How you advise gookmoot keep Sup Forums afloat?

How you advise gookmoot keep Sup Forums afloat?
server options, costs, etc

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Sup Forums pass lets you have a custom signature.

Sup Forums pass gives access to a "Sup Forums pass only board". Call it /sn/, for "snob".

Reduce image size for non-wallpaper boards.

if there were obvious operational costs that could be cut, and hiroshima hadn't seen and taken them, then this would be a worthwhile thread. but he ran another site like Sup Forums before this one, so i doubt very much that he's as naive as you are, OP.

Sup Forums's users are just not high value. the cost to advertise here is insanely low. try to imagine the quality of people on Sup Forums that neither have a pass (removing ads) nor use an ad blocker. these have got to be low functioning autistic kids. no advertiser wants these people as customers.

so there's just not enough money coming in from ad revenue. hiroshima could charge an annual fee from everyone, but then it would lose a lot of users. especially the cheaper, poorer, and younger ones.

so, you know, i'm all for it. i think that's all we need to do.

Sup Forums pass board is

Ah. My bad.

Put a fucking bullet in his ass. He is history. This place is done. Hang your cap.

remove images
it's time for the final destination

to be honest
he should threaten to delete it unless a donation goal is reached which would allow the site to run for x years
dunno if we even cough up in that kind of situation

this is the only solution, the final solution. only /wsg/ needs images, the faggots who jerk off to shitty weeb porn can go to pornhub. cut all the porn boards and shit like the travel board nobody goes to.

He should get a life insurance and then kys himself

After checking it out, /vip/ sucks. I suggest the following:

-Mods or GNU/moot himself should post or reply frequently on that board
-There should be some /vip/-only features. Something cool and snobby. Maybe they can have forum-style games (like Mafia) that are weekly and official, with mods and GNU/moot joining. Then you can have extra points depending on how long you have been a paying Sup Forums snob.

Sup Forums need to lower costs and increase revenue. Sup Forums pass is a source, but it does not provide much incentive to the average user.

Sell it to someone who can read and respond in coherent English.

Regular old donation system akin to patreon etc w/ some transparency.

Only reason he doesn't do it is because he wants to make money w/ Sup Forums not break even or keep Sup Forums alive.

everyone says gookmoot
why not just goot

If he's exhausted all technical debt, maybe make all users use webm/ webp and pass users are free to use what they want.

Don't.
I WANT TO BE FREE!

i prefer hiroshimoot

Install Gentoo

feels too long in my opinion

Nagasaki is the correct choice.

Ask the owner of warosu.
>believing Sup Forums have any issues with file hosting, still the shittiest restrictions of all

- Remove server-side rendering
- Rewrite the REST backend in Go, Rust or C++
- Move backend to microservices with dynamic scaling
- Ask FBI/CIA to provide storage if they want archiving.

i will only post advice if i'm actually posting directly to the real gookmoot

Run it on load balanced VPS accounts. 5 times more bandwidth than he's averaging on OVH is $2000 a month while he's claiming he pays around 90k. If you can't make 1 penny per user just give up.

>- Rewrite the REST backend in Go, Rust or C++
actually a good idea as this will reduce server load, reducing cpu cycles, reducing cost

Sup Forums will save so much money that he'll be paid as a business strategy consultant to come speak at other firms telling them how he made this site save money, and they will want to hire their own devs. it's a win win.

developers win because we get a job. gookmoot wins because he starts to make money, other companies win because they save money after we make their code bettr

Introduce a 1mb limit on uploads. This would instantly reduce traffic substantially with zero effect on the majority of boards.

you don't know that you aren't

yeah, a 3mb image file is pretty ridiculous

replace every board with an irc channel

I f you want to see this start a crowdfounding as hiromoot don't have any ability aside begging for donuts. I found this more lame than fapping on webcam.

Add dumb paid only features:
-signatures
-forced full size images
-general attention whoring addons

If it doesn't turn a profit within two months sell it to the Clinton Foundation or some and let it rot.

