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  * [a]cc-d /i/ieddit 19h

       I'm back - I apologize for the absence (self.text)

  Not to divulge too many details of my personal life, but I've been in a position to where I was unable to work on ieddit for the last several days, starting when my development laptop finally died, without me having the funds to purchase a new one. And this was just the start to a rather stressful time period.
  
  Thankfully I've been donated enough parts from friends to have a functioning desktop, quite a good one actually, so I'll be setting up a dev environment soon.
  
  I apologize for the leaving you guys in the dark, I should've at least provided updates from my phone. Once I have my dev environment setup, I'll catch up on replies, and attempt to implement online image expansion today.

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  * [a]cc-d /i/ieddit 12d

       Starting multi-lingual support soon, any native speakers here? (self.text)

  Hey, after thinking about it, I have come to the conclusion that broadening the ieddit cultural audience, and providing an alternative for communities that exist outside of the angosphere, can only be a good thing. Perhaps there are communities which exist that I've never even heard of which would benefit greatly from an transparent, uncensored platform like ieddit.
  
  Unfortunately I only speak english. If anybody here natively speaks (or is fluent in) a language of a culture in which there is a need for a platform like this, and are willing to volunteer their time, please send me a message on the site or join the discord and we'll start discussing the best way to go about doing this. I'm going to be working on 3rd party bug bounties for the rest of tonight, but starting tomorrow I'm available the entire weekend to go about implementing this.
  
  Also, the next feature planned is (optional, client-side) inline image/video expansion in comments and self-text posts.
  
  This week I've been focusing mainly on bug bounties (and learning C). I was able to find a few bugs, the bountys of which should hopefully provide funding for the site for a good while.
  
  In terms of platform activity, I think this place is going to remain relatively low volume until reddit fucks up again (or if somebody with a large audience advocates for ieddit). This time, the platform is developed enough to work as a serious alternative, all that is needed is a good opportunity to make people aware of it.
  
  Active development has not stopped, I've just had to focus on things which provide me a revenue stream IRL since I spent a couple of months working on ieddit daily.
  
  Thanks to everybody that has been hanging around and lurking <3, hopefully we'll get a chance soon to help improve the internet.

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       KARABASH...Russia's Toxic Town (www.youtube.com)

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       ‘There’s something terribly wrong’: Americans are dying young at alarming rates (www.washingtonpost.com)

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       Swampletics - Focusing the Six (#24) (www.youtube.com)

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       McDonalds is putting RFID chips in cups to limit refills. (i.imgur.com)

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       they really put some effort into making powershell look badass lmao (files.catbox.moe)

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       Yasenevo , South-West Moscow (i.redd.it)

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       List of types of C memory management from the book I'm reading (files.catbox.moe)

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  * [a]cc-d /i/ieddit 19d

       Things finally are starting to look decent, there are only a few areas (like mod control, user) that still need substantial work. (self.text)

  The site is deader than ever, but from a design/programming standpoint, it's in the best shape it's been in since the project's inception in septermber.
  
  Outside of a few areas such as mod control, user settings, messages, etc, the current design is fairly close to complete. The remaining areas left will take several days of dedicated work to make them look non-terrible, but even now are mostly functional. There may still be some css changes and such, but the general site layout will not change. Adding features for the purpose of adding features is not something that will happen, mainly because 1. I refuse to bloat up the site to the point where it's even 1/4 as bloated as reddit and 2. I have no profit incentive to do so :)
  
  I am going to spend the weekend learning C, but afterwards if I keep up the current pace of development, I'll be able to finish the site completely in the next few weeks.
  
  Once the next exodus of reddit users happen, the site will be ready, and be in a completed state this time.
  
  One area that may change substantially though after site development is completed is some feature(s) which distinguish users who have donated. The goal is to allow a patreon-like donation structure to be setup. Any donation-linked features will be minimal, probably limited exclusively to user profiles, and will not significantly effect the site.
  
  Example of some features would be: the ability to upload an image to show on a user profile page, the ability to bypass captchas if I'm forced to turn some form of captcha on again, api keys with certain rate limit restrictions disabled, etc. Basically, features that would have a large amount of abuse potential, but can be offered to a limited subset of users who will not abuse them.
  
  Anyway, for the 1.5 people left on this site, that's the current state of things. Mention the site anywhere you see reddit alternatives mentioned, but I believe we will have to wait until the next reddit exodus to reach a substantial amount of users again.
  
  All donations will of course be listed in a public monthly report along with operating costs for transparency reasons, and will go exclusively to funding the site's operation.

