bikegremlin
bikegremlin
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- About Me:
- Relja Novović a.k.a. Bike Gremlin - https://www.bikegremlin.com/about/
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(Quote) It's worse. Gamified crap.
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(Quote) You are mixing the nonsense platform that sucks (Discord) with a different forum software.
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(Quote) Dealing with ads, as a janitor, takes time and effort. Making a deal, confirming payment, designing or even "just" placing a designed advert. Removing once paid time has passed - and checking when that is. Sounds like not much but…
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There is no way to make everyone happy. Yes, adverts suck. But sites also cost. Many people won't or even can't pay anything, while still not liking the ads (perfectly legit stance). On the other hand, auto-ads from the likes of Google or Mediavin…
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(Quote) Give it time for Google Ads. Also track traffic changes for the first few months of advert introduction - I'm curious. :)
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(Quote) Based on my experience so far: Give it at least a month. Algorithm needs time to figure out what ad(vertiser)s to connect the site with. Even with my conservative Adsense setup (no over page and lowest advert frequency settings) revenue sh…
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For what it's worth: Namecrane's Cranemail email service seems to be working fine - they've fixed the daily outage problem.
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How much storage do you need? Must you use API? Hetzner Storage Box works nicely with Rclone and it is quite cheap. No fuss FTP upload and download if needed. Fixed monthly price no matter what.
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(Quote) This. It's a legendary site that was a role model and an inspiration for my own site(s). Now people ask AI or ask on Reddit for info/answers that AI scraped from there.
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(Quote) Folks are on social networks and "AI" - info sites (like sheldonbrown.com for bikes or anandtech for computers) are now just used for bot scraping and practically no one visits those anymore. Even if you want to, Google is making …
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(Quote) Ko-fi is also cool and does let you set recurring memberships too (along with one-time donations)! :) https://ko-fi.com/bikegremlin/tiers Patreon, on the other hand, will not let you set one-time donations and can even flag your account i…
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(Quote) Automated ads are still a lot more stable than support payments. Also, in a way, it is corporations and companies paying for it - as opposed to taking money from users. Lowest in-page ad density setting for AdSense, without any additional o…
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My thoughts aloud - no illusion that it's the wisest, just the best I can think of at the time of writing. (Quote) Yes, bikegremlin.net forum shows ads only to guests - no ads or even analytics tracking for logged in users. That covers some of the …
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Solomon's solution would be to look into that site, and if nothing else, see about a caching plugin like LiteSpeed with a compatible host. Cloudflare bot protection could also make a big difference in reducing server load. How much storage does the…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxi0ETwDvws
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(Quote) Haven't played with those for ages, but last time I did, "Ultimate Member" was all the rage and I love the pun. :)
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Countless people were (are still) praising EU & Germany with GDPR as a holy grail... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1Jwyxd4tE
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(Quote) I've done the full circle - more than once. It takes time to find, configure and figure out an alternative CMS. It also takes time to update your articles - if that is what you do on occasions. In those terms, WP is still unmatched. You ca…
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Stick with Wordpress and fuggedaboutit.
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(Quote) It is done - apparently - Onlyoffice ends partnership with Nextcloud and accuses the Euro Office of being just repackaged Onlyoffice code: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/03/partnership-with-nextcloud-suspended Edit, the Euro Office a…
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(Quote) That is the best date for firing people - and for launching new products. In case of any serious backlash, you can always sey you were joking. :)
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(Quote) I think you are just one of the many. :) I started with one of the EIG-owned alternatives that my friend got on some huge discount (3-year plan, yes LOL). (Quote) "On April 1st, one should not trust what they read on the Internet... …
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(Quote) True blue!