The Official Spurstalk Servers Need To Improve Thread

[Dejounte]

If the admin is still viewing this forum from time to time, I don’t think he’s aware of how shitty this forum is running. So I’m making this thread so y’all can express your distaste for how the website is running. And I don’t know, maybe it will lead to an alternative solution or the admin actually fixes it. Because holy fuck damn.

[scott]

Time for a Private Subreddit? Discord Server?

[Joseph Kony]

surprised this place is even still running tbh. timvp has really mailed it in the last season+

[RC_Drunkford]

It takes forever to load. Is TimVP still alive?

[heyheymymy]

Waiting for my post to load on Spurs Talk








https://i.giphy.com/14wHfdoQlF4p3i.webp

[scott]

Site suddenly working amazingly :lol

Just need a daily complaint thread so that someone remembers to feed the hamster

[Ice009]

Perfect timing as when the front page was loading up for me a few minutes ago I was saying "Why is this site so fucking slow!"

It's one of the slowest sites I go to and it's getting very frustrating.

[lefty20]

Reminds of the good old days with dial-up internet.

[CGD]

In all seriousness, what other forums do people post on? Is it really just Reddit?

[Dejounte]

Site suddenly working amazingly :lol

Just need a daily complaint thread so that someone remembers to feed the hamster

NOPE, still running like shit

need to let it run well for a full day before posting this

[Obstructed_View]

Most users online ever was two weeks ago at 3 AM.

Maybe the servers aren't the problem.

[Robz4000]

Most users online ever was two weeks ago at 3 AM.

Maybe the servers aren't the problem.

Prolly the Political Forum getting the site ddos'd tbh.

[Dex]

I will pitch in on three more hamsters.

[scott]

Prolly the Political Forum getting the site ddos'd tbh.

This site would be better in a lot of ways if the Political Forum were just severed and sent to some dark corner of the web none of us need to see.

[KingKev]

This thread is disrespectful to timvp and his widow Kori. RIP.

Working fine for me though but linking youtube vids is my guess for interruptions.

[tim_duncan_fan]

Could also do for a moderation cleanup of the 4chan and Stormfront-esque posters, too.

[ChumpDumper]

I think it's currently 4000 bots learning shitty takes and inside jokes for ChatGPT. Hopefully sometime this fall we'll be fucking up some middle school kid's essay with our created content.

[T Park]

This thread is disrespectful to timvp and his widow Kori. RIP.

Working fine for me though but linking youtube vids is my guess for interruptions.

What the hell????

[exstatic]

What the hell????

It’s kind of a running gag.

[Dex]

What the hell????


It’s kind of a running gag.

Yeah, it started off with someone saying "is timvp still alive?" because he wasn't posting Game Grades in the forum anymore, and now just SpursTalk doing its thing by running a joke into the ground tbh imo

[bigzak25]

Where is Slomo? He could fix it.

Hey kori and timvp, where did Slomo go?

[exstatic]

Where is Slomo? He could fix it.

Hey kori and timvp, where did Slomo go?

Wrong question: where did Kori and timvp go?

[bigzak25]

Wrong question: where did Kori and timvp go?

LJs last activity was 2 weeks ago. Maybe they are just on break or vacation since it's the off-season.

[jeebus]

lol no one knows who owns the site anymore, no one knows who the mods are, no one knows who the site admin is, no one knows where TimAI is at.... There's enough of us on here to pool funds and buy the domain and run it ourselves, and to hire a PI to capture Mono to string him up on the Tree of Woe.

[scott]

As soon as Kori or TimGPT can remember the admin password, you know they are cancelling the auto payment to the servers

[bigzak25]

Kori and Timvp will be here...it's like in Superman 2 when Zod is causing all kinds of shit.

They'll be here and they'll get it fixed.

I'm thinking their busy with parent life or on vacation


Either way, they deserve their well earned time away and they'll be back soon I'm sure.

