Forum architecture

[StuM]

Originally Posted by Franziska

Well, 300baud, that was lightning speed, in our days we used pigeons to send little paper notes who occasionally reached their target [emoji1787]

I guess it depends on how many characters you could get on your little paper note.


You should have used a "memory stick" with the pigeon. A South African IT company showed that pigeons were faster than the internet over ADSL .
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...5885PM20090909

[dannc]

Originally Posted by Franziska

Well, 300baud, that was lightning speed, in our days we used pigeons to send little paper notes who occasionally reached their target [emoji1787]..

Originally Posted by StuM

I guess it depends on how many characters you could get on your little paper note.

You should have used a "memory stick" with the pigeon. A South African IT company showed that pigeons were faster than the internet over ADSL .
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...5885PM20090909

I could not find the article I recently read, I think it was in a magazine. You know, the ancient technology using paper to show print and photos.

The article was about using carrier pigeons to securely carry messages during a time of global conflict. The pigeons would be immune from cyber attack and would be in areas where physical attack on the pigeons would be minimal. Using an encrypted USB drive, they could transfer quite a bit of information at the speed of pigeon.

Later,
Dan

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by CaptTom

I look at it as a for-profit company which offers a service to volunteer organizations like CF. Volunteers use the platform for free to create this forum. CF doesn't have to hire IT staff and pay for hosting on a server farm.

In concept, I'm not opposed to ad-supported content. I'm not even all that worried about tracking me to better select which ads to show, although I admit I've made it a bit of a hobby to thwart that.

Without singling out this forum software, overall I think advertising on the internet has gotten out of hand. The relentless grab for users' eyeballs has resulted in annoying, loud, flashing, unstoppable, and generally disruptive ads.

While respectful ads which do not distract from the content I'm interested in would be fine, I'm forced to resort to ad blockers to make many sites tolerable.

This isn't good for users or advertisers. Imagine you're paying to get your message out to people who might enjoy your product or service. Do you want to get buried underneath all that annoying crap? Do you have any idea whether your message is getting through, or being blocked? When everyone is forced to used ad blockers, what will happen to free content?

Agreed on the ads, which is why I use ad and tracker blockers everywhere I can on the internet, including here on CF.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by StuM

It's part of a for-profit commercial enterprise.

Social Knowledge, L.L.C

They have about 20 employees and a multi-million dollar annual revenue according to publicly available information.


(I'd guess primarily ad revenue. Remember, if it's free - you are the product )

CF is one of the 55 forums owned by SK.
https://www.socialknowledge.com/assorted/

[Drunkonwatch]

Sesame credit hope my posts don’t affect my insurance rates!

[MicHughV]

For the life of me, I don't know why the mods aren't given some or other remuneration.

They are on here 24/7, and let's face it, keeping a thread on track is sometimes like herding cats...my hat is off to them, and that they do this out of the goodness of their heart is all the more impressive.

I gotta agree with Mike though...advertising has crept into everything little thing these days. It's mind boggling to think about how intrusive ads have become.