
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So was Lowtax just pocketing the difference between the costs and revenue? I should start a dead comedy forum...
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Katamari Democracy posted:The only thing I do not like about my Dark theme, and sorry if this sounds selfish. But my Tank icon next to my name, which I really love a lot, is hard to see in dark mode. It shows up just fine to me. You might just need glasses, friend. E: A whole lotta people ITT who are gonna realize the color settings on their monitors have been hosed for years and they never realized it
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Apr 24, 2021 01:04
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:So was Lowtax just pocketing the difference between the costs and revenue? “Pocketing” sort of implies that that the money stayed in his pocket for any longer than it took to fork it immediately over to his pill and cookie dealers
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Apr 24, 2021 01:05
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Malachite_Dragon posted:It shows up just fine to me. You might just need glasses, friend. Well its super dark. Not light how the grenade icons look
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:What plans do the forums have for moving towards a 4-day posting week? The deadness and gayness of the forums are strictly interrelated and so if you lower deadness by adding new users or even additional posts it is inevitable that the forums must become more gay to compensate. I for one welcome our new homoerotic overlords
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Apr 24, 2021 01:10
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Great work, cheers to everyone something something krust
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Apr 24, 2021 01:11
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Many great thank yous to our new forums overlords! The SA forums have been a bug part of my life for many years and it is great to see people that actually care running them. The SA Forums are dead! Long live the SA Forums!
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MH Knights posted:The SA Forums are dead and gay! Long live the SA Forums!
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Apr 24, 2021 01:16
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:So was Lowtax just pocketing the difference between the costs and revenue? Ya it was his business, income minus expenses = profit. He apparently wasnt paying taxes on it thought which is why he had the huge tax debt and was broke.
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Apr 24, 2021 01:30
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Sorry
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Apr 24, 2021 01:51
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:So was Lowtax just pocketing the difference between the costs and revenue? Yes including whatever he got from ad revenue and the patreon. If you haven’t noticed, jeff stopped all ads except goon purchased ones.
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Knormal posted:Are you literally an owl? Because if not I'm afraid you may not be qualified to work on dark mode. I wish you'd told me sooner 
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Apr 24, 2021 02:01
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:So was Lowtax just pocketing the difference between the costs and revenue? Why are people surprised by this or mad about it? That's how business works
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Epitope posted:Why are people surprised by this or mad about it? That's how business works People are mad because he frequently told us that costs were higher than revenues and that if we didn't donate to SA's coffers it was going to go under. That may still be how business works but it's okay to be pissed off about it when the truth comes out.
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Apr 24, 2021 02:17
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Epitope posted:Why are people surprised by this or mad about it? That's how business works We're mad because he lied to us multiple times about the financial state of the site and outright said he couldn't afford to pay the hosting bills at one point He did these grifts in between leasing luxury cars and buying $95 boxes of cookies online and spending the rest on who the gently caress knows
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Apr 24, 2021 02:23
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Then there are the donation drives for Xenforo while being a fuckhead about paying people for any of their work.
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Yo Jeff, just wanted to say that I like how you've been running the forums. I'm hoping this post doesn't end up aging extremely poorly after you turn out to be some kind of luxury cookie-devouring wife abuser. I literally installed a plugin for SA dark mode yesterday (after my covid vaccine shot decided that it would be fun to make my eyeballs feel like they were about to explode) so I'm glad to see it get official support.
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Apr 24, 2021 03:01
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Ok that's fair. I guess I just feel if Jeff buys a sports car but the forums keep going, I got my money's worth.
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Apr 24, 2021 03:17
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drat just looking at those numbers You can really get a sense of how much lowtax was bilking us all. Good on you Jeffrey
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Apr 24, 2021 03:18
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I wish you'd told me sooner  Now there's a face I trust with CSS color schemes!
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Apr 24, 2021 03:49
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Holy poo poo thank you so much for dark mode. I have eyeball issues and this is so much better.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:13
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gently caress yeah dank mode owns
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Apr 24, 2021 04:46
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SatansOnion posted:“Pocketing” sort of implies that that the money stayed in his pocket for any longer than it took to fork it immediately over to his pill and cookie dealers you forgot the car payments for the GTR
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Knormal posted:Nightjar, or ideally potoo, will also work. I wouldn't. Seriously. I have opinions about colour schemes. You won't like 'em.
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Epitope posted:Why are people surprised by this or mad about it? That's how business works This isn't the problem. There were many times where he misled the community as to the financials of the website. There were posts where he outright claimed there were DIRE FINANCIAL STRAITS!! Donate now!! ...When apparently after some transparency, the website has pretty much always consistently pulled a profit, especially so after going to the cloud. He was grifting to fund a drug and goldbelly cookie habit. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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Apr 24, 2021 06:45
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Dark mode rules and so do Jeffrey and astral and bird 
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Apr 24, 2021 06:50
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This dark mode is amazing. Personally it feels like a whole new forum for me. Nice job peeps!
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Apr 24, 2021 07:19
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Just gotta laugh and say "remember how Lowtax said he was barely able to afford the '$3000' hosting costs every month"? lmao He was fleecing everyone
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Apr 24, 2021 07:24
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Before the 2016 cloud move, the hosting costs were, in fact, much higher, but my understanding is the forums also made even more money back then.
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Apr 24, 2021 07:27
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This mode is snazzy and I like it.
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astral posted:Before the 2016 cloud move, the hosting costs were, in fact, much higher, but my understanding is the forums also made even more money back then. 
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Apr 24, 2021 08:26
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This is great, maybe this place will survive after all. After all it's been through, it deserves to. I have some suggestions for spending money:
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spankmeister posted:This is great, maybe this place will survive after all. After all it's been through, it deserves to. This would be nice to have someday. quote:
We would eventually like to see Attachments 2.0, a modern system that would allow you to attach more than one image to a post,  not keep the images stored in the database , and have actual ease-of-use (drag-and-drop convenience, images not disappearing on post preview, can edit/remove them without involving a moderator, etc.).Not an arbitrary image host, though—just post attachments.
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spankmeister posted:[*] an image hosting service of our very own, one that doesn't try to obnoxiously pivot into "social media" like imgur, or disappear like tinypic or imageshack, or burst into flames like waffleimages, If this is available I would like an option whenever I upload an image to autodelete it after a week or a year or so. Quite often I just want to share something once and I don't want to stick it around on the internet forever (yes I know people can just copypaste it and upload it elsewhere but still I like to have some control over my uploads). === Also, for the people who keep talking about the previous owner's lies, please remember that Jeffrey's very nickname isn't the truth. I got a copy of Jeffrey's birth cert right here and he definitely wasn't born in YOSPOS.
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Apr 24, 2021 08:40
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$0.50 to change an avatar for 24 hours when 
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I just wanted to add to the discussion that the financials kind of prove what a lying sack of poo poo Lowtax was especially with how often he begged people to buy stuff. I think at one point he implored people to turn-off adbloc k(yeah, good luck getting goons to do that) because things were that dire. I knew something was up when the forums kept chugging along every month and all Lowtax did was go "buy more poo poo!" and not delve into what he was doing to cut costs like troubled businesses have to do at some point. Anyways, I support our own image uploading service as well. We unofficially use Imgur but it would be nice for sheer convenience to not have to visit an exterior site.
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Justin Godscock posted:Anyways, I support our own image uploading service as well. We unofficially use Imgur but it would be nice for sheer convenience to not have to visit an exterior site. Personally I'm more worried about their escalating anti-adblock masures. The forums have so many imgur images at this point that I would hate to see it go the way of imageshack, waffleimages, etc.
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