If all else fails, we can get a group of solid individuals together from the site and offer to buy it. I'll just charge a minimal 2% facilitator fee...lol

[ambchang]

Grateful to the hamsters for the last few days. The site can actually load despite the spurs jumping 6 spots!

Deserves a treat.

[Dejounte]

Timvp comes back

writes his articles

people celebrate his return

and the servers are still shit

[Cardinal]

Need a major upgrade before the season starts for sure

[weeks]

can we chip in for a new wheel? or at least a new hamster?
i remember some forums used to offer a paid premium membership with some perks back in the day. maybe that could be the answer. god knows some of you spend enough time here

[Guru of Nothing]

Always willing to contribute a few dollars, especially after scrolling reddit.

[CorrectCrusader]

I like the lack of moderation here, it reminds me of pre internet centralization. The performance issues need fixed though.

[Dejounte]

Suddenly the servers are acting fast again. It’s like someone just added wd40 and made everything ok

[TheDoctor]

I like the lack of moderation here, it reminds me of pre internet centralization. The performance issues need fixed though.

I mean, it’s been quite some time (20 years+). Probably the majority of us are 35+ y/o now. Meaning, the lack of moderation is not as necessary as it was in the beginning. Anywaaays, the performance definitely needs some love. The “chaos” might feel fun and nostalgic but the uploading time does not ��

[ffadicted]

How much to crowd fund this honestly. I'm willing and able, though no clue how to actually do it so someone else would have to take that on lol

[LeBowen]

How much to crowd fund this honestly. I'm willing and able, though no clue how to actually do it so someone else would have to take that on lol

It's not about crowdfunding, it's about site ownership that's seemingly MIA.
Top tier forum hosting is like $300-500 per year, that's nothing considering the traffic spurstalk has.

If this place indeed goes down, I'd prefer us to get together and get a new forum running instead of using a subreddit.

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

Bootlickers begging for babysitting from our Jazz fan overlords

[scott]

lol @ this site's servers

[tonight...you]

It's not about crowdfunding, it's about site ownership that's seemingly MIA.
Top tier forum hosting is like $300-500 per year, that's nothing considering the traffic spurstalk has.

If this place indeed goes down, I'd prefer us to get together and get a new forum running instead of using a subreddit.
Gonna have to use a subreddit to get this thing off the ground.
I'm down.

[scott]

Gonna have to use a subreddit to get this thing off the ground.
I'm down.

The subreddit is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

We could at least use the subreddit to discuss setting up a real forum somewhere, when this site eventually bites the dust for good.

[tonight...you]

The subreddit is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

We could at least use the subreddit to discuss setting up a real forum somewhere, when this site eventually bites the dust for good.
Sent my request. Thank you.

[ChumpDumper]

The subreddit is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

We could at least use the subreddit to discuss setting up a real forum somewhere, when this site eventually bites the dust for good.

What are you talking about?

There's one already set up by an ST legend and ready to go:

https://spurstalk.boards.net

[John B]

I take it as a break from all the bitching :lol

[scott]

What are you talking about?

There's one already set up by an ST legend and ready to go:

https://spurstalk.boards.net

I always forget about this gem.

But seriously... can we get a message to timvp and Kori to at least let us crowdfund some site infrastructure improvements?

[SpursFan86]

I’m not familiar with website hosting…so how did things just randomly start working perfectly again after being total shit the past few days? Intuitively I would think that means timvp or someone did something to help resolve the issues, but is that not the case? Is it just pure randomness? Hard to imagine the website traffic suddenly dropped off so hard that the server works perfectly at the moment.

[scott]

I’m not familiar with website hosting…so how did things just randomly start working perfectly again after being total shit the past few days? Intuitively I would think that means timvp or someone did something to help resolve the issues, but is that not the case? Is it just pure randomness? Hard to imagine the website traffic suddenly dropped off so hard that the server works perfectly at the moment.

Whenever things go to shit I always assume its in some small (or large) part due to whatever shenanigans happen in the political forum.

