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Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Post by satyanash »

op03 wrote: post #2

Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

> Would moving to torrents reduce the load?

Only if they could figure out a way to host their learning platform, content and scoring on it.

Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Post by elric »

If anyone from Khan Academy is reading this: I tried to donate and my transaction was flagged as "suspicious", now my card is blocked. Probably because their PSP doesn't seem to implement 3DSecure. What's grating is that after I tried to donate I had to solve a bunch of reCaptchas before it showed me the failure status.

Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Post by Crosseye_Jack »

thoraway329 wrote: post #11

The CEO make $824,000 in salary in 2018.. non-profit my ass.

The IT staff also get paid... How very dare them. Go to work and earn a living... It’s disgusting I say. They should do it completely for the love of it. Same goes for those pesky YouTubers.

Long story short. If you don’t offer a decent incentive package, you won’t incentivise people to come and take a CEO roll.

If you look around you will find that CEO at other charity’s also get paid well.

Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Post by op03 »

satyanash wrote: post #12
op03 wrote: post #2

Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Kiwix seems to able to distribute offline wikipedia stackoverflow etc that way - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

> Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Only if they could figure out a way to host their learning platform, content and scoring on it.

Instead of link to vid replace it (or place side by side) with link to torrent (probably with a note about torrent clients the same way Kiwix does). The rest of the platform can still be used as is.

Most people will just click and download will be pretty quick (most vids are quite small).

Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Post by kiba »

op03 wrote: post #18
satyanash wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Would moving to torrents reduce the load? Only if they could figure out a way to host their learning platform, content and scoring on it.

Instead of link to vid replace it (or place side by side) with link to torrent (probably with a note about torrent clients the same way Kiwix does). The rest of the platform can still be used as is. Most people will just click and download will be pretty quick (most vids are quite small).

Video doesn't cost them anything. It's hosted on youtube anyway. It's the rest of the stuff that costs them money.

Re: Khan Academy requests for donations as their servers are at 250% normal load

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Post by thoraway329 »

Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #17
thoraway329 wrote: post #11

The CEO make $824,000 in salary in 2018.. non-profit my ass.

The IT staff also get paid... How very dare them. Go to work and earn a living... It’s disgusting I say. They should do it completely for the love of it. Same goes for those pesky YouTubers. Long story short. If you don’t offer a decent incentive package, you won’t incentivise people to come and take a CEO roll. If you look around you will find that CEO at other charity’s also get paid well.

Yes I know and it does disgust me. I wasn't talking about IT staff and regular employees. The CEO founded the "company", does he really need to incentivise himself with a near million dollars a year? I thought NPOs were created by people who want to change the world, but with this salary it seriously skews my perception of his true intentions.
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