Alright Sup Forums, Hiro finally acknowledged the issue with the captcha...

Alright Sup Forums, Hiro finally acknowledged the issue with the captcha. Basically nothing can really be done because getting a different captcha system would jack up the server costs even more, and unfortunately Google's shitty system saves money. So how exactly can Hiro reduce the server costs for Sup Forums? The only solution I can see is the deletion of certain big boards like /soc/ for instance, but what are your ideas?

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sweetcaptcha.com/
textcaptcha.com/
catalog.neet.tv/stats.html
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just use any of the other captcha services

reCaptcha sends messages to the google servers back and forth and asks Google to do the job of verifying if you're a bot or not.(client side )
Most of the suggestions given so far run on your own server and ask for your own servers to decide if you're a bot.(server side)

Hiro doesn't want the server to be strained proccessing 9 billion and 1 posts every day since that would drive up the price of running the website and detract from his coke addicition

this. use 10 different captchas, it will confuse the botnet

>deletion of certain big boards like /soc/ for instance
>/Soc/

Bro, /soc/ serves a vital purpose were you around before that board was started?

You got any better ideas?

Let me guess, "muh containment board"?

Instead of wasting resources for special boards to contain undesirable behavior, why not just make and enforce rules against it?

What's the postrate on Sup Forums?
Someone here just has to build a captcha system that can accept that many requests per minute and offer it to hiro.

you could also stop abusing the botnet captcha and only show it once per day or hour instead. 8ch has their own captcha and it seems to work for them so why would it be so hard to do it here?

because nobody wants to police regular boards 24/7, it's hard as it is already

there are plenty of other captcha services, I think

We should just get rid of Sup Forums because Sup Forums is redundant due to all the other boards about anime and porn

>me don understan engrishu

or just redirect all those dead boards to Sup Forums

>because nobody wants to police regular boards 24/7, it's hard as it is already
But is maintaining a whole bunch of extra boards any easier or less costly?

yeah, let them be retards there, except for the obvious illegal stuff like CP

Why does he still fake the fake english?
Do newfags still fall for it, or does he get a laugh out of it?

But they're retards everywhere

it's not fun if you're not into it, imagine someone derailing Sup Forums, talking about gadgets, video cards and windows, it'd be awful........

I's not just posting, but reporting also relies on captcha. It's enough of a PITA to report things as is with the cool-down timer. Yet, the sorry state of many boards still gets blamed solely on the users for not reporting things. How bad are things going to get when even more people just don't bother to report stuff?

>AMD BTFO
>WHEN WILL INTEL RECOVER
>wojak with some fanboy hat
>smug facebook frog
wow the technology

One way to reduce costs could be if some boards allowed the creation of threads without requiring an OP image. I know that sounds counter-intiuitive for an image board, but it might encourage people to post an image only when they really need to, instead of the "pic unrelated" culture we have today. How much storage and bandwidth is being pissed away with ebin maymays, reaction pics, and other off-topic images? I really am curious how much of an impact on storage/bandwidth images have.

This. 8ch captcha once per day. Obviously Sup Forums has many more users and would be targeted by more spambots so it could be like once per hour or something. But still MUCH better than recaptcha for every fucking post.

I'll create a bot to view max size webms over and over again for maximum bandwidth usage.

This. Decreasing the number of captchas per day, and turning it into an textboard (with optional image) is a good idea. Most replies don't have images anyways, so what's the big deal?
Not having unrelated images is also a plus, people would focus more on the actual post.

Fuck off newfag

you don't fit in very well reddit
you should fuck off or try harder

may help grez911.github.io/captcha.html

Honestly, the idea of offing a board like /soc/ wouldn't bother me at all. I've probably visited the board only a handful of times and imo the board itself kind of defeats the purpose of having an anonymous platform.

yeah and we should get rid of [s4s] because their shitposting violates rule 6
but I bet you use [s4s], faget

I like this idea. But if there is one weak one bots will just use that one, even if it means refreshing a bunch to get it (which it probably wouldn't).

just have a client side captcha

what could possible go wrong

instead of just decreasing the amount of captchas per day, you could also make it random: after doing a captcha, theres a chance another will come up. for each post a "dice" is rolled and you may or may not have to solve the captcha. the chance of a captcha showing up increases with consecutive non-captcha posts until it reaches 100%. if a captcha comes up in one of those rolls the chances go down again

Imageboards were a mistake.

Textboard revival when?

/prog/ revival?

No, we should get rid of /s4s/ because it's retarded. Also, if it eases some of the financial burden of the site as well, then that's a plus too.

fortune is fucken mess lol

what if, okay bare with me, what if, okay man, you ready? what if... wait for it, what if, what if, just calm down
what if, okay last warning
what if, hiro is full of shit
he bought a hobbyist website for millions of dollars and is struggling to turn a profit
wow wouldn't that be fucking whack

some non google captchas
solvemedia.com/publishers/captcha-type-in
sweetcaptcha.com/
textcaptcha.com/

>The only solution I can see is the deletion of certain big boards like /soc/ for instance, but what are your ideas?

People use more than one board
Deleting the boards and content that bring people to the website is a really stupid idea

how is OP this dumb?

That jewt managed to saddle that conman with this shithole will always be hilarious to me.

OP drinks the Japanese koolaide. look at him arguing in this thread. he is very new to Sup Forums.

the more and faster you post, the more captchas you get

casual users are barely impacted
spammers and shills aren't impacted at all because they'll just cycle IP's
but the hardcore Sup Forums autists are impacted most

wait no this doesn't work either

damnit

Some rich tech user needs to pay for a captcha server

Yes. Whack.