[exstatic]

Whenever things go to shit I always assume its in some small (or large) part due to whatever shenanigans happen in the political forum.
They should just dump everything except The Club and the two Spurs forums. The Political forum is nothing but a cesspool.

[Leetonidas]

What are you talking about?

There's one already set up by an ST legend and ready to go:

https://spurstalk.boards.net

:lol forgot about that place

[tonight...you]

What are you talking about?

There's one already set up by an ST legend and ready to go:

https://spurstalk.boards.net
dude

[Mugen]

https://media.network47.org/Max%20Headroom/Gifs/Max/glitch.gif

[scott]

They should just dump everything except The Club and the two Spurs forums. The Political forum is nothing but a cesspool.

tbh, do we even need Think Tank anymore other than as an archive? Just make that one read only, tbh.

[BacktoBasics]

It's not about crowdfunding, it's about site ownership that's seemingly MIA.
Top tier forum hosting is like $300-500 per year, that's nothing considering the traffic spurstalk has.

If this place indeed goes down, I'd prefer us to get together and get a new forum running instead of using a subreddit.

I don’t know why they wouldn’t hand this over to people that care. Or at least accept help.

Obviously I prefer that we stay here and get this place up to shape but if anyone is interested in getting together to set up a new forum I’m in.

I have money and resources that would help.

There is a ton of traffic here. We should have a forum that is running well with plenty of user friendly plugins etc.

If enough of us migrate others will follow.

[Spurs Homer]

Its not that bad…

i can post something while having coffee at 7 am….
and my post is usually posted before dinner time!

[Dejounte]

ARE THESE THE LAST DAYS OF SPURSTALK

[tonight...you]

ARE THESE THE LAST DAYS OF SPURSTALK
I've been spending time on scott emergency reddit page.

[itzsoweezee]

The subreddit is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

We could at least use the subreddit to discuss setting up a real forum somewhere, when this site eventually bites the dust for good.

I can’t even view this without downloading the app

[scott]

For those who haven't joined yet...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

Only for use during downtime. At the very least we can use it to game plan on where we go next.

I had Kori's number like 20 years ago... anyone still in contact with her so we can at least take over the operating expenses of the forum?

[scott]

I can’t even view this without downloading the app

It's private, so it probably hides it from you unless you're signed in or can sign up. It's viewable with a browser on a computer, don't know about mobile browsers.

[itzsoweezee]

I don’t know why they wouldn’t hand this over to people that care. Or at least accept help.

Obviously I prefer that we stay here and get this place up to shape but if anyone is interested in getting together to set up a new forum I’m in.

I have money and resources that would help.

There is a ton of traffic here. We should have a forum that is running well with plenty of user friendly plugins etc.

If enough of us migrate others will follow.

I’d be sad if they just let this forum die. It seems people are willing to take it over. Why not allow more people to help with site administration/maintenance?

[tonight...you]

For those who haven't joined yet...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

Only for use during downtime. At the very least we can use it to game plan on where we go next.

I had Kori's number like 20 years ago... anyone still in contact with her so we can at least take over the operating expenses of the forum?
Seriously.
MSTGA

Too soon? Doesn't roll off the tongue?
It's like MST3K, but different.

[Strategic]

I enjoy the hell outta this sight, hate for it to disappear. Now when I try to log in and it fails me I can’t help but think it’s All over. Like my fav dog died

[TheDoctor]

What are you talking about?

There's one already set up by an ST legend and ready to go:

https://spurstalk.boards.net

OGs shit :hat

[Dex]

OGs shit :hat

That is Spurstalk, not SpursTalk.

Y'all be stalkin' Spurs and doing weird shit over there

[K...]

so whats going on that during the workday its no go and comes on at night? is there literally a hamster that sleeps during our daytime or does this site get disproportionate more daytime traffic?

[scott]

so whats going on that during the workday its no go and comes on at night? is there literally a hamster that sleeps during our daytime or does this site get disproportionate more daytime traffic?

timvp's personal mission to increase labor productivity in South Texas

[taps]

What are you talking about?

