I like "Buffiliates" as a term, and think a link from the left nav to such a page would be a nicely unobtrusive thing.
ita, will send.
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Michele T. - Aug 20, 2003 8:11:01 am PDT #4681 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Lee - Aug 20, 2003 11:11:33 am PDT #4682 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I'm getting "page can not be displayed" notices, first when I tried to get into Natter, and then when I tried to get to the board as a whole.
Jim - Aug 20, 2003 11:14:17 am PDT #4683 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
it's a small point, but i spend a reasonable amount with Amazon.co.uk, so an affiliate link to that would create revenue.
Kristen - Aug 20, 2003 12:19:16 pm PDT #4684 of 10000
Ooohhhh it's a static quote. Look at the pretty.
I [heart] ita.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2003 12:21:53 pm PDT #4685 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Who said we hated Spike, huh? Huh?
This'll larn 'em.
DXMachina - Aug 20, 2003 12:55:47 pm PDT #4686 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
How long do you think it will be before someone notices and mentions that the random quote generator seems to be broken? :)
Allyson - Aug 20, 2003 12:59:51 pm PDT #4687 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I bet it will be Cindy, within the hour. Starting now.
Wolfram - Aug 20, 2003 1:06:46 pm PDT #4688 of 10000
Visilurking
If I hadn't read the last few posts, I'd have probably noticed it sometime in 2004.
Cindy - Aug 20, 2003 1:26:05 pm PDT #4689 of 10000
Nobody
I bet it will be Cindy, within the hour. Starting now.
Yeah, except I suggested we shut it off now.
Kristen - Aug 20, 2003 1:47:26 pm PDT #4690 of 10000
Cross-posted with Bureaucracy:
With all this talk of dedicated hosting, I feel like I should explain something about that option. Call it a warning or a disclaimer or whatever. A dedicated server may not necessarily be the best solution for us and it certainly won't solve all our problems.
Yes, when all is said and done, we may very well end up needing a dedicated server. But people should be aware that the kind of dedicated server we will be able to afford, as a community, will be significantly less powerful than the server we are residing on currently.
The server that we were on before? The one that we slowed to a crawl before they suspended us? That was probably more powerful than what we'd end up on with our own dedicated server.
Of course, there are some upsides to dedicated. The most obvious is that, no matter how much we talk, no one can boot us. Another is that while we have fewer resources at our disposal, we don't have to share those resources with anyone. But connections that aren't closing will bog us down and any server sluggish and slow, dedicated or otherwise.
I sense that some of you are impatient and want to just find a solution already but please keep in mind that, no matter where we end up residing, debugging the code and finding ways to streamline operations is essential to the future health of this board.
Just something to keep in mind.