>millions
100k maybe
probably less than 50k

solve media is garbage.
i'd rather stick with recaptcha desu because i never get captchas

didn't snacks say 4 million?

yeah that's your thesis and my point. strange that is. you and hiro have unfortunate expectations for Sup Forums.

While it's plausible that he's struggling to turn a profit, I don't think that's the case. I think Sup Forums has a net positive cashflow, just not a very big one.

Before 2016 when Sup Forums's popularity exploded with the election, some aussie cunt got into an admin account and discovered how many active Sup Forums passes there were. I think it was on the order of $250,000 a year coming in from those passes.

Moot also said the website was financially stable before passing it over to Hiro.

by profit I didn't mean the pocket change this place floats on, I mean, for the scale and traffic, this place doesn't get a lot of money and hiro doesn't like that.

>oy vavoy the goyim don't like our botnet captcha
>i know, i'll just blame it on the low profit boogeyman and it will shut them right up

Merge /hc/ and /gif/ and just call it /porn/

Merge /h/ and /d/

Delete /bant/ and move off topic Sup Forums threads to Sup Forums instead

explain to me how merging two existing sources of traffic into a single source, cuts down the traffic?

Half the thread limit

usernames and accounts. we forum now

>GastheKikes1488
>sorry that username is already taken
>GastheKikes1488_1
>sorry that username is already taken
>etc

Just delete Sup Forums so I can finally move on

I'm fucking quitting Sup Forums if that happens

Delete Sup Forums, /soc/, /s4s/
Ban phoneposters

I don't think my expectations are the same as Hiros expectations. I only stated that if a board disappeared that I didn't frequent I wouldn't be bent out of shape about it. He saves some money and I don't lose anything of any importance.

>He saves some money

How?

>Ban phoneposters
this

Newfag

who started this this idea that suddenly people stop existing if you take their board away

I bought a Sup Forums pass because google captchas make me rage

Honestly can we fucking delete Sup Forums

People say "It was always shit" but it's literally just the worst porn board on the site now and serves no "shitposting" purpose that /s4s/ doesn't serve

>paying to shitpost
>supporting other shitposters
do you have a BLACKED subscription too?

I was going by the assumption that OP made by making the statement that the deletion of certain big boards would lower cost...Otherwise the discussion seems to be on altering the captchas which I would be okay with as well simply because the captchas suck.

I don't know but I don't subscribe to that idea.

You can post with a vpn with Sup Forums pass to. I dont shitpost on my public ip like a nigger like you do

remove /lgbt/because those fags cant contain themselves and shit all over Sup Forums and /gif/

also remove /bant/ /biz/ because one was a stupid idea that didnt reduce traffic of shitposting on Sup Forums and the other consists of people larping that they have a job

delete or merge /cm/ /lgbt/ /hm/

delete or merge /mlp/ /jp/

delete /vp/

merge Sup Forums /c/

merge /w/ /wg/
merge /d/ /e/ /u/ /y/

merge Sup Forums /vg/ /vr/

I have a feeling the captcha was modified to return more false negatives to force people to buy passes from frustration

if hiro wants to increase his profit margin, reducing filesize and image count limits is a much better idea than cutting boards
people will be pissed either way, but hey

this is because they made lgbt fucking blue. those hypersexual gay cunts can't help themselves and they end up shitting out a hundred gay tranny threads

>gook deletes Sup Forums
>the rest of the site is flooded by normalfags

If Sup Forums still accounts for the majority of the sites traffic, I don't believe you'd have to worry about that.

like giving your name to the admin jew is any better

>Ban phoneposters
at least banned from making new threads, what a disaster they've been

They know your name by googling your ip lmao

HAHAHAHA I hope so

Make Sup Forums access a purely subscription service.

Has any user gathered data on every boards average post per hour? Why not base info like that to figure this out?

(You)

>Ban phoneposters

Sup Forums already does this with Vodafone

A quick google search gave me this. Although, for some reason not all boards are listed and admittedly I don't know how reliable the info is as I just found it.

catalog.neet.tv/stats.html

Every time there's a new server cost issue you idiots think deleting small traffic boards is going to do jack shit
Switch to a different captcha and increase post time, maybe more Sup Forums neckbeard pass perks to intice more to buy it.

The answer is very simple.

cryptominer when?

>deletion of certain big boards like /soc/ for instance
Delete Sup Forums instead. It's brought nothing but problems and the worst of the worst newfags to the site.

Hiro should openly sell user analytics for big bucks

Why would Hiro delete his favorite board?

Requiring a Sup Forums pass to post wouldn't be so bad but unfortunately the last time this happened (by accident) the retarded pass posters only shit-talked about everyone else not being able to post.

He already cut filesizes by 1/3 for 30% of traffic
Sup Forums from 3mb to 2mb

What he can do if he really wants is compress and decompress it on the client side

I believe Google has an API for that, although I don't recommend them at all, just saying it's a plausible idea

Sup Forums already uses gzip. google invented gzip?

Nope gzip is older than Google
GNUzip

How about we sell our collective autism?

there was a breakthrough in lossy compression for jpegs. allows for 20% better compression without a noticeable drop in quality. That'll help certainly.. in the long run

Keep Sup Forums as an ongoing containment board, remove /s4s/, Sup Forums, /mlp/, /vr/ and /vip/ as they're all waste of spaces. The cancer that will surely spread from most of them being removed can be just repelled by actual moderation.
Speaking of moderation, please appoint a actual mod/janitor that do their job and do it well, Sup Forums consistently has the worst moderation for years.

Not just ban phoneposters, outright prohibit posting from mobile devices. One can go so far as to just disallow viewing the site from mobile phones to stop the mass flood of shitpostings.