Technicaly, if this site would advertise for those devices, i wouldnt be anoyed by it. Most of the advertisement complaints do come from the very intrusive kind that make you either wait or force you to click something away.
The main reason they dont is that a lot of the content here is deemed a piracy risk, no company these days want to risk getting issues from that. Especialy if they are US based. Yet if they would advertise each other, its a quite big boost in sale capabilities.
However, 1 downside that often happens when sites get more popular is that you also attract the wrong people. Niche sites have a major advantage as most users have a very similar interest. More users often causes problems here since there are always a few that will very loudly complain about the ‘other group’. Even now you have the issue that some dont like the anime 2min scripts, yet some only go on this site for those scripts.
Its a hard balancing act that often requires more moderators to handle. And as reddit also has proven, this sometimes causes users to get that ‘feeling of power’. A few bad moderators can quickly kill a site. Which means more time needs to be spent here.
Appreciate all the effort you guys are putting in! It’s awesome to see you guys tackling these issues head-on, and it sounds like the changes will really help the site run smoother. Excited to see where things go from here—keep up the great work!
Length tags were implemented to help separate the short scripts from the longer ones, and even though there are still a lot of people who aren’t using them, it has been a big help. At least for those of us who care.
Regarding piracy, it’s kind of a 50/50 as it stands. If a pirated video gets posted on r34 or pornhub, it will eventually get removed and any links posted here to those pirated works will die as well. The only real risk is from people uploading stuff to MEGA, etc., and even that can get removed if flagged. Doesn’t really matter to me in the grand scheme of things though, because people will always find a way to get their hands on content, one way or another.
It is kinda weird to me though, because a lot of popular scripters have their own advertisements to hardware in every one of their topics, and I assume they get compensated for it, so…
Your script while it might point to an illegal video, still has an advertisement benefit for the video maker. Especialy on platforms like PH.
During the time the video was available, the script might get reviews of it being great, and maybe cause someone to buy it on the legal site. And even without that, advertisements are also a thing. Your script can cause extra views.
And this is only a side effect, since even without video, your script still functions. The video can improve immersion, but without it, it does still do the job. This means marketing for devices is completly fine.
There is also a loophole in many countries that content ‘describing’ other content is legal to be made. For example a review or summary. Spoilers for a movie are again something they just cannot copyright.
And a script is a description of such video following a certain action mostly. But with freedom of scripters to do it in their own way.
Trying to sue a site which has such content as primary content is generaly a bad idea. There will be a lot of lawyers eager to defend against such big company then as even though due to ‘money spam’ defending can be harder, if you win, your name gets a huge boost.
Even if we do sometimes link to illegal content. Hell, even reddit cant reliably monitor such stuff, as if we are strict, most memes use a picture of a movie (which is copyrighted!). Try to take that down… you wont, beyonce knows this all to well.
I like the idea, but in my opinion the implementation is not correct - I would make different sections for scripts - short clips/animation, full clips and long/movies. So I don’t put those tags, but I also have “full” videos - 20-120 minutes.
Thats because of a mistake i made, the reason i quoted it and the text i did type, at some point i reorganized my post but removed that section.
But in short: they do it because some of them because of the work they did, did get some special discount codes, and potentialy using those even gives little bit of money to them. Its a very common early adopter thing companies do.
I’m actually kind of surprised at how popular the site is. Kind of. I know it’s the only site for this niche thing so it makes sense everyone within the niche would flock here but damn, 180k daily ain’t nuthin’ to scoff at.
I was thinking a bit about this part, and i think it might help if a lot of the content is delivered through a cdn server. These are often the servers that need to handle bandwidth, and while it might not be alot, still generates overhead that logic wise for the site shouldnt matter much.
Using a CDN server also allows fast changing in case of heavy load when issues happen. It means you technicaly dont even need to host this on the same network (in most cases you still keep it on the same network because its cheaper). And lets say the traffic realy gets too much for 1 cdn server, you can add a 2nd one and have users split on which cdn gets served to them.
It might in some cases result in a desync where 1 server lacks a file. And sadly, this often cant be efficiently handled (you cant realy make the servers sync upon detecting a missing file, as that just means its a dos vector that can target both servers). But this could be handled by making the main server still serve the content for the first few minutes until it verified all cdns have their content applied.
I just dont know if discourse does allow such systems to exist.
But splitting the forum and files to 2 diffirent servers allows each server to be optimized for serving that specific content.
On the technical side, i suppose, improved search and filter functions wouldn’t hurt. Maybe? That way i can not sift through pages of vids and scripts under 5 min long.
