I’m confused about what any of this has to do with what you quoted? It feels like you missed my point entirely.
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.
Fair and softly goes far - maybe do both tags and sections?
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.
Patreon-ized, easy sub and i shouldve done it years ago. wish i could give $100/month.
I suggest y’all do the same, its a great community so let’s grow this beast.
no ads forever 
ride or die,
Y_D 
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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.
I am thinking about changes we can make to the patreon. Making it easier to donate, having more tiers, etc.
The server IS using a CDN.
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so uh, that whole loli/shota ban can be reverted too right?
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.
Thats the plan
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I dont develop discourse its an open source app. You can make a pull request or a feature request in their git repo
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