Random NYSkiBlog Stuff That You Might Not Care About

Sorry about that Peter. I'll try to get it addressed.

PM me your comment.
 
Green light said:
Pray tell, where do we find the stats?
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Ignore stats are only visible to moderators. I always wondered if it would help the quality of conversation if that info was public, but whatever.

A good approximation... if your number of posts is higher than your reaction score, you're probably being ignored by someone.
 
It is a great feature to have. I don’t have to waste time on a lot of meaningless baloney.
Thanks for the explanation
 
You might notice that if you post a really long title for a post, I shorten it. I'm supposed to be able to set a character limit on titles, and I did set it (48 characters I think?) but for whatever reason it doesn't work.

Merry Christmas!
 
I been wondering about what will happen to NYSB in the future.

I love it, and want to do it. More. Really.

But at some point I'll have to decide. Do I kill it, or pass it on?

If I pass it on, someone will turn it into something else. I'm not sure I want that.

Looking for any input.
 
Brownski said:
Very morose. You have to pass it on. You wouldn’t just be deleting your own work. Lots of other people have contributed. Of course it will change. Everything does. And yeah, it may stop getting traffic and eventually fold. Nothing lasts forever but you shouldn’t kill just because you don’t control it anymore
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It's not cool for me to fold it, but if I pass it on and someone else does that's ok?

There's no need to delete it. It would be easy to keep it up on the internet. Convert every page to html (like we did with the forum archives) and it wouldn't need updating, support, security or money beyond hosting. Maybe a few hundred a year. It would be frozen in time. The way it is now, costs are somewhere between $2000-3000 each year.

And there is the time. If you try to login in and you see a 429 error or 500 error, realize that I'm on hold, or talking with our hosting company trying to get the site back up. I'm looking into Cloudflare now, a great product that could block a lot of bot issues, also another annual subscription.

NYSB is almost 20 years old. Maybe when you've managed your podcast for 20 years you'll cut me a break. I'm more proud of NYSB than anything I've done in my career and I don't want to see nyskiblog.com captured by spammers. Who remembers SkiAdk and how that ended?

Or Google "Japanese Keyword Hack" — it happened to NYSB about 5 years ago. I used to let authors post their own stuff on the front page, but I couldn't count on them to use strong passwords, so I started posting everything myself.

NYSB only works if someone believes in it, and thinks it's worth the effort. I'm wondering if that person exists.

I had to look up morose. Ick.
 
Harvey said:
It's not cool for me to fold it, but if I pass it on and someone else does that's ok?
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What I meant was if people stop posting and it withers on the vine, that is different than pulling the plug while it is still vibrant. Archiving would work for the front page but not the forum. If you handed it over to someone like me or Ripitz do you think it would change all that much? I mean I would occasionally post a 3,000 word expose. I would try to add more humor. On the forum there’s maybe one person I would ban
 
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