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It’s neither really Sean. I paid upfront for a year for the basic level domain and shared hosting as that’s the best value. That has been covered now by the subs and donations and for the toolbox and template upgrades. The rest I am leaving in the account and when it comes time to renew again in September will use that to see what better package can be afforded. I know it remains functional but a bit slow.
As to those that didn’t stay too long in the new iteration. I did all my testing on my PC and underestimated really how many accessed using their phones, where the experience was quite poor. I think people were a bit too polite to want to point that out and instead just drifted off. Some probably just moved on as their interests changed which has always happened.
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I don’t understand how anybody could stop being interested in arguing about Man of Steel
Maybe they missed the “discussions” about Prometheus.
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I don’t understand how anybody could stop being interested in arguing about Man of Steel
You’re a day late, mate. Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of MoS.
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There was an update to the forum template just released yesterday. It looks the same to me to be honest but maybe it fixed stuff for particular devices or configs and that’s why yours looks better now.
Speaking of donations. I’m coming up to renewal of the hosting contract at the end of August. I’m planning to move to a faster plan but all the companies are only giving their best deals for 3 years and we’re a bit short. This is not make or break as I can renew for a year but it would be cool to secure 3 years. We’d need about $150.
I’ll leave it up to you guys if you want to send anything to the Paypal donate link on the homepage and see if we can make it.
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It’s ok Anders, I never want to put any pressure for people to contribute because we all have different circumstances. Some are millionaires like Jerry and others have more challenging finances. Just put in what you feel, if you can afford it.
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No worries, Gareth. The only pressure I feel comes from myself. I owe you guys a lot for this place, for the love and support I got through my rough patches, and for all the laughter and joy being a part of this community has given me. It’s priceless. Really.
Money is just money.
Besides, if I contribute you might hesitate before banning me for my neverending shitposting everywhere all the time.
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Some are millionaires like Jerry
Wait…what?!
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I have tech people here Jerry, we know all about the accounts in the British Virgin Islands.
Weird, I didn’t have Jerry pegged for a virgin…
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I have tech people here Jerry, we know all about the accounts in the British Virgin Islands.
That certainly comes as a surprise to me!
Weird, I didn’t have Jerry pegged for a virgin…
That certainly comes as a surprise to my wife and kids?
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It’s okay “Jerry” you’re amongst friends.
Also acquaintances, well-wishers, enemies and nemeses.
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*Waves to Tim*
HELLOOOOOOO. I’M RIGHT HERE!
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The ‘ignore user’ option is still available. The link to do it is just below ‘participant’ on the profile bit on the left. You may have clicked it by accident.
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Found it and disabled it. You should be able to see the posts again.
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I’m stealing this whole thing as the script for a lockdown romantic comedy.
May I suggest a slight increase to 4mm between posts?
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The ‘ignore user’ option is still available. The link to do it is just below ‘participant’ on the profile bit on the left. You may have clicked it by accident.
It doesn’t seem.to show up on phone which is what I exclusively use so not sure what happened. Thanks for fixing though
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Gremlins, definitely gremlins.
Good evening / good morning Tim! How are you? Did you miss me?
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No worries, thanks for replying – I can’t tell you either Gar and I rate your tech skills ahead of mine.
Google is a bit mixed on it, sounds ominous but also looks like it might be done en masse and remotely so don’t think there’s much that can be done. Just one of those things of being online so always have a firewall on.
Portscanning and portsniffing is, I might very well be mistaken, someone scanning all activity on a specific port to see what information is being sent through it. It’s mostly hunting for passwords and credit card numbers and stuff.
I think it works like this. Even if you’re on a website that encrypts shit for you, the act of you sending the information from your computer to the website is not necessarily encrypted. That’s what they’re sniffing. Since http uses specific ports per standard, they can easily be sniffed.
True story: We (me and a mate) used to do port sniffing at our local network in school in our science club. We weren’t after doing some heavy illegal shit but we were all about mischief. By sniffing a port on a local switch we managed to get a librarians username and password for the school network.
We didn’t use it for anything at all until the last week of school, when we logged her in on a computer (in the library to cover tracks) and saw that she had admin rights for most things. Now, we could’ve done a lot of real heavy mischief stuff, but instead of wreaking havoc all we did was editing the school monitors that were placed here and there and broadcasting news and information in text form to add this litte tidbit att the end:
“Now hiring: Competent network administrators! We’re desperate for change. Have you got what it takes? Apply NOW!”
The network admins went fucking berserk.
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he upgrade I am hoping for end of August (but may be doubtful at the moment due to lack of funds)
FINE
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Ha ha, actually I worded that badly anyway (typing late at night). The ideal upgrade I want is out of our reach now but we have funds enough to move to a tier with faster times and extra security stuff.
One other thing to point out to Patreon contributors. They are adding sales tax from this month, they say they already do so for Europe but are adding it for some US states (it’s all a little unclear where in the FAQ). So if it goes up by 5% or 8% or whatever your local sales tax is it’s not me changing the amount, it’s the taxman cometh.
