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Honestly from what I can gather from financial terms, and it's not something I get involved in but I understand the costs through my work, if 25% of the properly active user base who have tens of thousands of posts valued this community enough to join the ad free scheme then it would secure the...

I don't the exact figures off hand but I reckon the ad free tier pays for MAYBE 5% of the monthly costs at best. And that's after years of there being no ad free tier. This forum survives because Ric and his family supports it and maybe people should recognise that more. If something tragic were...

I barracked him for years about it, but he did relent somewhat. https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/account/upgrades There's an ad free tier now but Ric being Ric doesn't advertise it enough!

Guests ad usage can help pay for users who can't afford the ad free thing though. And they can't post as guests, so it's a trade off I guess.

Pretty much. 85%+ users are usually not logged in when they visit the site. It has grown, in 2012ish it was around 75%. I will also mention for absolutely no reason that we surpassed RAWK in unique user traffic in 2018 and have never had a single season beneath them since then. Not that I'm...

How that was implemented in the old forum is that each user ID was listed in the database with a thread ID linked to a post ID. So every UserID linked to every thread ID linked to every post ID. The table was hundreds of thousands of rows long and due to the DB engine it used, it locked the...

It's increased in terms of unique active users by about 20% in the last 10 years and post per week is generally stable. Although the spikes we get now are bigger than they used to be.

People joke about this but they don't understand how much of a massive performance cost search is. We now (and have for many years) have a machine that does nothing but handle search indexing.

Teletext still works??? Who the bloody hell is writing articles for that?

City are Schrodingers team. We either are failures because we don't have a central striker who can drag us through against relegation strugglers who use the low block (and we win the league) or we're overreliant on a central striker who can drag us through against relegation strugglers who use...

"Based on". They literally just stole Zadok the Priest

Bollocks to that. Boo them forever.

Ah yes, the RSF. A Sudanese organisation stemming from a different Sudanese organisation, ran by a Sudanese General and who worked for the Sudanese Government in Sudan to administer Sudanese policy until their split a few years ago is "an invading militia"

I don't believe the UAE funding a regional conflict to stop Iranian and Russian influence in the region is akin to comparing them to Nazi Germany, frankly.

Are you purposely asking stupid questions? Are you comparing, say, the US funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight Russians to the fucking Holocaust?

But that's what it is. Every country, including the UK engages in it. Many people argue that the UK are doing so right now with Israel. Or not that long ago in Indonesia and East Timor. The US charge sheet for this would be longer than the word limit on posts. Cold and proxy wars using immoral...

But it is? The Sudanese military, who have also been accused of genocide and are financially supported by both Russia and Iran, are direct competitors to the UAE in terms of the resources there and Iran specifically have been in a long term proxy war with over control of the Persian Gulf, the...

I'm more concerned that people are only now working out that the UAE engages in geopolitical gamemanship including arming some less than moral people to achieve their aims. Wait until you learn what Western countries have been doing in the rest of the world for about a thousand years. Or China...

@Ric this is generated by an ad it seems

Possibly VPN but not definitely. The request is actually fairly benign for most extensions and the extension devs just haven't had chance to put out a hotfix. (Basically, Chrome extensions could always do this without you knowing but now they've put in a permissions guard) With that said, you...