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  * [a]cc-d /i/ieddit 19d

       Anybody have any ideas for getting users back? (self.text)

  I knew the flask-session bug had killed the site weeks ago by looking at traffic logs, but I did not expect things to become THIS desolate.
  
  Any ideas on how to accumulate users are welcome. I don't want to spam with bot posts, 1 legitimate user post is worth more than 100 bot posts.
  
  On the plus side, programming/design wise the site is currently probably the best state it's ever been in, with all the core features completed and functional. If I had known the project was going to require this amount of work, I would've did many things differently from the start, including not advertising the site when it was in such an early stage.
  
  I don't really want to spam... I guess the best way to attract users is to mention ieddit anywhere relevant whenever the discussion of reddit alternatives come up? When a mass exodus happened from reddit last month, the site attracted a fairly substantial amount of users, but was lacking so many features that the majority did not stay. When something like that happens again, everything will be ready this time.

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       Is This Europe Or Asia?! | Republic Of Kalmykia (www.youtube.com)

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       The Loneliest Planet (www.youtube.com)

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• [a]cc-d 13h parent

  You get what you pay for! :)

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• cc-d 13d parent

  man this pic is a year old, my hair has been long at several points since then, and have 20% less bodymass than in that picture.
  
  it just happened to be the picture i used everywhere when i was trying to do that whole 'social media' thing last year.

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• cc-d 14d parent

  American life expectancy dropping this perceptibly, for several years in a row now, is historical. Every other european country has experienced life expectancy rates on par with recent trends, this phenomenon is something uniquely american.
  
  And yet nobody is talking about it. America is sick.

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• [a]cc-d 14d parent

  nah

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• [a]cc-d 15d parent

  Right now, the default sorting method for posts is literally identical to the reddit 'hot' algorithm, with all non-nsfw posts showing up on the index page.
  
  The algorithm doesn't really work well with low volume.

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• [a]cc-d 15d parent

  yessir
  
  I actually ended up not even using malloc, or even pointers, in the C work I ended up doing, I way over prepared knowledge wise for what ended up being required lol

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• cc-d 15d parent

  some real dystopian shit isn't it?
  
  i realize now why they were so desperate to replace the old level-based drink machines.

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• [a]cc-d 16d parent

  This is how things were implemented originally, but as site development continued, having to support two different stylesheets became unwieldy.
  
  Once the design is finalized, which it's fairly close to being now outside of a few areas, the option will be offered again.

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• [a]cc-d 16d parent

  So the idea would be users would congregate in communities outside of the control of the power abusers, and use these communities to draw attention to the problem. Once admin attention is drawn, there are a few different ways to offer a feature which allows (overwhelming) democratic consensus to be expressed, regardless of the wishes of the hostile moderators.
  
  Not sure exactly how it would be implemented, there is a lot of gray area, but there are certain scenarios such as sub takeovers that I would feel fairly confident acting upon.

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• [a]cc-d 16d parent

  This is a good idea, I've discussed this with people on discord, and I think it's one of the best routes forward.
  
  At the time, the site layout and templates were not nearly finalized enough for internationalization, but I believe things might be stable enough to start focusing on that now.
  
  This may very well be the next priority.

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• [a]cc-d 16d parent

  Make bots, and post a ton of content. I am really not talking about spam. I am talking about building so many stories that they start appearing in Google searches.

  
  This was my view initially as well, but after actually writing a bot which does such a thing, I realized it's really difficult to find a balance between legitimate users and bots when it comes to site interaction. At current traffic levels, any bot posts at all completely drown out legitimate users, and it makes using the site pretty awful.
  
  

  Also, we really need to invent a new kind of concept (maybe in the form of subieddits) for Ieddit which is exclusive to Ieddit.

  Any ideas are welcome.

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• [a]cc-d 16d parent

  You are guaranteed increased traffic as 2020 rolls around and censorship on other platforms increases.

  
  Agreed. This time, everything will be ready.
  
  Just today, I found it extremely frustrating trying to use the kratom subreddit to find a decent kratom vendom due to reddit's asinine rules regarding 'sourcing'. If the kratom discussion was happening here, this would not have been a problem.
  
  It would be better for everybody involved for such discussion to take place here, people just have to be aware of the platform.

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• [a]cc-d 16d parent

  the bug happened like this:
  
  1. 2 users send a request to the server within the same time window
  2. flask-sessions assigns BOTH REQUESTS the same backend server session
  3. flask-sessions then, completely ignoring client-side cookie, overwrites client session cookie to match server session it THINKS the request should have
  4. BOTH users now have the same client session cookie set
  
  it took me forever to figure out what was going on, but yeah, that's why. flask-sessions isn't thread safe apparently under certain conditions.

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• [a]cc-d 18d parent

  you're telling me

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