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I’ve sent you some money directly through Paypal (to https://www.paypal.me/carrierforum).
I’ve done that before too so I hope you received it. The only options on Patreon seem to be for the $2 and $5 tiers so there is no option for just a voluntary contribution, like the one million dollars I just sent you from Jerry’s bank account. Maybe something to consider?
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I got it, sincere thanks for your money and laundering Jerry’s offshore stash.
Yeah Patreon is designed only for recurring payments, you can just enter your own amount rather than $2 or $5 but it’ll take that out every month. If you are popular enough, like Amanda Palmer, some people use it as their monthly income.
So the Paypal button is for people that would rather give a one-off amount.
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Ha ha, actually I worded that badly anyway (typing late at night). The ideal upgrade I want is out of our reach now but we have funds enough to move to a tier with faster times and extra security stuff.
One other thing to point out to Patreon contributors. They are adding sales tax from this month, they say they already do so for Europe but are adding it for some US states (it’s all a little unclear where in the FAQ). So if it goes up by 5% or 8% or whatever your local sales tax is it’s not me changing the amount, it’s the taxman cometh.
How much do you need for the ideal tier? I can donate $50 toward it.
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$150 should do it but I already got a combined $40 extra donation from Tim, Martin and David (thanks guys). I’ll chip in $20 of my own money so if you do have that much to spare we’d be getting quite close.
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$150 should do it but I already got a combined $40 extra donation from Tim, Martin and David (thanks guys). I’ll chip in $20 of my own money so if you do have that much to spare we’d be getting quite close.
I just made the donation.
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{spoiler}Darth Vader is Luke’s Father{/spoiler}
But with square brackets instead of wiggly ones.
Paragraph breaks…
…don’t work.
As the spoiler tag automatically closes itself at the end of the first paragraph.
And as far as I know the spoiler tag within a paragraph will run for ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever until closed.
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test, muthafuckas
Well? Did it work?
I don’t know what you’re both doing but it isn’t working. All I see is black bars.
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I don’t know what you’re both doing but it isn’t working. All I see is black bars.
WHAT?
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While I do assume that you have already surmised what the problem is and just haven’t gotten around to fixing it. Or have decided that the problem is fine and doesn’t need fixing. What I assume is: you’ve got this, Gar! But just in case you haven’t seen this, this is shown on the dashboard:
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No, it either updates or it doesn’t. The way it works is a lot of things build on each other. WordPress is the main engine, then BBPress provides the bare bones of a message board, then there are various plugins that add features like being able to log on, emojis, attachments, thanks, the template of the board which I added to make it work on mobile devices.
So a lot of the plugins I manually upgraded to the latest versions, one of them has overridden the setting that keeps the mod forum hidden from view. I can find out which by deactivating them one at a time but since it keeps the setting that only moderators can access then I may not be arsed.
Upgrading WordPress in 99% of cases would make no difference to the board functioning because it’s like the operating system on a PC and the program works independently. However like with an OS every now and again in rare cases there’s an incompatibility that stops something working, so I’ll hold off forcing the update until the owners of the plugins have tested it.
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I posted pics on the image thread yesterday (15 hours ago?) right after Lorcan’s Chesire Cat one, but I couldn’t see my post. The main board did say I was the last one to post.
Same thing happened in the Space thread. Now I have a message that JRCarter has posted a reply, but I cant see that either.
In the Image thread I can see activity after that.
Dont know if this is a board problem or a me problem.
Edit: I can see this post, so it cant be all bad.
I guess those posts got lost, but still weird that I cant see the reply in the Space thread. -
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It’s probably my fault. Even when I know things aren’t my fault they are.
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I’m pretty confident that’s not true
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It’s happened to me before but ALL of my posts are ALWAYS trashposts so I haven’t really worried about it.
FTFY, Tim. No need to thank me.
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I assume you want it completely hidden from non-mods
That was the plan but really I don’t care that much, the mod forum now we are a smaller group is barely used and when it is there’s more chit-chat than moderation discussion. I suppose there’s scope for paranoia if you see a new post marked and imagine it’s about ‘you’ but it probably won’t be.
Once the server upgrade is done I’ll make some attempt to get it back to how it was but not if it takes up a lot of time.
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Yeah well maybe your face is always a trashpost
It’s all art.
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Yeah well maybe your face is always a trashpost
Yeah well you’re not allowed on any of my yachts!
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I just copy and paste the link
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Everything you just posted works here for me.
Must’ve been a glitch or your phone is testing your patience.
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It’s always worth adding a voice. I haven’t encountered your particular issue but I haven’t really posted many links. I’ve had a few posts vanish, most likely due to dodgy internet at times on my side, and it probably did everyone a favour.
Oh, there is one thing. How do I do the selective quote thing? Any time I’ve tried, it leaves out the poster’s name.
Also, thanks again, Gar for everything you do. Beyond appreciated.
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