Recent comments in /f/Ramble

Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by ____ in Something new, coming soon. by Rambler

I will. This place was more active towards it's beginning, but I became unavailable due to work / life for a long enough period that things got abused here, I had to turn off registration, and several months later it was still closed.

I'm in a position where I'm more available and motivated now, so thinking a reboot will be a good move.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by BlueHat in Something new, coming soon. by Rambler

I have Throat installed (kind of) on a dev server, but I'm not confident in it just yet. There isn't really any documentation and the only other site that I know using it that isn't the official one is poal.

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BlueHat wrote

Reply to by dhritimitra

That happens with many other eepsites for me. Since it happens to some sites more frequently than others, I'd assume that it's related to geolocation / (how far the server is away from you). I'm not an I2P expert, but the whole tunneling part seems rather complex and prone to latency issues due to possible problems with intermediate routers, so maybe ramble doesn't always resolve properly because of something going wrong in the middle of the connection.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to by dhritimitra

I'm responding to this from ramble.i2p right now, are you still experiencing this?

What I2P subscription lists are you using in https://127.0.0.1:7667/dns ?

For example, mine looks like:

http://identiguy.i2p/hosts.txt
http://notbob.i2p/hosts-all.txt
http://skank.i2p/hosts.txt
http://stats.i2p/cgi-bin/newhosts.txt
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BlueHat wrote

Reply to enable captcha for sign ups by mr4channer

Do captchas even help though? They sure help prevent automated sign-ups, but spam? The modlog documents several spam waves that happened right before registration was disabled. Even Raddle suffers from this, hence why they currently enforce the same measures.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Noob here. How do I create a community? by DoctorForesight

Thanks. I'll always support free speech, even speech I disagree with. I've looked at replacing Ramble with a new platform entirely, as Postmill is a nightmare to work with and modify. Downside to that is that it wouldn't be possible to import current users and data to the new platform in any realistic fashion without paying someone to develop an import tool but the upside being a site that is more easily adjustable to our needs.

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Noob here. How do I create a community? by DoctorForesight

Yeah, being the guy that runs something like a "free-speech" platform is a losing battle. Old Voat eventually had the admin missing in action completely. But then, not every platform needs to grow to the size of reddit. Though, it would be nice if Ramble had a few users more, so I'm advertising this place where I can.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Noob here. How do I create a community? by DoctorForesight

This.

But I'll enable the feature if someone wants to create a new one. I'd leave it open but I'm not around enough to feel comfortable doing it, because people will create dumb shit and post it on other sites trying to get this place shut down.

Last time I pitched the idea for asking for community help running this place, people acted like I was personally inviting spooks to help moderate stuff.

So it's sort of a lose lose from a management perspective. I'd like to see this place be more active but the reality is I'm just one person and run a business and work a regular part time job and try to do that while balancing a normal life.

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