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Joyrex

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  1. I really like it; I'm old enough to remember the original, so it is interesting the changes in telling the story they made with the modern version.
  2. Shogun (both the 1980 series and the 2024 series) and Constellation
  3. Not helping his recent "I'm not an Antivaxxer" comments in the Guardian...
  4. What? I didn't delete anything...
  5. That's odd - is that on a desktop browser, or a mobile one? Let me know so I can try and reproduce. Is anyone else having this issue?
  6. I think I looked into if we can control who gets what Reactions... I don't think we can. Does your bank support money transfers (here in the States we have something called Zelle) for sending money person-to-person?
  7. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/20/danish-man-on-trial-over-alleged-500k-music-streaming?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Alright, which one of you is it?
  8. I actually heard recently there is a trend towards private communities and forums vs social media sites (Meta, X, Reddit, etc.) as the persistent mining of data and monetization of everything is turning people off... this is why I really held out as long as I could before putting ads on the site.
  9. You can pay via card via PayPal - I don't think you need a PayPal account to do so (last I recall)
  10. I think I can enable Stripe payments, but then that puts more admin overhead on me - let me look into it.
  11. I can see if this is possible (and the subscriber-only emoji). Good ideas! Well, if I do that, a LOT of people would suddenly not be able to post anymore, hence this thread. So in 2024, how do you pay for things online? Surely you use some form of digital currency, and PayPal does allow payments via debit card (transfers from your bank if you do not have funds). Not sure how that works in the Netherlands though.
  12. So I am considering (and have been for some time) of making the site subscription-only where unless you pay for a subscription, you will only see a limited amount of content (aka a paywall). I wish it could be free for everyone, but costs have (and continue) to go up over the years, now costing 100 USD per month to run this forum (thankfully the costs of the forum software is part of that). For a long time now (since 2013) all new members have been required to have a subscription, but an old loophole in the forum software allowed paying members whose subscriptions lapsed to continue to access the site. I am considering turning this off so if you are not a paying member, you will be limited to how many pages you can view before being presented with a paywall. The Google Ads was meant to offset the lack/inconsistency of non-subscribers and has been fine, but of course it donks up the site and in some cases renders it unbrowsable from certain devices. If we go this subscription-only and limited content route, maybe the ads can go away? So, I'd like to hear your thoughts - I fully expect to hear a wide range of opinions, so have at it.
  13. Their recent output is pretty good...
  14. I understand... I had to resort to ads because subscriptions weren't keeping this place afloat (consistently), and I would love not having to do ads at all again, but that would require everyone who wants to participate to pay something to keep this place alive.
  15. That's your choice... but it may not be a choice for much longer. Safari too has adblockers... but that won't help with limited access to content for non-subscribers.
  16. Probably due to all the ads... I would suggest getting a subscription so you don't see them, support the site and have a better browsing experience.
  17. https://bleep.com/stream/janaury-sale-2024-warp-records?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WarpBot+-+January+Sale++24&utm_campaign=WarpBot+-+WarpBleep+Sale
  18. FWIW, I set up a redirect from watmm.com to forum.watmm.com after we moved hosting for the forum to the forum software provider.
  19. What about if you go directly to https://forum.watmm.com?
  20. So from a PC or Mac, you cannot log in via a browser (Edge/Chrome/Firefox/Safari)?
  21. Yes, but then there needs to be a facility to then load an image(s) if you wanted to view something... far beyond a simple request.
  22. It already "lazy loads" images to reduce bandwidth/loading times, so there's not much more than can (easily) be done.
  23. No... get a better internet connection.
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