There's one already set up by an ST legend and ready to go:

https://spurstalk.boards.net

:lmao

[playbonner15]

For those who haven't joined yet...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpursTalkRefugees/

Only for use during downtime. At the very least we can use it to game plan on where we go next.

I had Kori's number like 20 years ago... anyone still in contact with her so we can at least take over the operating expenses of the forum?

Good plan. Or just make a Discord channel? I for one am just visitng the r/NBASpurs sub for Spurs news

[Dod01]

I get the shakes when this site is down for too long. Been coming here since I believe the 03-04 season.

[scott]

Good plan. Or just make a Discord channel? I for one am just visitng the r/NBASpurs sub for Spurs news

I think Discord could work, but I know nothing about running one and I'm afraid it might be too "techy" for a lot of folks here to migrate to. Ideally we just get the servers here stable and the software updated.

[ChumpDumper]

so whats going on that during the workday its no go and comes on at night? is there literally a hamster that sleeps during our daytime or does this site get disproportionate more daytime traffic?Forum is hosted on a Mint Mobile phone so data is deprioritized at busy times.

[TheDoctor]

That is Spurstalk, not SpursTalk.

Y'all be stalkin' Spurs and doing weird shit over there

You can call it weird all you want dog but someone’s gotta check on Tim Duncan’s dreads appointments like it’s the Zapruder film.

[John B]

It’s all cutewizards forwarded YouTube videos tbh :lol

[Ice009]

I think Discord could work, but I know nothing about running one and I'm afraid it might be too "techy" for a lot of folks here to migrate to. Ideally we just get the servers here stable and the software updated.

I have used discord a little bit, but wouldn't mind how to learn using it. That would make me want to learn to use it if Spurstalk went down and that was the alternative.

[NASpurs]

Did this site have a live chat or was it SR? Maybe both had them. Anyway the discord talk reminds me of using the live chat during games

[Ice009]

Did this site have a live chat or was it SR? Maybe both had them. Anyway the discord talk reminds me of using the live chat during games

This site definitely used to have a live chat. I used to talk to a few members years ago on it after playoff games in the TD era. Not sure if he's still around, but Sean Cagney give me a shout out if you're still here under a different username?

[Dex]

We also used to have cool arcade games and a forum for the Pistons and...a bunch of stuff that honestly would not help this forum function better tbh.

Shoutout to whoever the old Arcade winners were :king

Seriously though, the owners of this site are doing all of this out of their own time and mostly out of their own pocket, so maybe y'all should calm down a bit during the dog days of summer

[Dejounte]

We also used to have cool arcade games and a forum for the Pistons and...a bunch of stuff that honestly would not help this forum function better tbh.

Shoutout to whoever the old Arcade winners were :king

Seriously though, the owners of this site are doing all of this out of their own time and mostly out of their own pocket, so maybe y'all should calm down a bit during the dog days of summer

that last paragraph of glazing is why nothing gets done. This isnt just a summer thing, it’s gradually getting worse. This website was literally down for nine hours. There is no telling that months from now the website could be down for longer than that because there is no communication. That’s a sign of no appreciation for the people who use it. The community makes spurstalk, not the other way around. If spurstalk doesn’t respect its community enough to improve its environment, it will leave.

[tonight...you]

that last paragraph of glazing is why nothing gets done. This isnt just a summer thing, it’s gradually getting worse. This website was literally down for nine hours. There is no telling that months from now the website could be down for longer than that because there is no communication. That’s a sign of no appreciation for the people who use it. The community makes spurstalk, not the other way around. If spurstalk doesn’t respect its community enough to improve its environment, it will leave.
hear, hear

[exstatic]

Probably unpopular, but I used the Contact link on the forum selection bar, and suggested that they turn off search again. In a 22 year old forum with likely millions of posts running 22 year old software, search will bog you down in a major way. Other suggestions were to limit functionality of guests, or possibly archive off more older posts.