>-signatures
doesn't really gel with a place with such a rich anonymous heritage and culture

Is this image a lie then?

there are cheaper ways to skirt the system. like they could take the image, program something to do a reverse image search, and then simply link to any 100% match they find instead. basically defer the cost to any existing instance of the image in question (which would be the case for lots of images).

another alternative could be to host stuff on imgur or whatever sites allow NSFW uploads. again keep a copy on the server just in case, but let someone else deal with the hosting fees.

i have a weird proposition though: what about a cooperatively owned Sup Forums?

i think it'd be interesting if someone made a community Sup Forums thing where people could claim a board (e.g. /hw/) and make that the hardware tech board for soldering and other shit like that, and run it as their own thing as long as it follows the global rules. maybe claiming a board would have to involve payment or something, just like buying a domain, to prevent board squatting.

it would basically be a federated version of Sup Forums with constituent states. maybe each board would have to pay up depending on how many posts/page views they get (and they could be responsible for figuring out how to raise that money — either requiring people to pay for access or soliciting donations or whatever).

just a thought. clearly the status quo isn't working, but there are a lot of people invested in making this work, so it could be worth it to try something unconventional.

They really need to figure out how to monetize the porn boards. Make them good and maybe introduce sponsored content.

If people made /s/ or one of the weeaboo boards one of their regular jack off stops, then it would pay off I think. Seriously, there are so many horny bastards already coming here. Make the porn worthwhile and everyone benefits.

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>i think it'd be interesting if someone made a community Sup Forums thing where people could claim a board (e.g. /hw/) and make that the hardware tech board for soldering and other shit like that, and run it as their own thing as long as it follows the global rules.
that's ribbit. you're describing ribbit.

I don't know what I would do without this place

Remove the archive,

TAKE ONE OF THE PEOPLE TRYING TO OFFER YOU LITERALLY MILLIONS MONEY HOLY FUCK IT'S SO GODDAMN SIMPLE, REMOVE GIF, REMOVE MLP, THE OPTIONS ARE ENDLESS.

The passing giving you access to a game is a good idea.

in the most abstract sense possible, sure, but that's like saying
>website
>with different topics
that's wikipedia. you're describing wikipedia.

if you think Sup Forums's culture would change because of the way the boards are paid for, you're an idiot.

Daily Reminder

Just sell it Shekreli, the Japanese Jew is doing to Sup Forums what he did to 2ch. We were warned.

Having Shekreli own it would be even more hilarious to read about what the media say about Sup Forums.

4chin isn't in danger of sinking, and gookmoot is jewing us by leveraging on our fear to lose this site

the shiek will probally be in prison in a few months

>actually a good idea as this will reduce server load, reducing cpu cycles, reducing cost

99% of this site is cached pages built by PHP scripts that run at set intervals. For however slow those are I doubt better board software is going to make it any cheaper to run.

DELET

>neither have a pass (removing ads) nor use an ad blocker
There are probably the more normal, not normie, but normal, people on the site.

See blog.Sup Forums.org/post/152411853897/Sup Forums-bandwidth-was-3pb-last-month-Sup Forums-doesnt
He says with AWS that's $90k a month, and in two weeks he got $2.5k in donations.

Here's a stupid fucking idea, are you listening Hiro?
Go full SA and charge, I dunno, $2 a month for a Sup Forums account.
All the features of a pass, but only people who pay the subscription can post images.
I'd pay in a heartbeat, and so would fucking everyone else. 45k users would easily cover server costs.

Everyone who knows anything about web hosting knows that AWS is ludicrously expensive.

1% x the number of posts per day = a large number

>He says with AWS that's $90k a month, and in two weeks he got $2.5k in donations.
so he just needs 36 more weeks of donations to cover one month of hosting!

>only 2.5k
Man. I've been buying passes forever.

Instead of removing the ability to post images completely, instead he just should drastically lower the limit unless you pay.

So down to 1mb or something.

I'm wondering what the actual number he's paying might be.

>What is best financially
Sell data to NSA

If I was goot, Id just sell more features

3PB/month is 10Gbps. A 100Mbps vps is $3.50. $350 gets you 10Gbps unlimited bandwidth. Multiply by some number like 5 to compensate for peak usage being higher than average and you get less than $2000 a month. 200k users reported on the front page makes that 1 cent per user-month.

Hirocucky could limit photos to 1MB and remove support for all files but JPEG and PNG. Imo it would be reasonable.

