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cookmeplox

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About cookmeplox

email: cookmeplox@weirdgloop.org / discord: cookmeplox

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48868993

    I have a medium-sized Discord server of web sysadmin people (mostly wiki operators) that came together after I wrote a similar blog post [1] about how the LLM scrapers/resproxies a…

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    Comment #41801189

    https://weirdgloop.org/feed.xml should do it

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    Comment #41800704

    Yeah - it would be on the same domain, so way users access it wouldn't change at all. If any of the wikis we host want to leave, we'd provide them with a database dump. The admins …

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    Comment #41800651

    We have services agreements with the League of Legends and RuneScape developers, and we run 1 ad (below-the-fold, not in EU/UK) on the RuneScape wikis. This covers all expenses (in…

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    Comment #41800524

    Thanks! I've been meaning to write up a post that talks about some of the specific tricks we're using. A couple big ones: - Heavy use of Cloudflare Workers to cache ~95% of logged-…

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    Comment #41799932

    That's me! I also wrote the blog :)

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    Comment #41799846

    We're already turning a profit! And there are no third-party investors (or debt) – it's all controlled by wiki people[1] [1] https://meta.weirdgloop.org/w/Weird_Gloop_Limited

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    Comment #41041715

    Your formulation is not equivalent. The actual Ramsey theory formulation is something more like...you need to color, either red or blue, all of the edges of a fully connected graph…

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    Comment #37652677

    I think you might have some of the facts wrong here - the post you're talking about never mentioned moving back to Fandom (nobody would ever entertain that option), and we ended up…

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    Comment #37646409

    > Maybe I have an incorrect view of the costs/revenue. I run Weird Gloop (the group hosting the Minecraft/RuneScape wikis) and your view is generally correct. The content is extrem…

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    Comment #37636264

    It's totally possible to beat the old wiki on Google! We did it for runescape.wiki, which was the most popular wiki on Fandom before we left in 2018.

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    Comment #34703816

    Cool to see our site show up on HN! Thanks for the kind words :)

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    Comment #34703612

    The FAQ https://rs-archive.github.io/faq.html is pretty clear about what they're used for: > They contain all the various raw assets used in the game (e.g. maps, models, sounds) an…