[lefty]

Time for a Private Subreddit? Discord Server?

[Ice009]

We also used to have cool arcade games and a forum for the Pistons and...a bunch of stuff that honestly would not help this forum function better tbh.

Shoutout to whoever the old Arcade winners were :king

Seriously though, the owners of this site are doing all of this out of their own time and mostly out of their own pocket, so maybe y'all should calm down a bit during the dog days of summer

Didn't realize there was arcade games. Wasn't there also a Kings forum (if so, what was the reason for the Kings forum?)?

[Guru of Nothing]

usenet is good enough for me.

[Robz4000]

Over 12k users and rising currently, and the most ever was around 17k a week ago. Site is/has definitely been getting ddos'd tbh.

[tonight...you]

I'm cool with Discord. It's a nice app.

[Ice009]

Over 12k users and rising currently, and the most ever was around 17k a week ago. Site is/has definitely been getting ddos'd tbh.

Darn, that is a ton of users. Where do you see how many there are?

[Robz4000]

Darn, that is a ton of users. Where do you see how many there are?

Bottom of the Forums page.

[RC_Drunkford]

TimVP is the Gregg Popovich of online forums. Let‘s just keep doing everything the way we did it in 2005

[NASpurs]

TimVP is the Gregg Popovich of online forums. Let‘s just keep doing everything the way we did it in 2005

Reminds me when the Spurs were still playing "Y'all Ready for This" still in 2003. This forum is still on version 4 of vBulletin which hasn't been supported for almost ten years now.

"In late 2017, a post by Technical Support Lead, Wayne Luke, confirmed that vBulletin 3 and vBulletin 4 were now considered to be "End of Life" software, with no further development of the series planned."

vBulletin 4 is "Y'all Ready for This".

[tonight...you]

Reminds me when the Spurs were still playing "Y'all Ready for This" still in 2003. This forum is still on version 4 of vBulletin which hasn't been supported for almost ten years now.

"In late 2017, a post by Technical Support Lead, Wayne Luke, confirmed that vBulletin 3 and vBulletin 4 were now considered to be "End of Life" software, with no further development of the series planned."

vBulletin 4 is "Y'all Ready for This".
Thanks. Now that stupid ass song is stuck in my head.

[LeBowen]

Probably unpopular, but I used the Contact link on the forum selection bar, and suggested that they turn off search again. In a 22 year old forum with likely millions of posts running 22 year old software, search will bog you down in a major way. Other suggestions were to limit functionality of guests, or possibly archive off more older posts.

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

This is how I open Spurstalk these days. I don't ever go outside this subforum, no need to.
Everything else should be archived and as you said search should be disabled.

I think botting/ddos is the issue because how else to explain the site working perfectly at some hours and then going down randomly.
It was fine during the draft when the number of actual humans browsing it was the highest.

[Ice009]

Bottom of the Forums page.

OK, thanks. I just went there. I never go to that page. Usually just open the forum with the page Lebowen mentioned in his post below.


https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

This is how I open Spurstalk these days. I don't ever go outside this subforum, no need to.
Everything else should be archived and as you said search should be disabled.

I think botting/ddos is the issue because how else to explain the site working perfectly at some hours and then going down randomly.
It was fine during the draft when the number of actual humans browsing it was the highest.

Interesting. I just looked at the forums page, so you might be right about what is going on. I can't see there being 13K active users currently.

[Dex]

that last paragraph of glazing is why nothing gets done. This isnt just a summer thing, it’s gradually getting worse. This website was literally down for nine hours. There is no telling that months from now the website could be down for longer than that because there is no communication. That’s a sign of no appreciation for the people who use it. The community makes spurstalk, not the other way around. If spurstalk doesn’t respect its community enough to improve its environment, it will leave.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you spend your time and hard-earned money creating this forum? Are you paying for this shit?

Not saying everything is perfect. The servers have been whack lately. But have some respect for the people who made this place available in the first place and are basically doing it as a favor to the Spurs community. They don't owe you anything.

