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Rambler OP admin wrote

Holy hell, I haven't seen or heard of Oink and What.cd in a long time. I remember when an old room mate invited me to those.

Man, I sure do miss Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, Morpheus, etc. I used to have a pretty large music collection at one point. Though now I enjoy listening to some of my favorites on vinyl. We need a music forum, stat.

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darkmoor wrote

Totally, I started out using Kazaa Lite and Morpheus. We had a nice amount of bandwidth for the Era at home, something like 8mbps. Then I started torrenting a bit later on suprnova.org. Now most people's experience on the internet is seeing posts from people they've known their entire life. It's narrowing, most of the culture i've learned about was from interacting with Europeans on IRC from Oink.me.uk and What.cd.

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Rambler admin wrote

It's anywhere you look on the internet, of course. :)

Our ruleset is basic ( /w/rules ) so if you're up for the task of moderating an adult forum, be my guest.

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Rambler OP admin wrote

Welcome, and you make some good points.

Social media is a cancer. The prime internet, to me, was the mid 90's to early 00's. That was a time when file sharing was becoming mainstream, the internet was in more and more people's homes and more people were connected on IRC, chatrooms, and standalone message forums. You almost never knew or cared what the name of the person was you were interacting with, because everyone was behind a handle. If they shared an image for a profile picture (for example) it was almost always a movie, TV or cartoon character.

It was a simpler time in the digital age. A better time.

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Rambler admin wrote

Good question.

By design, not much is collected. What did you supply when signing up? A username and a password is what most people supply.

For those who value privacy, I would imagine they use a different username/password combination for each website, it's not a bad idea, and good OpSec practices are beneficial to everyone. :)

But you asked how things are stored and protected. Information (posts, comments, username/pass) are stored in a PostgreSQL database. Passwords are hashed using the bcrypt algorithm. IP logs are minimal and temporary, not that they'd offer much in terms of identification of users due to the options allowed (and encouraged) of connecting and interacting with the website. Since most people are using anonymity networks to access this website I think, there address of origin is ever changing.

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