Hello all,
As I am sure most of you have noticed, I have taken a more hands-off approach as of late, and focusing more time and effort on the site infrastructure. In the last few years, we've transferred from decent trustworthy hosting to now hosting ourselves in a different country. We have done lots of backend updates (moved to newer PHP versions, MySQL versions, Nginx, etc).
Now, I am here to talk to you about our latest updates:
Dual-encrypted backups: We backup to 2 separates sources hourly, and encrypt all of our backups. It is worth noting, we have not had to restore a backup in quite some time, but it never hurt to be cautious.
We have updated to the lastest Invison Power Suite software, 4.3 . This now allows us to have these new features:
New payment methods for subscriptions/donations: Google Pay, Apple Pay, Alipay, and the traditional credit cards and BitcoinPay are still available.
Better VIP system for those that use it.
Overall performance improvements.
Better search system using ElasticSearch.
Some new emojii (I know you were all waiting on this).
More reaction types (upvotes, downvotes, and emojii that count as reputation points).
Posts that have received lots of positive reputation are now automatically highlighted.
We brought all our server software and kernel patches up to the latest versions, which includes various improvements (mostly security).
Up until yesterday, our server had an uptime of over 365 days, something I personally as a nerd am proud of ?
We only reported a few of you to the NSA.... (relax, I am just checking your attention span. I mean, why are you even reading at this point bro ?)
We added some more bugs to annoy you. ?
Enyby is mad at me, send help ?
Things to look forward to in the future:
Multiple server hosting/load balancing. This should take the load off of our one server, while also enabling us to deliver content and downloads to you much faster.
VIP rework/update. VIP is no longer about hidden/restricted content. It is more about continually supporting the site. However, I still want to have some sweet perks for those that help us.
New logo/theme. I am currently looking for a designer to work with (if you are interested, send your portfolio along my way).
Dark theme. Implemented for VIP.
Automatic content moderation (still to be implemented). Implemented.
Here's to giving back more power to you, and less from those greedy lootboxing developers ? - d2dyno