Cpt.Underpants
Member
Be scared...very scared
More members, more graveyards for Bish to dig or other members digging their own graves
GAF is growing
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More members, more graveyards for Bish to dig or other members digging their own graves
dark_prinny
Banned
The upcoming new consoles will probably mean many console-war related bannings.
forknknife
Banned
I cannot wait to see it. Do you know when will it be released more or less?
n64coder
Member
I would like the ability to use gmail address. Perhaps your account could have 2 email addresses? One is your primary address and the other is your signup address? So you still have to use an ISP/work/edu to sign up but then all emails/PMs get sent to your primary address? Then you have the best of both worlds?
Be scared...very scared
The funny thing is that bans are actually somewhat more frequent now.
Yes.
Many old gaffers seems to have gone. New ones arrive and 90% are culled within a few weeks it seems.
forknknife
Banned
Me too, I only got my account approved when I used my work's email address. Now I'm stuck working in this crappy office for life
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I've been thinking about this for the past few days. I just don't understand how a compelling film based on the best online gaming and otherwise message board will work. Perhaps I'm just not artistic enough to figure it out. What are they going to point a camera at the screen and F5 that shit?
Oh look Snuggler has posted, wait here comes SmokeyDave, will WhatRobEats follow? I hope I'm wrong and I'm sure I am, I guess I just don't understand fully how this will work unless it's not so much about the site and instead about the controversial and informative aspects of it.
By approaching from a human angle and not a technology angle.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I'm excited to see what comes of it for sure.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
Congratulations to this, Tyler! In connection to this, I've wondered if you have ever considered exhibiting at E3 (or other large expo). IGN, Machinima and Multiplayer.it are exhibiting this year. While their revenue may be higher than NeoGAF LLC's I doubt you would have much trouble raising funds for a booth (I'm sure a lot of readers would be willing to help out). I assume you (and your associates) are attending this year anyway and that allows for some good communication. Though a booth would most certainly make more of an impact. If anything you could use it to drive ad sales (if you decide to switch strategy regarding that for the redesign).
Diablohead
Member
Turns out that in this dimension, GAF is actually SkyNet
dark_prinny
Banned
Glad to see GAF growing. For me, nothing comes close to it.
Best gaming related forum by far.
Best gaming related forum by far.
Mystic_Wanderer
Member
Yeah, it's been nice so far. I like it.
Are these people who are lurking?
I see a lot more sites are taking info posted on Neogaf as supposed insider truth and speculation as we inch towards new consoles. If the same info was posted on another forum, I would assume it was fake.
I don't doubt more and more are seeing GAF as a place to fuel rumors or speculation. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I see a lot more sites are taking info posted on Neogaf as supposed insider truth and speculation as we inch towards new consoles. If the same info was posted on another forum, I would assume it was fake.
I don't doubt more and more are seeing GAF as a place to fuel rumors or speculation. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
I'm glad I could be a part of that 10%
Edit: Also, much <3 GAF and I enjoy more people around that post sensible things, just adds to the discussion.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I'm glad I could be a part of that 10%
You know what they say about counting chickens right?
Cymbal Head
Banned
I saw "scheduled maintenance." Or is that some kind of sick Orwellian code for "unexpected problems"?
We had a really awful combination, today, of unprecedented traffic (expected, of course) and the physical failure of one of our database servers at the worst possible time. We're on 50% power with the database servers right now. Keep in mind that each one of them is really strong, but we hit an i/o hard wall during the conference and shortly after because of that. Entire internet was spamming F5.
I'm having gromph redeploy our database tomorrow to even more powerful servers, essentially the most ridiculous array possible, no expense spared to round out any possible weakness, to try to prepare us better for what's to come.
Major, major disappointment that we were down for almost the entire conference. It would be great if we could use an elastic solution to dynamically address load with no upper limit, like Amazon EC2, but apparently that's not viable for our setup.
I'm having gromph redeploy our database tomorrow to even more powerful servers, essentially the most ridiculous array possible, no expense spared to round out any possible weakness, to try to prepare us better for what's to come.
Major, major disappointment that we were down for almost the entire conference. It would be great if we could use an elastic solution to dynamically address load with no upper limit, like Amazon EC2, but apparently that's not viable for our setup.
EviLore, some days, shit just goes wrong. This day was one of them. I think most of GAF is okay with what happened today, albeit a little disappointed. Regardless, thanks for letting us know what you guys are doing behind the scenes to help make things better. And to Gromph too for trying hard to keep the boat afloat. Respect.
legacyzero
Banned
Things break.
One does not simply guage the level of hype for a conference like this before it happens. E3 is gonna be worse.
nothing screams Website popularity more than some major traffic-induced crashes! At least that's how I look at it
CrunchyFrog
Member
Sounds like you just need a new warp core and some lens flare, there, Scotty
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Errrrr.......WAT? The last thing Sony did today was fail.
Ace Harding
Member
Any stats from today? Peak users online, hits, etc?
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
That wasn't the feeling in steamchat, but I guess we're coming from a different angle.
Certainly the minority angle, but you can't please everyone.
There's EC2 instances with 224GB RAM now. I'd be surprised if those couldn't handle the load, cost might be an issue though - they aren't cheap. Around 10k/year for a reserved instance, 30k/year if you go the on-demand route.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Account:
Honestly the over-influx of juniors caused by the massive popularity of Gaf over the last couple years have contributed to lessen the quality of the discussions a fair bit even if it saddens me to admit it. There's much more dumb and blind fanboyism too that seems to go unpunished plenty of times. I'd encourage Evillore to make the waiting time of approval fixed to never less than 4 or even better 6 months. That would give juniors some perspective on how to value their account, I waited over a year for mine and the vast majority of the times you can rest assured that juniors who got approved in less than a week or two will not value their accounts the same way I do: "well they'll get banned then, good for exposing the idiots" you might say but it's not that simple since the quality of the interactions suffer in the meantime and mods aren't everywhere either.
Mods:
I also think mods should be held accountable for the bannings. We know this is not a democracy, but there must be a way to make more public how a ban has been handled to make sure personal matters haven't got in the way (like it has happened sometimes) and that there's some consistency in the bannings: sometimes it feels like each mod follows a different rulebook/TOS and that sure doesn't feel good as a member.
My two cents anyway.
Honestly the over-influx of juniors caused by the massive popularity of Gaf over the last couple years have contributed to lessen the quality of the discussions a fair bit even if it saddens me to admit it. There's much more dumb and blind fanboyism too that seems to go unpunished plenty of times. I'd encourage Evillore to make the waiting time of approval fixed to never less than 4 or even better 6 months. That would give juniors some perspective on how to value their account, I waited over a year for mine and the vast majority of the times you can rest assured that juniors who got approved in less than a week or two will not value their accounts the same way I do: "well they'll get banned then, good for exposing the idiots" you might say but it's not that simple since the quality of the interactions suffer in the meantime and mods aren't everywhere either.
Mods:
I also think mods should be held accountable for the bannings. We know this is not a democracy, but there must be a way to make more public how a ban has been handled to make sure personal matters haven't got in the way (like it has happened sometimes) and that there's some consistency in the bannings: sometimes it feels like each mod follows a different rulebook/TOS and that sure doesn't feel good as a member.
My two cents anyway.