How much would a forum the size of FP in its current state cost to host anyway?
Would Notpunch allow us to host our own images like we can on New punch? It's convenient, but it seems like a very justifiable cut to reduce hosting concerns.
Yeah I don't mind axing the image upload feature here. It's easier for me to format larger posts with images through another URL anyways.
Its very likely gonna be a cut feature, personally rarely use it but thats more because I've got everything sync'd to upload to my own server.
But the end goal with this forum Inacio is making is to make it as stress free on the server it'll be running on as possible and use as little resources as possible, so the upload feature while neat, likely will get axed.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I fucking demand that is installed imas the Funny rating. Give that emote the respect he deserves.
Is the project still taking contributors? The repo was private the last time I checked the link.
guaranteed
implemented another one of those ideas i have when i'm asleep
https://streamable.com/rcz6x
actually really happy with this, feels much better to browse the site
redpill me on that vs patreon
Patreon also takes a large chunk from pledges, both from the pledger and the person running the Patreon.
Never heard of Librapay before, it looks like its basically the opensource equiv of Patreon slapped together with a Bootstrap frontend.
liberapay seems pretty nice
Any chance of adding the ticker/read/popular?
yes, but as usual no timeframes on that yet
Whether it be Liberapay or Patreon, I'm eager to hear some estimations on how much this is going to cost, and how much users will need to pitch in to get this off the ground. I understand that kind of stuff is probably daunting and still a fair ways off, but I'm already 100% committed to making some sort of donation to this new forum, and paying a small sum monthly would work fine for me.
I know there are plenty of users who are just as eager to donate as I am, but I wonder if a poll on who is willing would be helpful to see what funds you might be able to work with when you get this whole thing going.
Also as side note I'm really curious to see where this takes us. Newpunch was meant to be this experimental modernization of the forum system that garry just sort of gave up on - I understand that Notpunch is really meant to be a haven for us facepunchers but I can see it easily becoming an experimental, modernized forum depending on where Inacio takes it.
as i think that we won't go past 100 [active?] users for a long time, i'm honestly just thinking of throwing it on a $10/mo vps.
the test server is a fucking t2.micro and it handled some pretty mean abuse just fine, so a $10 vps would probably do just fine for a good while.
if we do get a vps i'll try to have an image server, too, so we can have users upload avatars instead of just linking them.
i just really don't want any of you guys spending your money on this before it's more than just a waste of money idk
As long as we're not chucking more than £50 a month collectively during the first few months, I don't think people mind so much. Any more and yeah we'd be running before walking. I'll do my part and chuck in a fiver a month to keep this place going if it's community driven.
It's not like we can't upgrade things down the line if we need to(?).
yeah it can easily be upgraded. no need for overkill
I'm not sure what would fall under "this style" but here's 5 million years in illustrator.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1653/ecfe8e19-c507-4ef6-9d24-62ad8fd72e6c/oast_funny.svg
I also remember someone ask for the Sympathy emote, that's already pretty close to the style if I make the colours consistent, does this look ok too?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1653/42b3a150-b0ee-4d81-a9dc-388cf6cbb1dd/sympathy.svg
@Inacio the discord invite doesn't appear to be valid anymore - not sure if that's intentional or what but wanted to check out these forums
welp beaten to it I guess lol but here's my attempt too anyway, franken-stitched directly from those icons you linked Inacio, with the lights in their eyes extinguished as requested... also tried to match the angles to this lil'
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/145721/7d2fef25-75b4-4bf5-86a7-635ad249312d/vface.png
The colors and general art style look perfectly fine to me, for what it's worth, although I haven't too closely observed the other icons yet.
https://discord.gg/9kKkMjD
idk why it stopped working
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/326417/d7d0b6f3-d85c-47bb-aa29-c13c710bfaf2/image.png
one of the most important features for the forums to actually be usable is in: unread posts
Don't forget the long lost feature, the ability to mark as unread.
yeah its planned, will add the button for it (which is all it requires really ) when i have some time!
I thought those were fucking achievements, imagine having those on a forum