[Dex]

Didn't realize there was arcade games. Wasn't there also a Kings forum (if so, what was the reason for the Kings forum?)?

SpursTalk adopted a lot of Pistons fans after 2005 Finals because they didn't have a great forum of their own.

Same thing kinda happened with the Kings fans in the 2006 Playoffs, but didn't last as long.

[NASpurs]

Those full table sessions need some clearing every hour or two.

[scott]

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

This is how I open Spurstalk these days. I don't ever go outside this subforum, no need to.
Everything else should be archived and as you said search should be disabled.

I think botting/ddos is the issue because how else to explain the site working perfectly at some hours and then going down randomly.
It was fine during the draft when the number of actual humans browsing it was the highest.

And the ddos is likely due to the nonsense in the Political forum. I doubt there are internet troll/bot farms who give a shit about shutting down discourse about the Spurs - but the Political forum (for whatever reason) draws attention from scumbags across the nation who don't GAF about the Spurs or the NBA at all. It should be jettisoned into the dark web.

[scott]

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you spend your time and hard-earned money creating this forum? Are you paying for this shit?

Not saying everything is perfect. The servers have been whack lately. But have some respect for the people who made this place available in the first place and are basically doing it as a favor to the Spurs community. They don't owe you anything.

tbh, people in here are literally volunteering to pay for this shit, but we can't even get the owners of this site to engage in a discussion about it.

[Guru of Nothing]

Can we at least kick around .com domain name suggestions if it comes down to someone (NOT ME) standing up a new message board. fuckhouston.com is already taken.

[NASpurs]

Can we at least kick around .com domain name suggestions if it comes down to someone (NOT ME) standing up a new message board. fuckhouston.com is already taken.

The good news is that fiveringsfaggot.com is still available.

https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?itc=dlp_domain&domainToCheck=fiveringsfaggot.com&tmskey=1dom_03_buydomain

[Dejounte]

tbh, people in here are literally volunteering to pay for this shit, but we can't even get the owners of this site to engage in a discussion about it.

Exactly. I was going to mention this in my post, but I didn’t. Simping for people who don’t care about you is idiotic. They did spend time and money once upon a time but that was forever ago. All that good will should be gone. They’ve moved on and soon people here will too.

[vy65]

And the ddos is likely due to the nonsense in the Political forum. I doubt there are internet troll/bot farms who give a shit about shutting down discourse about the Spurs - but the Political forum (for whatever reason) draws attention from scumbags across the nation who don't GAF about the Spurs or the NBA at all. It should be jettisoned into the dark web.

As a recovering user, I can vouch. It’s a cancer that needs to be removed.

[vy65]

The good news is that fiveringsfaggot.com is still available.

https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?itc=dlp_domain&domainToCheck=fiveringsfaggot.com&tmskey=1dom_03_buydomain

This one has my vote

[LeBowen]

Exactly. I was going to mention this in my post, but I didn’t. Simping for people who don’t care about you is idiotic. They did spend time and money once upon a time but that was forever ago. All that good will should be gone. They’ve moved on and soon people here will too.

Worst case scenario is that this site goes down, we regroup in that subreddit and get a new forum going.
There are even free options out there like phpBB. I'm a member of another forum using it and it has all the needed features.
https://www.phpbb.com/

https://www.phpbb.com/community/index.php
I don't think we need anything more than this, none of that modern nonsense that would attract a lot of sniffers. :lol

[Dex]

tbh, people in here are literally volunteering to pay for this shit, but we can't even get the owners of this site to engage in a discussion about it.

It's their site to run as they see fit. I'm not trying to speak for them, but I can fairly say they've always tried to make it free and accessible to anybody without asking for anything. They tried ads for a while, but took those down because they were obtrusive and unpredictable.

If you think you can do a better job, nobody is stopping you.

[pad300]

The good news is that fiveringsfaggot.com is still available.

https://www.godaddy.com/domainsearch/find?itc=dlp_domain&domainToCheck=fiveringsfaggot.com&tmskey=1dom_03_buydomain

Short-sighted. Wemby will bring us more...

