bikegremlin
bikegremlin
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- About Me:
- Relja Novović a.k.a. Bike Gremlin - https://www.bikegremlin.com/about/
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Static sucks for changes and rewrites/updates. A dynamic CMS was invented for a reason. Auto updates also come with site breaking risks. Pros and cons.
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(Quote) Rubbish from this century... :)
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(Quote) Old diesels (like mine LOL) run on vegetable oil just fine. Some hunters used that because it is now cheaper than diesel fuel in Serbia. :) Popcorn smell is a nice extra. :)
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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 o…
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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…