Omnimaga
General Discussion => Other Discussions => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on December 18, 2010, 08:18:05 pm
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http://tibank.forumactif.com/t6398-pubs-x3-portail
O.O
I also saw that happen on Invisionfree, shortly after the old Omnimaga board closed. I kinda feel bad for TI-BANK, since they use a free hosting provider, thus, cannot get rid of ads (you get what you pay for).
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Wonderful ads, aren't they :P
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Indeed. D:
Ad sites picks random ads based on your site content, but sadly, it's not 100% accurate. It may base its search on the keyword "male" or "female" instead of "cable" and "link port", for a while, and that can give a wide variety of results. Usually you have to report these ads, but then new ones comes up, so it's an endless fight...
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It's interesting how an ad can easily destroy the reputation of a website.
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Yeah. If a teacher notices bad content on a site, he can report it and the site gets in trouble and loses visitors...
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I was very shocked when I saw the ads ... -_-'
I think it will reduce the number of visitors (those who go will see news from other sites) as the failure of PHP4.
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What was the ad? All I'm getting is Newegg for mice or stupid shit
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I think it was an adult-destinated ad with content which is not for the youngest of us ;D
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Yeah, blatant pr0n, apparently. Earlier I got dating ads too. Hopefully the ad company fixes it. I would hate if TI-BANK got a bad reputation, but again, a lot of people have ads blocked. It's just that some people are not familiar with the Internet and may literally think TI-BANK promotes adult material, which is not the case.
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I think it will reduce the number of visitors (those who go will see news from other sites) as the failure of PHP4.
I don't think the PHP4 failure has reduced anything.
Also, unlike other sites hosted by Free.fr, you shouldn't have gotten 500 errors on TI-Bank for over a month.
I've developped a TI-Bank specific script which does switch between the PHP4 and the PHP5 servers if one of them is down.
The only problem could be if both servers were down at the same time, which hasn't happened up to now.
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That's really bad, I couldn't possibly imagine such ads here in Ominaga :(
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I think it will reduce the number of visitors (those who go will see news from other sites) as the failure of PHP4.
I don't think the PHP4 failure has reduced anything.
Also, unlike other sites hosted by Free.fr, you shouldn't have gotten 500 errors on TI-Bank for over a month.
I've developped a TI-Bank specific script which does switch between the PHP4 and the PHP5 servers if one of them is down.
The only problem could be if both servers were down at the same time, which hasn't happened up to now.
That's an interesting script you have. I wish 1and1 500 Internal Server Errors were due to PHP itself instead of MySQL database server, so maybe we could have switched from PHP5 to 4 when needed on my other website. Omnimaga could never do that because some code is different between PHP4 and 5 (OmnomIRC) but TIMGUL could. At least I'm glad TI-BANK doesn't have as many downtimes.
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The more hardware-related a site is, the worse the ads get O.O
Here the ads would probably be more gambling services ;D But you never know.
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I am more worried about what ads we would get while browsing the Randomness board, especially if someone decides to check the oldest topics, such as this one (http://ourl.ca/3446)...
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http://tibank.forumactif.com/t6398-pubs-x3-portail
O.O
I also saw that happen on Invisionfree, shortly after the old Omnimaga board closed. I kinda feel bad for TI-BANK, since they use a free hosting provider, thus, cannot get rid of ads (you get what you pay for).
I cant even /access/ the site O.O
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http://tibank.forumactif.com/t6398-pubs-x3-portail
O.O
I also saw that happen on Invisionfree, shortly after the old Omnimaga board closed. I kinda feel bad for TI-BANK, since they use a free hosting provider, thus, cannot get rid of ads (you get what you pay for).
I cant even /access/ the site O.O
I can, it works :S
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http://tibank.forumactif.com/t6398-pubs-x3-portail
O.O
I also saw that happen on Invisionfree, shortly after the old Omnimaga board closed. I kinda feel bad for TI-BANK, since they use a free hosting provider, thus, cannot get rid of ads (you get what you pay for).
I cant even /access/ the site O.O
I can, it works :S
I have found that using downforeveryoneorjustme.com is a great way to see if sites are down. That is, until downforeveryoneorjustme is down. I don't know why that is so fun to type. It's easy to remember too.
note, I'm not advertising a site, I have no affiliation to the site. AlsotypingallyourwordstogetherwithoutaddingaspaceinbetweenmakesitreallyhardtoreadIdontaddanypunctationtomakeitlookmoredifficulttoreadAlsoifyoureadthisyoudeserveoneappleTypinglikethismakesmyheadhurtbecausemyfingerswanttopressspacesomuch.