Fuck that, I'd wager the majority of images here are

I am a retard what the fuck userdata is he even selling? That I have no money or social life and like 2d titty girls? Who would pay money to know that?

Unfortunately, it's closer to the truth than you think it is.

While it provides a path to sustainibility, there is no denying that culture will change also. Mandating community federation only or optionally defeats the purpose of an anonymous imageboard. Sup Forums's "community" was always very loose because of its roots.

There is waste somewhere.

I really think that Sup Forums as an imageboard should not be 3 PBs. Imgur, an image hosting site, reached over 4 PBs in 2012. And there is no logical explanation that Sup Forums's traffic and image/video proportion even is close to imgur's in 2012.

>Who would pay money to know that?
Those that produce 2D titted girls

>Sup Forums pass is a source, but it does not provide much incentive to the average user.
not only that, it undermines the core principle of this site

more and more advertisers jumping ship and more and more people getting adblock anyway

I suspect in 5-10 years, maybe sooner, 4chinz will be ded or charity run

There was 731GB of hosted content last time I checked the front page. Each $3.50 VPS comes with 10GB of SSD speed storage. Latest CentOS is

Hiro is not having financial problems with keeping Sup Forums up. This gook did the same shit from 2ch. Scammed then inyo a pass and changed rules to kake it impossible to use without a pass, banned pass users regularly to get more pass money and ran it into the ground

I have a pass and unless I'm blind then there's no /vip/

it seems that I'm really blind
since fucking when does this shit exist? and why the fuck wasn't it advertised properly?

A 16 year old ran this website for 12 years, without a single problem.

This is one shady faggot.
Dont do anything, let it fail.

what data we have here?

If you weren't a mobile faggot, you'd see the board addition is displayed in the same place its always been.

He should sell dubs and gets under the table. Im serious too. These posts are cancer but at least we won't have a ton of faildubs and fail gets, and there won't be dubspamming threads anymore.

Chairman hiroyuki always gets me.

Sell it

I wish I saved the thread where the guy said he could host it from his home Internet with an old switch and a rack server on his 'gigabit' residential connection

Intel Atom 1U half depth server box.
ZFS.
Combination of 2x SSD and 2x10TB, de-dupe & compressed
BSD UNIX.
Cheap colocation. $35 per month.
Script to re-encode all jpegs to shittiest quality to save bandwidth.
Job done.

Add support for webp and then change the maximum image size for most boards to 500 KB

Turn Sup Forums into a private, invite-only site (yet keep anonymous posting).

moot claimed he had all the hardware for Sup Forums, and hiro only talks about the bandwidth.

I made some very rough math, and reached to the 10Gb/s connection to handle all Sup Forums movement.

For someone with experience in hosting and bandwidth, how much does it costs in the US?

10Gb/s CIR is megabux.

I have a pass, but that board is too slow and directionless to warrant posting to it, even more directionless than /s4s/.

Sell to Disney and retire in a tropical island.

Rip in piece

>Intel Atom 1U half depth server box.
>ZFS.
>Script to re-encode all jpegs to shittiest quality to save bandwidth.
You're kidding right? You'd be dedicating pretty much every resource you have to everything that isn't serving HTTP requests.

Pro tip. If you become rich, don't move to a small tropical island that only fits your property. It fucking sucks and newly rich people always regret it. Go to a large island like in Hawaii.

mook doesn't listen. there has been many good suggestions that he simply ignores.
don't waste your time

Hiroyuki should start by making the real monthly operating costs public so we can call him out on his bullshit.

Only allow webp and webm uploads. Embed imgur and others and ban jpg png and gifs.

just kill this shitty website

this new administration looks fishy as fuck

My country ISP got banned for abuse and spam. Nice coincidence that Sup Forums passes are offer with a little discount and donations are up.

Sound like a pyramid scheme but let's see what happens in the future. Moot was dumb and a shitty admin but he loved this site. I doubt Hiroshima like it as him.

thank you user, that just confirmed my suspicions

It was a nice ride gentlemen. Jokes aside, I give Sup Forums a few more years before dying or turning into something not 4chanish anymore.

Which country?

Peru

inb4 "you deserve it faggot"

free my nigga snacks

and 2x chan

If there really is a financial problem due to traffic, then requiring some type of membership to even view images, not post, would be a solution; shitty, but it would address the alleged problem.