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No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Hire someone to port all of the database to a fresh bulletin board install and run it on a dreamhost server.

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No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Real Answer: Find out which forums have the mosts posts from accounts that pay the most money.

Basically, assign every account a dollar value, then see how much of that dollar value is posting in each forum over the last 2 years, then break it down in to quarters.

Find your high spenders, and create a strategy around them.

Do we have a forum that has a poo poo load of traffic (like fyad) and no actual cash (like bfc)? Because that's a great forum to delete to save on bandwidth/servers while keeping cash flow the same.

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

oh i'm sorry, you want "quality" not "money"

I didn't know we were living in a communist Bernie Sanders wet dream

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Wouldn't new software and moving the forums off of Katrina-era hardware onto a cloud-hosted solution be a bit cheaper? I mean, if we're believing it costs thousands a month to run this place, then there has to be some costs that can be scaled down with as much bandwidth and computing power as there is available today.

I could also be full of poo poo because my job is just to take the engineers requirements and make sure they're fulfilled correctly.

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Is there some way to turn SA into a ponzi scheme?

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Raise money to permaban users.

Start with OP.

No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Thoguh posted:

I'd imagine there would be a large one time cost for the move and Lowtax doesn't think it is worth the cost since it isn't like it would lead to a whole bunch of new registrations. Though a couple more downtime incidents might change that calculation.

Well that's one.

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No Butt Stuff
Jun 10, 2004

Ban everyone with a 9/11 reg date so we can all forget.

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