pulse Report This Comment Date: April 23, 2024 09:56AM
Thanks. Not to sound too self serving, but I actually agree with you. I was
waiting to pick up some dinner earlier and looking at a site on my phone without
the comfort of my at-home ad blocking and the amount of "X wants to send
you notifications" popups, ads every 3 lines of text plus a pop-over ad at
the bottom of the page, plus as you scroll down the page disappears into a full
page ad that you need to scroll past etc.. It was horrific, and I ended up
closing it before finishing the article.
The web is getting pretty horrible to traverse, so I'm glad we can have our
little corner of the internet that's not dogshit to view.
As much as I'd love you to all make me a millionaire, we've long since passed
the days where we needed financial support to survive. In the early days it was
insanely hard and expensive to run the site, ESPECIALLY the porn site. When web
hosts charged per thousand hits (and a hit was EVERYTHING; each image on the
page, text body, etc), and for data transferred, and for storage, and ..
These days, the real costs are all sunk costs. We already own the hardware, I've
already paid for it all, and as nice as it would be for the sites to pay me back
all the cash that have been put into them, it doesn't matter. Things were
designed to be able to cope with the much larger porn site running as well, so
the ongoing costs are pretty negligible compared to the setup. If, magically, we
got a heap of users then maybe things would change; but the infrastructure is
now designed in such a way that we can take that, and expand horizontally with
more front end web servers and page accelerators and reignite some of the porn
infrastructure if required.
quasi Report This Comment Date: April 23, 2024 10:17AM
Thanks, pulse.
Still waiting on my sandwich, though. And none of that Vegemite junk.
pulse Report This Comment Date: April 23, 2024 02:34PM
I sent it to you?
1 large Vegemite sandwich to:
Quasi,
Florida, USA.
You didn't get it??
Probably a good thing.
quasi Report This Comment Date: April 24, 2024 11:54AM
Probably got eaten by some Aussie postal employee.
