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Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

alnilam posted:

Here's a question Jeffrey, and you may not know the answer yet. I assume that SA LLC is its own entity and has its own bank account, and I imagine you're going to let it build up some cash buffer, but... Do you ever plan to pay yourself income from SA LLC? I think it would be reasonable if you did, I mean you fronted the money to buy it after all and you are doing work to run the place. I appreciate the transparency and hope it continues and I think if you are going to pay a dev for their work (good idea) you would have every reason to pay yourself too.

A big problem with the previous ownership was, as others have said, bursting in here twice a year to say the forums are dying we need money, which I think most of us now know was never really true. His lying about this and lack of transparency is a big part of why people begrudged him of buying fancy cookies and stuff. But with the transparency you're giving, and running it like a non-profit, and putting the needs of SA first, I don't think it's inherently wrong to receive some income from the business you bought.

Seconding this.

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Wibla: Feb 16, 2011

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.

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

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: Feb 16, 2011

istewart posted:

instagram? is that one of those pot delivery services?

...do they have good sativas?

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