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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by raincoat in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat

Well, there is still the idea of rebranding to https://otr.cx which is a domain I own that I'd like to put to use and I think is a better 'fit' for what I really wanted this site to be.

The thing about this site is the software that runs it is near prohibitively difficult to work with and is developed by someone who is completely against the idea of this site using her software. (It's open source and public: https://gitlab.com/postmill )

My coding skills are, well, pretty non-existent. Outside of some basic PHP and bash scripting you won't see anything created from scratch by me. And trust me, I've gone through the entire fleet of available projects found of github / gitlab as well over the last few months.

Unfortunately, anything like feature requests are just out of the picture at this time. If someone is actually capable of the task and wishes to implement some changes, I'll happily sponsor an adequate VPS for a non-public RAMBLE dev site.

Definitely a lot of unmet potential here. I'd like to keep the site more geared privacy and technology, but have it still be a source of news and discussion, even if it's controversial.

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raincoat OP wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat

I get it. It’s really easy for tasks, errands etc. to pile up during times like that. Sometimes you have to block out almost everything except the most important and urgent tasks (and maybe hire or get help for some tasks). Don’t worry too much about how the site is doing. The functionality is good. I think most people report bugs so you are aware of them, not to put pressure. And feature requests are just ideas. The site has a lot of potential even with no new features. Guessing it might just need around 15 or 20 more users to really start taking off. An invite system could outsource the work of promoting the site, but it makes sense to postpone any coding and new users coming to the site until you’re less busy. Invite-only could reduce the regular bad actors but probably not the ones who emit a mysterious light.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat

I haven't forgotten about this place, though I do have regret that my focus being temporarily shifted elsewhere has negatively impacted RAMBLE. I've got a lot going on both in terms of my career and personal life.

I'm going to try to manage and balance my time better. I'd like to shift things back into gear here.

/u/raincoat , thanks for this post. Glad to see it.

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raincoat OP wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat

I can only think of one person off the top of my head, but for me it would be easy to find more since I have a reddit account where I save interesting posts. If you go on other forums, you could just keep the idea in the back of your mind when reading and if there's someone who's really knowledgeable about a subject or has interesting ideas or research, you could invite them or make a note of their username to invite later. Like I said, it doesn't have to be a strict Mensa thing. The main caution is to avoid inviting NPCs from either the left or the right.

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J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote

Reply to Anyone can get monkeypox, but CDC warns LGBTQ community about 'greater chance' of exposure now | CNN by awdrifter

Oh God. I hope you'll all take the time to read this article. It's a monument to politely dancing around an inconvenient truth.

“Anyone, anyone, can develop [and] spread monkeypox infection, but … many of those affected in the current global outbreak identified as gay and bisexual men.”

Yeah, anyone you have anal sex with. XD

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BlueHat OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by solstice in My server on the yggdrasil network by BlueHat

My assumption was that the 500 was somehow caused by the link I posted. I noticed that it's quite common for parsers to break around IPv6 links, like how they sometimes mess up when you put them in markdown or how Firefox tries to encode the square brackets in the url when you copy it from the address bar. Perhaps developers will pay closer attention to these issues if IPv6 ever becomes a norm.

testv6

testv4

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Wahaha wrote (edited )

Reply to the internet is fun by solstice

If you do not look for approval from other people it hardly matters. At least homosexuals only have to deal with disapproval from a few people. For me there were concerted efforts to ban/censor part of my hobby starting back in 2009 and they've been succeeding.

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