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2025-07-31 --Tech & Moderator Notes

Rantburg.com is moving to a new server — please donate!

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-31 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [427 views ] Top

#1 Thanks badanov. Setting up new web servers are fun!

Posted by DarthVader 2025-07-30 00:16|| 2025-07-30 00:16|| Front Page || Comments Top

#2 Xeon was a good choice.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-30 01:27|| 2025-07-30 01:27|| Front Page || Comments Top

#3 How do you follow people on this site?
And how do you post memes and .gifs inline?
There is a button to post photos but it's bugged out. It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-30 02:39|| 2025-07-30 02:39|| Front Page || Comments Top

#4 We don’t have a following capability, sorry. But you can ask someone to meet you in the O Club chatroom — which is for everyone, not just whatever officers would be here — and exchange information there, if the other person is willing. Posts there age out and disappear instead of being archived like here in Rantburg proper.

About gifs and things, I don’t know, but tweets have Embed and YouTube has Share.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-30 03:29|| 2025-07-30 03:29|| Front Page || Comments Top

#5 We have discord: https://discord.gg/MDHJEhuw

You can access the o-club here, but be advised between 15 mins. after and 35 mins after , odd hours time Zulu, the server is shut down to update the database (it also is the backup server). Loads of spam also is conveyed there, until a mod clears it out.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 05:34|| 2025-07-30 05:34|| Front Page || Comments Top

#6 There is an informal group chat at Facebook, but you must get one of the participants to follow you.

My Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/chris.covert.1441

My X page is https://x.com/badanov

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 05:34|| 2025-07-30 05:34|| Front Page || Comments Top

#7 You can contact me at gmail grurkka

I have two Rumble channel: Telnyashka and Rantburg.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 05:35|| 2025-07-30 05:35|| Front Page || Comments Top

#8 It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

I thought those were your comments.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-30 09:55|| 2025-07-30 09:55|| Front Page || Comments Top

#9 "Use your words"

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 12:06|| 2025-07-30 12:06|| Front Page || Comments Top

#10 #

This gibberish test is what happens when I press "foto" instead of the usual dialog box that lets you upload content. Like on every other social media site on the internet.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-30 12:29|| 2025-07-30 12:29|| Front Page || Comments Top

#11 How do I block other users? Like the jerk who said my comments are random text. I don't demand others be censored, I just don't want to see them.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-30 12:33|| 2025-07-30 12:33|| Front Page || Comments Top

#12 ^ Close your eyes and hum

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 12:46|| 2025-07-30 12:46|| Front Page || Comments Top

#13 #12 How do I block other users? Like the jerk who said my comments are random text. I don't demand others be censored, I just don't want to see them.

We have no provisions for that.

Sorry.

Posted by badanov 2025-07-30 12:48|| 2025-07-30 12:48|| Front Page || Comments Top

#14 It just sprays a bunch of random text into my comment.

When I press Foto, I get a file browser window. Maybe you are not pressing the mouse right.

As for I thought those were your comments, I laffed.
I'm just a guest here, but as near as I can tell, the Three Commandments are:
1. Be insightful
2. Be snarky
3. Be both

Posted by SteveS 2025-07-30 13:15|| 2025-07-30 13:15|| Front Page || Comments Top

#15 Rantburg’s code could use a bit of cleaning up, ‘tis true. Something badanov and Fred will look into after the current move is complete. When they’re ready we’ll put out a call for the list, and get it all done at once so that it all dovetails neatly instead of each fix cascading other problems.

At that point we’ll point out limitations deliberately built in to prevent spam and other malicious actors — because of the sandbox we play in, there are bad people out there who would do serious harm if it weren’t for the security precautions Fred has worked to improve upon since the early days of stopping script kiddie DDOS attacks on the Burg. Y’all remember the epically annoying temper tantrums of little JUSTICE from Saudi Arabia?

It occurs to me, Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435, that some of your complaints may because you tripped one or some of those safeguards.

But we aren’t ever going to install Mean Girl flourishes here, no matter how popular TikTok and Facebook.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-30 14:33|| 2025-07-30 14:33|| Front Page || Comments Top

#16 /\ Perfect.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2025-07-30 15:59|| 2025-07-30 15:59|| Front Page || Comments Top

#17 It occurs to me, Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435, that some of your complaints may because you tripped one or some of those safeguards.

I have another suggestion

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-30 16:50|| 2025-07-30 16:50|| Front Page || Comments Top

#18 You all are cute with your Discord.

Xeon is the Cristal of Chips. Thumbs up.

Posted by mossomo 2025-07-30 16:54|| 2025-07-30 16:54|| Front Page || Comments Top

#19 Looking forward to putting together my inaugural post!:

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-07-30 20:18|| 2025-07-30 20:18|| Front Page || Comments Top

#20 ^#19 a keypunch IBM big, heavy unforgiving...

Posted by Alpha2c 2025-07-31 03:08|| 2025-07-31 03:08|| Front Page || Comments Top

#21 Done

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-07-31 07:19|| 2025-07-31 07:19|| Front Page || Comments Top

#22 With PayPal, it's so easy even a caveman could do it!

Posted by Bobby 2025-07-31 07:39|| 2025-07-31 07:39|| Front Page || Comments Top

#23 Added a tip to my regular contribution. Have a beer on me. My 2¢

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2025-07-31 09:02|| 2025-07-31 09:02|| Front Page || Comments Top

#24 Done

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-31 10:08|| 2025-07-31 10:08|| Front Page || Comments Top

#25 Done

Posted by Matt 2025-07-31 12:22|| 2025-07-31 12:22|| Front Page || Comments Top

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