Brace Yourself, LowEndSpirit Infra Changes On The Horizon

seriesn

@mikho said:
!Quick Announcement!

Early next week there will be a change made to LES. Can't/won't say much more at this point.
Keep your eyes open

Do I need to put my glasses on?

mikho

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:
!Quick Announcement!

Early next week there will be a change made to LES. Can't/won't say much more at this point.
Keep your eyes open

Do I need to put my glasses on?

No need for glasses.
Only make sure your joints are warmed up.
Or you might end up with a stiff neck.

cybertech

new platform?

debaser

The sidebar is going, I guess. Hopefully the rest will center on my screen that has a resolution and format that’s too high for filled out websites.

Lee

Initially read "Early next week there will be a charge made.."

seriesn

@Lee said:
Initially read "Early next week there will be a charge made.."

You been working in the banking sector for way too fucking long

Lee

@seriesn said: You been working in the banking sector for way too fucking long

If you can't charge for it, take it off them.

mikho

@Lee said:
Initially read "Early next week there will be a charge made.."

No worries, I can arrange that too.
A member fee of $7?

Lee

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

mikho

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

Something like that is on the roadmap.
Among other things that @Mason and I discuss.

Its not long ago that the last parts of LES was transferred so that @Mason and I could manage domain/mail settings and such.

Things are happening in the background and as mentioned earlier we have focused on changing a few things as we now are more then one that runs LES and need to be updated on things that happen on this forum.

MichaelCee

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

mikho

@SmallWeb said:

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?
I’m jumping the gun here since questions will be asked later on, but please, tell me your ideas.

MichaelCee

@mikho said: If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?

Just something honest and fair really.

I mentioned raffle idea in another thread, but I think any sort of community events/giveaways and stuff would be good.

seriesn

@mikho said:

@SmallWeb said:

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?
I’m jumping the gun here since questions will be asked later on, but please, tell me your ideas.

I honestly would prefer 1 leaderboard and one footer rotating ads. Not intrusive, everyone gets a fair amount of visibility and please for the love of god, don't allow me to upload flashy ads. If you do, I won't be responsible for the outcome.

mikho

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:

@SmallWeb said:

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?
I’m jumping the gun here since questions will be asked later on, but please, tell me your ideas.

I honestly would prefer 1 leaderboard and one footer rotating ads. Not intrusive, everyone gets a fair amount of visibility and please for the love of god, don't allow me to upload flashy ads. If you do, I won't be responsible for the outcome.

Flashy ads breaks rule number one!

seriesn

@mikho said:

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:

@SmallWeb said:

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?
I’m jumping the gun here since questions will be asked later on, but please, tell me your ideas.

I honestly would prefer 1 leaderboard and one footer rotating ads. Not intrusive, everyone gets a fair amount of visibility and please for the love of god, don't allow me to upload flashy ads. If you do, I won't be responsible for the outcome.

Flashy ads breaks rule number one!

Am I cool yet?

mikho

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:

@SmallWeb said:

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?
I’m jumping the gun here since questions will be asked later on, but please, tell me your ideas.

I honestly would prefer 1 leaderboard and one footer rotating ads. Not intrusive, everyone gets a fair amount of visibility and please for the love of god, don't allow me to upload flashy ads. If you do, I won't be responsible for the outcome.

Flashy ads breaks rule number one!

Am I cool yet?

You sneak

seriesn

@mikho said:

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:

@seriesn said:

@mikho said:

@SmallWeb said:

@Lee said:

@mikho said: A member fee of $7?

To be honest why not. Offer people a 'supporters' title, access to a private forum, no ads and other perks that won't cost you anything and I suspect quite a few would sign up to it just to support the place. It will end up paying hosting costs if nothing else.

I would pay for a supporters title that actually hits the spot. Not just WHT style though, something more community based.

I'm not a sidebar ad person so won't be doing those again, so if you want to monetize me there's your chance

If you don’t mind me asking, what is your spot?
I’m jumping the gun here since questions will be asked later on, but please, tell me your ideas.

I honestly would prefer 1 leaderboard and one footer rotating ads. Not intrusive, everyone gets a fair amount of visibility and please for the love of god, don't allow me to upload flashy ads. If you do, I won't be responsible for the outcome.

Flashy ads breaks rule number one!

Am I cool yet?

You sneak

DataGizmos

Why not just allow people who don't want to pay for ads to pay for "nothing" and give them priority.
If an ad costs $5 for example - let a supporter buy an ad space and let it show up as blank, empty, not attribution- just whitespace.

If enough supporters buy nothing, there will be no ads selling something. So, those that want nothing- win. If those that want nothing are more vocal than supportive, then we get ads for something.

So, everyone will face the internal dilemma- do they want something or nothing; or do they just want to discuss forever.

caracal

@DataGizmos said:
So, everyone will face the internal dilemma- do they want something or nothing; or do they just want to discuss forever.

I'll pay $7 for a thread to discuss this forever

Ympker

@Mason said:

@Not_Oles said:

@Mason said:
Back in action! Forum has been successfully migrated to Hetzner Cloud

Gut gemacht! Funktioniert hier gut! Aber warum ist die Seite jetzt Niedrig Ende Geist? 😵

Schon gut, alles Teil des Plans!

How did I miss this?! Love your german guys @Mason @Not_Oles

PHP_Backend

@Mason , on main post, "Thanks" font size looks bigger.

ialexpw

Adding to the above, hopefully posting here makes sense (both in dark mode);

Only seems to be with that title from what I've seen so far.

cybertech

@ialexpw said:
Adding to the above, hopefully posting here makes sense (both in dark mode);

Only seems to be with that title from what I've seen so far.

damn now it's no more secret

mikho

Heads up.

Going to test self-hosted Matomo (previously known as Piwik) as the Vanilla statistics are not reliable.
Adding the Javascript code right after this post is made.

If you have any issues, let me know.

Mason

This announcement/post can now be put to rest. All planned infra changes are now complete.

To recap, the following items have all been completed and tested:

• Migrating LES Forum to new VPS @ Hetzner Cloud
• Migrating LES Blog to new VPS @ Hetzner Cloud
• Change LES Blog CMS (Grav -> Wordpress) and migrate existing articles
• Migrating email hosting to new provider (Amazon SES & Mailcheap)
• Rebuild development/staging environment
• Create a support system for tickets/helpdesk (HESK)

The support site has just gone live last night (added a link to the nav bar), so we'll be using that for support requests moving forward (things like provider tag requests, account issues, etc.) rather than relying on PMs as they tend to fall through the cracks that way. Will be updating the rules/various places that say to PM one of us to reflect the change of using the support site instead.

Cheers and thanks for everyone's patience during the maintenance/transition period!