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How on earth does Cloudfare survive charging $200 for nearly 2PB of traffic? Is the profiling/retargeting business really that lucrative? Do big accounts like that have some kind of revshare deal or mandatory link skimming?
I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
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Minecraft videos are regularly in the top 10 most viewed on YouTube. I think it's that Minecraft is huge plus the players are very engaged on the internet with it.
Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.
Wouldn't uploading their static assets to Amazon's S3 or something like that easy the burden on their servers? Wouldn't the extra cost of a service like that aliviate the load on their backend, and thus, save them more resources? I always thought that was the most compelling feature of AWS S3, besides the "unlimited storage".
I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
If you want to enjoy yourself, you kind of have to know where you're going, and how to knock. Even on "quiet" boards like /lit/, the front page is churning with new threads. Everything is steeped in weird slang and inside jokes. There is no respect for newcomers. People who don't "get" the culture are dismissed with "lurk moar" or simply ignored.
Also, there is always someone, somewhere, who will find any given post hilarious.
4chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second. Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.
I'd write something in detail but I really can't guess what your complaint would be. Unless you want recursive threading or tags.
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Say what you want about the quality of the game (I personally detest many of its more recent changes and its loss of clear direction), Minecraft has a huge and very, very active community. Notch might not have cracked designing a game, but he's certainly cracked making a game community.
A game that is fun and popular is by definition well designed I would say.
I've always seen 4chan as the scumhole of the internet. It scares me that it's so huge. Do I have a wrong impression of it?
I would recomend the /fit. Is a great place to get tips and encouragement for exercises. But go away from /b, it's a mess.
4chan's comment system is awful. I still don't really understand how it works. It seems like they could improve the design and pipe in new comments as they arrive, thus negating all the extra server load caused by browser extensions refreshing every second. Of course, I have no experience dealing with ~1B page views/month.