[spurraider21]

It’s all cutewizard (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=19861)s forwarded YouTube videos tbh :lol
i ended up putting that account on ignore

[tonight...you]

i ended up putting that account on ignore
I get it, but she means well. She's a cool fan.

[spurraider21]

I get it, but she means well. She's a cool fan.
yeah its not a malice thing. just makes navigating the site worse

[jeebus]

fuck discord. that shit is hot garbage.

rename this site PoliticsTalk and move the rest of the sports shit to a different site

[John B]

i ended up putting that account on ignore

They’re cool videos and I’m sure she means well. But all those videos sure make downloading the website slower. A sure fix would be is to provide a good description then just create links.

[Ocotillo]

I thought Cute Wizard was a guy?

[Dejounte]

I’m about this close to gathering core people (this forum’s most popular names) to build something new for us. I’ve got the tech skills, other people can contribute in other ways

[LeBowen]

I’m about this close to gathering core people (this forum’s most popular names) to build something new for us. I’ve got the tech skills, other people can contribute in other ways

There's no way people move off spurstalk as long as the site is running, even in it's current, dysfunctional state.
But we need a contingency plan in case it collapses.

[BacktoBasics]

It's their site to run as they see fit. I'm not trying to speak for them, but I can fairly say they've always tried to make it free and accessible to anybody without asking for anything. They tried ads for a while, but took those down because they were obtrusive and unpredictable.

If you think you can do a better job, nobody is stopping you.

Its not about thinking we can do better. Everyone knows we can do better and a lot of us are willing to help offset or cover the cost. There is no good reason for ownership to not at least have a discussion about improving things here. We would all rather make this place better than migrate.

[BacktoBasics]

I’m about this close to gathering core people (this forum’s most popular names) to build something new for us. I’ve got the tech skills, other people can contribute in other ways

Reach out to me. I'm interested.

[scott]

Its not about thinking we can do better. Everyone knows we can do better and a lot of us are willing to help offset or cover the cost. There is no good reason for ownership to not at least have a discussion about improving things here. We would all rather make this place better than migrate.

This. It isn’t about thinking we can do better.

A lot of us have been here since the beginning, moving over together from SR and have over 20 years invested in this community. We don’t want to “do better” somewhere else… we want to to be here, but we want it to work reliably and hopefully with software that’s not outdated by a decade or more.

We aren’t even asking for anything, other than the ability to help contribute to the operating costs of this site.

[vy65]

It's the most SpursTalk thing ever to get on people for offering free money.

Spurs fans are so spoiled

[spurs1990]

This. It isn’t about thinking we can do better.

A lot of us have been here since the beginning, moving over together from SR and have over 20 years invested in this community. We don’t want to “do better” somewhere else… we want to to be here, but we want it to work reliably and hopefully with software that’s not outdated by a decade or more.

We aren’t even asking for anything, other than the ability to help contribute to the operating costs of this site.

That would be the opportunity to do something incredibly funny and reignite the SR domain. That site is a cautionary tale. So good (relatively) 1999-2004 and then gradually fell off

[LeBowen]

This. It isn’t about thinking we can do better.

A lot of us have been here since the beginning, moving over together from SR and have over 20 years invested in this community. We don’t want to “do better” somewhere else… we want to to be here, but we want it to work reliably and hopefully with software that’s not outdated by a decade or more.

We aren’t even asking for anything, other than the ability to help contribute to the operating costs of this site.

The thing that honestly triggers me the most is that timvp is completely unresponsive.
He's obviously visiting the site when he puts up post-game grades, is it so much beneat him to just acknowledge us and say he can't do anything about the issues if he's got no power over it?
Spurs are on a upwards trajectory and this place will get a lot more traffic pretty soon if it stays alive, it would just be a shame to throw away 20+ years of history just like that.

