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State of BBW-Chan End of March
LtBarclay##vOgLqq
Thu 28 Mar 2024 21:22:51
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Hey all, probably about time I check in. So, for two months now, we have paid our bills with the generous donation we received in October of last year. Once again, thanks to the anon who did that.
As for the mod situation. Semi-recently, an older mod who took a long break was re-instated, and had incorrectly done a few things. Namely, accidental permabans for minor infractions based on not correctly inputting the date codes, and moderating discussion here on /gen/.As of today all those accidental permabans should be lifted, and that mod *should* no longer be moderating /gen/ as hard for comments. That said, with reduced modding of general comments, it damn sure looks like /gen/ is often derailed by schizoid posts, politic posts, and other stupid things. That's a shame and it's always hard to strike a good balance modding a place like /gen/.
Now, as for a small update on possibly re-instating the array. The array went through many forms, but in today's day and age, I have to say, it could really only exist in it's old form again: IRC. I couldn't make it interact with the board again, that's impossible with the Captchas we now have. So, with that said, it needs to be re-coded, specifically, it's file host intermediary. It exclusively used wetransfer, but it appears wetransfer has fallen out of favor and now gofile is preferred. Is that the general consensus? That's easily changed.
The other part is, while the array uses far, far less resources than the site, it still needs to make some amount of money back, somehow. This is a tricky situation because it immediately becomes scummy: you're paying a third party, who already received that model's work for free, to give you that content. We tried many ways to fund the array, and none ever worked. So, something creative would have to come up on that front. Something like, idk, say the array has a list of crypto donation addresses, if any one receives any donation worth more than a dollar, the array opens for everyone for 24 hours, after which, it closes down again until at least another dollar comes in, that sort of thing. That way, it's slightly less scummy: you're not paying for pirated content directly, you're just funding and opening the library for everyone and everyone gets a 24 hour ticket to browse and download.
Anyway, if there's anything you'd like to bring up that got lost in the last thread, let me know.
As for the mod situation. Semi-recently, an older mod who took a long break was re-instated, and had incorrectly done a few things. Namely, accidental permabans for minor infractions based on not correctly inputting the date codes, and moderating discussion here on /gen/.As of today all those accidental permabans should be lifted, and that mod *should* no longer be moderating /gen/ as hard for comments. That said, with reduced modding of general comments, it damn sure looks like /gen/ is often derailed by schizoid posts, politic posts, and other stupid things. That's a shame and it's always hard to strike a good balance modding a place like /gen/.
Now, as for a small update on possibly re-instating the array. The array went through many forms, but in today's day and age, I have to say, it could really only exist in it's old form again: IRC. I couldn't make it interact with the board again, that's impossible with the Captchas we now have. So, with that said, it needs to be re-coded, specifically, it's file host intermediary. It exclusively used wetransfer, but it appears wetransfer has fallen out of favor and now gofile is preferred. Is that the general consensus? That's easily changed.
The other part is, while the array uses far, far less resources than the site, it still needs to make some amount of money back, somehow. This is a tricky situation because it immediately becomes scummy: you're paying a third party, who already received that model's work for free, to give you that content. We tried many ways to fund the array, and none ever worked. So, something creative would have to come up on that front. Something like, idk, say the array has a list of crypto donation addresses, if any one receives any donation worth more than a dollar, the array opens for everyone for 24 hours, after which, it closes down again until at least another dollar comes in, that sort of thing. That way, it's slightly less scummy: you're not paying for pirated content directly, you're just funding and opening the library for everyone and everyone gets a 24 hour ticket to browse and download.
Anyway, if there's anything you'd like to bring up that got lost in the last thread, let me know.