New server/upgrade issues and comments

Ads might help.


A lot of us come here for our SOLE source of help. Real help.
From real people. Thanks for doing what you do... sorry.
 
what do you mean "ads might help"? It's really not clear, you might mean "advertising revenue might help Bluelight's financial position" or you might mean "it would help if something was publicised", if you mean the latter, what exactly do you think should be publicised?

edit: we have an "announcement" at the top of EADD's forum index which reads:

CURRENT PROBLEMS WITH BLUELIGHT AFTER RECENT SERVER UPGRADE

and links to this thread. If that is the sort of thing you mean, I agree.
 
I think ads would super suck. Who would want to advertise anyway? I don't think it helps BL as we position ourselves as an established, respectable outfit to have big flashing banners advertising rolling papers and insulin needles. If I'm not wrong, the current funding model is PBS-style pledge drives, and revenue generated by matching academics with our user base of people who are normally relatively difficult to find and engage in research. It's good to weigh up all possibilities, the site needs money to run, but in this case, I think that the cost to our public image and esteem of running ads would outweigh the monetary benefit. If someone with greater vision than me can imagine a way in which paid ads can work on the site, that's fantastic, but personally, I can't see that future.
 
Double post, but legit new information: I think we used to have a function whereby you'd have to confirm that you were about to lose what you'd typed if you entered anything in the Quick Reply box, but not posted it. That no longer seems to be the case.
 
I meant 'ads' in the Peruvian sense. The Greece sense. The Old Testestament sense.
Fuck. The Shakespearian sense.... you know, 'Ad hoc all from hither....' etc etc


lol, Ads in, this sight is going to SHIT, and if you're all working on a volunteer salary.

ONE fucking ad would not hurt me at all. I'd even click on it five or seven times if it helped US get back on our feet.
FUCK.


Oh wait, I would edit out 'site' but I have to hit RIGHT SOMESHIT now.
nice....
 
I think that the legal and administrative costs involved in setting things up to host ads, tout for ads, accept money for them, dole out the money and deal with tax etc. would quickly overshadow the amount of money a few adverts (let alone one) would bring in and all that effort is probably better directed in just addressing the problems as is being done right now, and you could try just being a little more patient =D
 
adze.jpg

One (1) adze, as requested. Can we move on?
 
Uh, it's not buried....wrong pic.

wrong time.

EDIT: Nice tool though, and I don't mean that that in a literal sense.
Got a machete in my garage, also a VERY nicely made pick axe.
Short, sharp. Anyone tries to touch me, hey, I might die, I might bleed, but they will be worse off the next day


Edit:
IM NOT AFRAID OF DEATH.
Death and me are good friends by now.
 
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Engage said:
I will more patient. Just smells funny...
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we've just finished migration of the board to a new server by volunteer staff who have real-world demands on their time.

we're sorry there are a few post-upgrade technical issues to work through but i think perhaps you need to take a step back and look at this from a slightly different (i.e. less personal) perspective.

what, exactly, smells funny?

alasdair
 
^ I can see it as well, this is likely related to our move to the new server. I'm going to go ahead and merge this into the official thread for that so the issue is documented in the standard place.
 
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When I try to edit my posts (after having posted them) I get the window, make my changes and then hit save and....NOTHING happens. That happens every time. What has been happening sometimes is that I cannot even post a reply. Again, I get the box (minus all editing functions and tools) write my response and then hit post. I don't get the spinning wheel that means it is loading forever--I get no response at all. Yesterday I got creative and hit the quote button, responded as if I were going to use the quote and then erased it before posting and that seemed to work fine. Any one else having these problems?
 
herbavore said:
When I try to edit my posts (after having posted them) I get the window, make my changes and then hit save and....NOTHING happens. That happens every time. What has been happening sometimes is that I cannot even post a reply. Again, I get the box (minus all editing functions and tools) write my response and then hit post. I don't get the spinning wheel that means it is loading forever--I get no response at all. Yesterday I got creative and hit the quote button, responded as if I were going to use the quote and then erased it before posting and that seemed to work fine. Any one else having these problems?
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Yes..

And I think it might have been mentioned but in case not, if you will right click on the edit or quote button and then click on "open in new tab" then these buttons will function in the new tab window...
 
Yeah the [VIDEO] code is off, it says so at the bottom of the page. Yes, I think someone probably has brought up the deleting posts thing.
 
babylonboy said:
I think ads would super suck. Who would want to advertise anyway? I don't think it helps BL as we position ourselves as an established, respectable outfit to have big flashing banners advertising rolling papers and insulin needles. If I'm not wrong, the current funding model is PBS-style pledge drives, and revenue generated by matching academics with our user base of people who are normally relatively difficult to find and engage in research. It's good to weigh up all possibilities, the site needs money to run, but in this case, I think that the cost to our public image and esteem of running ads would outweigh the monetary benefit. If someone with greater vision than me can imagine a way in which paid ads can work on the site, that's fantastic, but personally, I can't see that future.
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Hear hear!!
On a side note, the bluelight Gods have fixed my earlier issue so...thanks guys(girls)!.
 
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