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isup.me is so much shorter to type :P
And that's awful, what happened on TI-Bank. So sad is the damage to the site's reputation those ads brought. :(
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isup.me is so much shorter to type :P
And that's awful, what happened on TI-Bank. So sad is the damage to the site's reputation those ads brought. :(
I don't feel comfortable in those websites, actually. Maybe TI-Bank will get a new host?
/me wonders :S
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isup.me is so much shorter to type :P
And that's awful, what happened on TI-Bank. So sad is the damage to the site's reputation those ads brought. :(
I don't feel comfortable in those websites, actually. Maybe TI-Bank will get a new host?
/me wonders :S
I don't know if they can, actually. I know I was sad when wikidot said that non-logged in people would have adds on their sites.
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Yeah, I hate ads too. I don't exactly know why Omnimaga would need ads, except to make money. But ads, especially Flash ads, look ugly on a webpage and slow it down if they reload themselves, and would probably defeat their purpose. If Omnimaga needs money, they can always have Paypal donations or something. Even Ads by Google might work.
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Does omnimaga need money?
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Well with some current events that I can't divulge ATM, we might need money.
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I hope it works out :(
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Well with some current events that I can't divulge ATM, we might need money.
Don't say anything about it then, because it makes us curious.
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I wont say anything more, just saying we might
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Well the real and actual reason is that it isn't certain I'm continuing paying hosting after October due to online events in the past months, which kinda frustrated me. I'm not really a person to ask anything in return when I help, but when I receive a certain level of crap in return, I tend to not want to help anymore. I don't like punishing groups of people for the actions of 7 or 8 people, but that's still $335 a year I spend from my pocket for everyone.
However, in the worst case scenario, if I stopped paying completely and that the other IRC channel ops could not afford the current bill, the site would simply be moved back to 1and1 and when we hit 200000 posts we would just archive the old posts on a second SMF board, in read-only mode, kinda like the TIGCC forums.
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Well the real and actual reason is that it isn't certain I'm continuing paying hosting after October due to online events in the past months, which kinda frustrated me. I'm not really a person to ask anything in return when I help, but when I receive a certain level of crap in return, I tend to not want to help anymore.
However, in the worst case scenario, if I stopped paying completely and that the other IRC channel ops could not afford the current bill, the site would simply be moved back to 1and1 and when we hit 200000 posts we would just archive the old posts on a second SMF board, in read-only mode, kinda like the TIGCC forums.
DJ, I'd prefer to have ads to getting files archived in a secondary forum. I mean, I wouldn't mind Google Ads, because these are nice and respectful. Some ads are 1366*768 10e1000 pop-up pages with p*rn images and links. But it's your decision.
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Okay, is there any way we can help with that? Because for the other >9000 of us, we like omnimaga a lot.
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Okay, is there any way we can help with that? Because for the other >9000 of us, we like omnimaga a lot.
There are 666 members, I think. If each person gave 1 dollar, we would get 666 dollars, which is quite good.
(Sorry for the Wikipedia-Like Thing). But I hope there was something we could do.
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Hmm, I was thinking we could setup a donate button or something.
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Hmm, I was thinking we could setup a donate button or something.
That's an easy, simple and good idea. Nice!
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The only issue with Google ads, though, is that most people got an ad blocker and a site that gets about 80 millions of hits per month will get about $0.10 worth of ads clicks in that period. When ticalc.org staff met up in 2009, all they could afford with 3 years of Google adsense were a couple of beers.
Also Google ads can have porn, sounds and flash banners, too. It would be even more work. If hosting officially become a problem I guess maybe we could go with a donate button, although fortunately hosting is paid until October 2011 for now.
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Yeah, add-blockers are a problem (I even use one :S)
Yeah, I'm thinking a donate button would be best, hopefully though when I get a job (should be start of summer, or end of it) I can afford to spend a little on Omnimaga too and not just keep it all in the bank for paying for college
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I just realized, I don't know if safari has an ad blocker. I know it has a pop-up blocker. Hm... Google time.
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Firefox and Opera does, but it fails sometimes in Opera, if the ad link constantly changes.
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as long as i'm still here, i shall definitely be donating the next time the bills come around, regardless of whether a button is set up or not. =D