The "Top Monthly Reaction" scoreboard has been broken for months and should be taken down until fixed.

[Ropey]

Just noticed Fauns score has dropped to 900 something, it was like 1092 the other day.

Faun's slide from ~1092 to 900s?

Typical delayed cleanup ripple.

 

[Delldude]

I guess what bdtex is saying is Faun and Lakhota have old posts that are generating tons of new reactions.

How would it drop then?

 

[Delldude]

Faun's slide from ~1092 to 900s?

Typical delayed cleanup ripple.

I just happened to notice with it being a topic.

You mentioned Forum Foundry, do you have any idea what a server upgrade would run and is it monthly or what?

 

[Ropey]

I just happened to notice with it being a topic.

It ran pretty well back when I was donating.

However, I stopped donating when FF did nothing about coyote's rampant anti-Semitism. Members running around with nazi avatars, etc. Leftist mods banning members for the **** of it.

Duke knows all about that, yet nothing was done to fix it.

You mentioned Forum Foundry, do you have any idea what a server upgrade would run and is it monthly or what?

The server we are now on uses Shared Hosting and the costs for such sharing of a server at the base level?

Shared hosting - Often too slow/unreliable for a busy forum. Costs: $25/month, but not recommended. (Where we are...imho.)

VPS hosting is the sweet spot for this small forum, and it would not cost FF more than ~75 - 100$/month.

This shows what the FF think of this forum which is another reason why I refuse to donate anymore.

 

[Delldude]

It ran pretty well back when I was donating.

However, I stopped donating when FF did nothing about coyote's rampant anti-Semitism. Members running around with nazi avatars, etc. Leftist mods banning members for the **** of it.

Duke knows all about that, yet nothing was done to fix it.



The server we are now on uses Shared Hosting and the costs for such sharing of a server at the base level? ~25-50$/month.

Shared hosting - Often too slow/unreliable for a busy forum. Costs: $3–$15/month, but not recommended. (Where we are...imho.)

VPS hosting is the sweet spot for this small forum, and it would not cost FF more than ~75 - 100$/month.

This shows what the FF think of this forum which is another reason why I refuse to donate anymore.

I came here late 2014, did some digging and found the people who owned this site at the time owned a whole bunch of others and I mean a whole bunch. Somewhere down the road, they sold off some or most of the sites, not totally sure, but they must have been very successful.
Then you mentioned the FF thing and it dawned on me, I bet the same people who created all those sites also had their own server set up and it wouldn't surprise me if it's FF.

So I'll sell you a site with a server package.......I wouldn't be surprised at all.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Ropey]

I came here late 2014, did some digging and found the people who owned this site at the time owned a whole bunch of others and I mean a whole bunch. Somewhere down the road, they sold off some or most of the sites, not totally sure, but they must have been very successful.
Then you mentioned the FF thing and it dawned on me, I bet the same people who created all those sites also had their own server set up and it wouldn't surprise me if it's FF.

So I'll sell you a site with a server package.......I wouldn't be surprised at all.

Thanks for the info.

They don't want to sell it. Back when it was a going concern, there were many fights from insiders here trying to buy the forum so that they could control the narrative.

That's one thing I'll give FF for nothing. They are principled. They could have sold this piece of bunk for good money and wouldn't because ... well they didn't want partisans to gain control of the forum like when gunny and del were running the game.

And they did take the time to clean up all that bullshit. They even sent a FF admin here to clean it up.

cereal_killer

 

[Delldude]

And they did take the time to clean up all that bullshit. They even sent a FF admin here to clean it up.

I frequent an air travel site, when you'd run down who owned the website, it was the same names as USMB.....and a bunch of other sites. They went through a bunch of different Admins or owners as we were told, on the air travel site, in fact some of the old admins names from there are the same still listed here. They went from vBulletin to Xenforo at the same time too.
Now if I run down who owns either of these two, it comes out different than before. It used to list specific names, now it's kind of generic. It was owned by concerns between the West coast and Texas. It got out of hand there too, with the partisan BS. The site came close to collapsing. It was dominated by the travel industry, pilots, FAs, etc. Admin came in and fired the entire staff, changed or modified most of the rules. It was really cooking during the bankruptcies in the industry and during Obama's election. Obama's election and the partisan staff was what almost collapsed the site. With all that gone now the place is dead.

 

[Ropey]

With all that gone now the place is dead.

In this new day of social media, attrition is the foe of the forum, just like the forum was the foe of the BBS.

Where I started out. Using BBs' from UBC to connect to other universities billboards and discuss.

It's now a different time, and we are in the beginnings of that radical change.

 

[bdtex]

How would it drop then?

It's a rolling average. Where it says "Monthly", it's not a calendar month.

 

[MarathonMike]

It's a rolling average. Where it says "Monthly", it's not a calendar month.

Does it only count reactions: "Like" "Funny" "Disagree" etc or does it count more than that?

 

[bdtex]

Does it only count reactions: "Like" "Funny" "Disagree" etc

Yes, as far as I know.