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I already feared a bugged feature instead! ;-)
With a single switch of a button lowendtalk could enable HTTP2 in the CloudFlare control panel.
This would speed up pages with a lot of images and graphics.
I think this is very important because the tons of gifs @Mun throws at us every day.
[GOOD] I'd like to see the "jnguyen" banned because that was cool!
[GOOD] "Ban jnguyen because this community doesn't need him.
[GOOD] "That recent change you made is not having the best effect, I think."
[GOOD] "User jnguyed should be banned, why don't you keep it that way."
No, I don't.
Well, we're not looking forward to hear more about this kid. Thanks.
Nothing personal MPK, but this was in the OP.
First of all, I want to thank the team for donating their time and mental efforts to keeping this community running smooth.
I have a small suggestions for LowEndBox.
Since @jarland took over in writing the posts on LEB I have noticed a pretty big change in content and information about new offers published. Now a days we are seeing a simple “XXXXX sent in an offer, well, here is whats on special today” one liner kinda thing.
I used to love reading a little about the company, their hardware, the little “what makes us special” line and just general info when @mpkossen used to post in the offer.
All the information in theory would be a copy/pasta from the LEB submission template as seen here: https://lowendbox.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/8000013511-offer-submission-template
so in theory I wouldn’t think it should be too much added efforts to have more content-rich offers on LEB
Example of typical offer see now a days:
XXXXXXXX from XXXXXXX sent us some KVM and OpenVZ offers. This is their fourth offer on the site, the first was in March of last year. Feel free to share your experiences with them in the comments, I’d love to hear how they’re doing. Let’s see what they gave us here.Here is an example of the @mpkossen typical offer with a good
type offers which I loved reading every time: https://lowendbox.com/blog/hostus-7month-2gb-openvz-leb-exclusive-in-hong-kong-and-sydney-and-more/ which has a good 2- 3 paragraphs of information.
tl;dr I would like a little more written on the LEB offers, especially the information of the LEB offer submissions be used in the actual offers published.
EDIT: Fixed some typos
Quote plug-in is still broken, so since you're on a fixing spree @jarland ;-)
Hint: it's in a regular expression somewhere and it likely has to do with line-endings.
let us not post area offers solution please?
@sysadmin Common, do it! Switch the HTTP2-switch on in the CF controlpanel!
OK. I did it.
All hail the SysAdmin!
Suggestion: Create a new category "Newsletters" or "Press releases" where people must post threads like this or this
Better yet, make a rule against providers posting their own newsletters or press releases. If a third party doesn't believe it's interesting enough to share with the community, it shouldn't be shared with the community.
I think a generic "Provider announcements" would fit best. Everything the providers want to post regarding their company (except offers) should be posted there.
Yeah, I don't think we want this place to turn into WHT with the parade of "press releases".
In fairness @gsrdgrdghd that PR was posted in the providers section.
I think we'll watch to see if this becomes a problem.
Place a link to the support ticket system where one can easily find it, e.g. here:
Sounds reasonable enough.
Should be done.
its there, maybe highlight it too? some people appear to have difficulties reading things.
There.
Bold and an arrow
I bet some people still miss it.
You just read my mind.
Could we have it blinking? Just to be on the safe side...
marquee.Why not change Thanks button to 'Upvote'? I believe most of us hit thanks as upvote!
Ban ALL AFF links!
Most other IT related forums already banned them as there are way too much people just spamming them without contributing anything useful at all.
Reddit 2.0? but yes, I agree with this but won't press that button... until it's changed to "Upvote"
Specifically, ban @Traffic, we can't have that flooding LET!!!
I don't have a problem with them in sigs. In posts, maybe - it can become a game of "who answers the thread first".
I usually remove aff links in posts if they're not labeled as aff links.
If someone had an aff link in their sig, and was posting a lot of nonsense "thanks" "good idea" "like it" etc. posts just to spam their sig, we'd notice and correct...I think @jarland's philosophy is to keep the rules as light as possible rather than try to write a rule for everything. We don't want people becoming forum rules lawyers.
Banning aff-links sounds great. Second this...
It would be nice if there was a way to link to a specific comment.
It would be nice if the suggestions thread was easier to find.
There is. Copy the timestamp link, it directs the visitor to the comment.
Bookmark/star it.
Ah....thanks.