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Lowtax posted:Yeah I know that's the obvious answer but I just wanted to let you guys know that, even though I'm not around posting, I'm still trying to do poo poo to improve The Something Awful Forum Browsing Experience, Now In Stereo Sound. I didn't want anybody to think I was abandoning the place, and I've been actively trying to find ways to functionally make poo poo better for you all. Right now my current issue is that our previous admin, ZDR, took $4,000 from me and then stopped all communication and blocked me, and he did not deliver the server documentation I asked him for, so when and if I find another sysadmin who does not get addicted to opioids and steal my loving money, they can understand how this spaghetti factory of code and VMs all work together. gently caress whats the best way to donate to you where patron or credit card processing or w/e doesn't take 20% of the funds? or is buying avatars and stuff pretty low in terms of fees? do you get the full $5/$10 from that?
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Save the dough, bro. Didn't notice poo poo.
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Xaris posted:whats the best way to donate to you where patron or credit card processing or w/e doesn't take 20% of the funds? Send a check to Richard Lowtax in Missouri
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When this website is slow for me it's always a Google/Twitter/Imgur/whatever site issue that's making pages load slow.
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Sid Vicious posted:Send a check to Richard Lowtax in Missouri i'm a millennials whats a check
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Noticed nothing in terms of forum speed. I'm a computer and internet toucher.
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Sep 4, 2019 04:09
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what a scam. just give me $1000 instead. the forums speed will remain unaffected but at least one person will be happier in the end
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Xaris posted:whats the best way to donate to you where patron or credit card processing or w/e doesn't take 20% of the funds? or is buying avatars and stuff pretty low in terms of fees? do you get the full $5/$10 from that? buy sid a pizza (extra cheese!)
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Xaris posted:i'm a millennials whats a check Ligma balls
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have you consulted jeff k on this decision. iirc he knows a lot about computers
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As long as whatever computer server box the Rowdy Trout is living in is still turned on I think I am content, op
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Sep 4, 2019 04:14
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also i honestly didn't notice, so i would guess ludicrous speed may not be worth it. theres probably a difference but they seem about as fast as usual to me
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Sep 4, 2019 04:16
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Can we go plaid for even more money?
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*lowtax goes flying across the room and explodes his neck* No, go past this part. In fact never play this again
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Sep 4, 2019 04:18
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Turn it off and lend me the money. Also, was ZDR really just radium again under a different name?
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Sep 4, 2019 04:28
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Totally not worth it. Sucks that the xenforo migration never happened. I got the sense that it would have eliminated a lot of the bullshit going on behind the scenes with whatever godawful hacked together version of vbulletin or whatever this forum runs on.
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Sep 4, 2019 04:29
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honestly i'm more surprised that the Be More Faster toggle in Cloudflare is only $750/wk
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Sep 4, 2019 04:31
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Go for the even slower speed so that more posts happen while I endlessly refresh these forums over the next 16 years
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Sep 4, 2019 04:31
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Did your prior admins put like PayPal integrated features into crontab scripts named kdjfksskfif.sh spread across 20 randomly named servers on different Linux distros?
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Sep 4, 2019 04:34
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i'd rather have slower forums than no forums, its all good man
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Sep 4, 2019 04:36
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It's nice but not thousands of dollars nice.
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Sep 4, 2019 04:36
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I can't even remember to tell the difference so prob not
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Sep 4, 2019 04:37
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The forums were faster??? Did you make me realize I have a lovely ISP and have a very low bar of what I consider "fast internet forums" Forums seem fine. Save money, gently caress bitches, drink drugs, be gay.
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I'll donate some moola when my check comes. I'm not anywhere near rich but I suppose instead of hoarding even more expensive rare plants that I could push some of that dough your way. Slow this poo poo down, just reading about that bill made my rear end in a top hat clench, and not in the good way.
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Chiming in to say I didn't notice the speed at all either and I don't think it's worth it.
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Lowtax posted:Yeah I know that's the obvious answer but I just wanted to let you guys know that, even though I'm not around posting, I'm still trying to do poo poo to improve The Something Awful Forum Browsing Experience, Now In Stereo Sound. I didn't want anybody to think I was abandoning the place, and I've been actively trying to find ways to functionally make poo poo better for you all. Right now my current issue is that our previous admin, ZDR, took $4,000 from me and then stopped all communication and blocked me, and he did not deliver the server documentation I asked him for, so when and if I find another sysadmin who does not get addicted to opioids and steal my loving money, they can understand how this spaghetti factory of code and VMs all work together. gently caress Did you piss off a witch or something? fake edit: I didn't notice the speed changes either.
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Mr. Sloth posted:Turn it off and lend me the money. Zen Death Radium
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Xaris posted:whats the best way to donate to you where patron or credit card processing or w/e doesn't take 20% of the funds? or is buying avatars and stuff pretty low in terms of fees? do you get the full $5/$10 from that? The best way to help fund is by buying forums poo poo. Our CC processor and gateway only end up taking around 5% fees.
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gently caress the cloudflare speed, I didn't notice poo pooLowtax posted:Right now my current issue is that our previous admin, ZDR, took $4,000 from me and then stopped all communication and blocked me, and he did not deliver the server documentation I asked him for, so when and if I find another sysadmin who does not get addicted to opioids and steal my loving money, they can understand how this spaghetti factory of code and VMs all work together. gently caress Wow that sucks
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I honestly didn't notice the speed difference. Save the money, man!
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Sid Vicious posted:Dude, Richard, just let the forums run at normal speed, that is absolutely insane and I for one appreciate you asking and I think I speak for everyone when I say don't go spending that much money especially with what is happening with your health and the fact that you have another kid and stuff dude. I'm coming out of my dumbass retard troll shell to say we do not need the extra speed my man That is well said Sid. I'm on satellite, it sucks either way, can't tell a difference.
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Lowtax posted:The best way to help fund is by buying forums poo poo. Our CC processor and gateway only end up taking around 5% fees. Is there a way for you to add a donation option to the forums store where people can input whatever amount they want to give you or anything like that, I realize front end stuff is hard so if not would you suggest people just purchase like av certs etc and give em out or something like that?
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Yeah I can tell when reindexing kicks in and things get really slow but lately things have seemed normal. Save the dough.
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I didn't notice it was faster until you said something. Definitely not worth it.
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Sid Vicious posted:Is there a way for you to add a donation option to the forums store where people can input whatever amount they want to give you or anything like that, I realize front end stuff is hard so if not would you suggest people just purchase like av certs etc and give em out or something like that? There is a Donate link, I assume that uses the same cc/gateway processor? 5% isn't bad then. https://secure.somethingawful.com/products/donate.php Xaris fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Sep 4, 2019 |
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Every time I load these forums letter by letter, I loving shake with excitement. This crazy speed is taking away my one high please stop Richard
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Lowtax you definitely have my permission to not spend 3000 dollars each month in fact you have my permission to get as wealthy as possible just go nuts with it.
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Pull up lowtax, pull up, pull up
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Sid Vicious posted:Is there a way for you to add a donation option to the forums store where people can input whatever amount they want to give you or anything like that, I realize front end stuff is hard so if not would you suggest people just purchase like av certs etc and give em out or something like that? Come to the lurker thread. Buy avs and plat
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Burt Sexual posted:Come to the lurker thread. Buy avs and plat Oh I don't have any money Burt I'm trying to convince someone to buy me a pizza I just meant for those who are able, I'm helping in my own way. Everyone who has loads of money please go and buy lots of avs and plat for folks and hell buy your grandma an account. Also buy me a pizza lol
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