We got a new database server. It's doing just fine (the website wouldn't be here without it). The three servers that have failed since are from 2006-2008.
I disagree. In 2006, people would visit the site and see YTMNDs that people spent time making. They were creative, funny and sometimes even thought-provoking. Now the site is filled up with utter garbage like the sites you make.
5) Hey, YTMND has this neat feature so that when you make a YTMND, it gives you a unique link (called a uniform resource locator or URL) directly to your YTMND. You can then post this on Twitter, Facebook, reddit, whatever.
YTMND isn't getting smaller because it's lacking a million dumb sharing buttons to the YTMND creation process, it's getting smaller because the community is overrun by fickle, pretentious, bitter trolls who are too busy fighting with each other over pointless bullshit to realize this used to be a fun website where people made creative stuff.
1.) What exactly do you think moderation will do? All moderators could do in the past is mark sites NSFW. What exactly is so rampantly ruining the site that requires intervention?
2.) This has been discussed at length both in news posts and on the wiki. I don't want to get into the game of using the behavior of a user, their voting habits, or anything else to change the value of votes. A vote is a vote, and that isn't going to change.
3 + 4) This is something we've discussed in the past as well, but it ultimately punishes new members of the site much more than it would stop alt-voting. Using a time-based gating system would just get people to plan out alts and using an activity-based gating system would end up spamming the site. The easiest way to remove incentive for making alts is by deleting the main accounts of people who make alts to vote, which we've been doing.
YTMND is entirely skinned, it just only has one skin. The amount of work it would take to port old styles to modern-day HTML and then to port all the front-end code to work with them, and being forced to continue to deploy changes across multiple skins far outweighs the novelty.
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YTMND isn't getting smaller because it's lacking a million dumb sharing buttons to the YTMND creation process, it's getting smaller because the community is overrun by fickle, pretentious, bitter trolls who are too busy fighting with each other over pointless bullshit to realize this used to be a fun website where people made creative stuff.
2.) This has been discussed at length both in news posts and on the wiki. I don't want to get into the game of using the behavior of a user, their voting habits, or anything else to change the value of votes. A vote is a vote, and that isn't going to change.
3 + 4) This is something we've discussed in the past as well, but it ultimately punishes new members of the site much more than it would stop alt-voting. Using a time-based gating system would just get people to plan out alts and using an activity-based gating system would end up spamming the site. The easiest way to remove incentive for making alts is by deleting the main accounts of people who make alts to vote, which we've been doing.