[scott]

The thing that honestly triggers me the most is that timvp is completely unresponsive.
He's obviously visiting the site when he puts up post-game grades, is it so much beneat him to just acknowledge us and say he can't do anything about the issues if he's got no power over it?
Spurs are on a upwards trajectory and this place will get a lot more traffic pretty soon if it stays alive, it would just be a shame to throw away 20+ years of history just like that.

Maybe they just aren’t interested in the hassle, but now would be the ideal time to invest in this site and expand the content offering for this very reason. There is such a dearth of quality Spurs content out there that bullshit AI sites like AirAlamo generate tons of traffic and have probably successfully monetized that site. The Spurs Podcast landscape is a complete fucking joke, but even the ones that do exist have successfully monetized those with ads (they may not be very lucrative at this point, because all the Podcasts are fucking terrible, but they do at least have sponsors paying to ads).

I think there is absolutely a market for high quality written content, beyond just game grades, supplemented by a high quality podcasts and YT videos. Find some up and coming content creators willing to do it to make a name for themselves and get paid contingent upon the site’s success and profitability metrics. Spurs fans eat content up - just check out the comment sections of national content creators when they mention the Spurs… fans flock to that shit. Spurs fans just don’t have a go to place for high quality content. The forum is just an offshoot of that.

But, I respect LJ and Kori if they just don’t want to deal with it. Maybe they actually view the forum as a detriment to achieving this. The political forum, the sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. certainly don’t help and maybe the “unfiltered” nature of the forum is something they value and don’t want to bother cleaning up. Or maybe they’re actively working on selling the site and can’t say anything and are just keeping things afloat minimally until it can close (although it’s not like these issues just recently popped up).

This all just speculation… but some of the discussions on this forum are the highest quality Spurs related content around… and I hate to lose it. Even if we find a new home, be it a subreddit a discord or some new site… not everyone will move over and this tribe will have been effectively disbanded permanently.

Dejounte (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=51342) - if you do go down the route of creating a new home, you have to do what Kori and LJ did 20+ years ago when we all moved over here, and personally recruit everyone to move over. Dusty’s tyrannical ways were driving us away and those two created SpursTalk and reached out directly with invites for us to come over here. Eventually more and more people followed after a critical mass had migrated. It got to the point where Dusty created text filters and it blocked out SpursTalk, Kori, timvp, etc from even being mentioned on SR.

I hope our community can live on. I’ve been interacting with a lot of you crusty fuckers since I was in my teens. Now I’m in my mid-40s, with a family and living thousands of miles anway… but as lame as it sounds, I would miss you sons of bitches.

timvp (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=8) Kori Ellis (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=6) - hear our cries… at least let us forum dwellers pitch in to maintain this site and help any way we can.

[koriwhat]

Personally I'd nuke the sub forums outside of the spurs/nba to free up bandwidth. A lot of posters in those subs dont post in the spurs/nba which would help eliminate the multitude of traffic going to those subs.

It's just a suggestion and it wouldn't solve all the issues of downtime.

[stnick2261]

I really like the functionality of a Forum as opposed to Discord or Reddit. I like a single thread I can follow. Discord chat tends to move too fast for me to want to scroll up and read everything I missed. This is coming from someone who uses Discord every day and in a dozen servers. I also a not a ran of Reddit moving threads and comments up and down depending on votes. And then it hides comments when there's too much activity.

I've been in a lot of Forums over my years... but as an Aggie from San Antonio, I'm mostly on Spurstalk and Texags.

[Mugen]

cutewizard is the only person I have on ignore. They're also a 100% a guy in the Philippines tbh :lol

[scott]

My guy/gal cutewizard catching strays here. I don’t know if they are a guy/gal but I love their enthusiasm. I just imagine that they’re in some kind of remote Filipino village that only gets the internet turned on for an hour a day and that’s when cutewizard just goes ham on Spurs videos :lol In reality, he/she is probably living in some Manila penthouse and owns the world’s preeminent collection of high end Spurs memorabilia or some shit. I bet cutewizard kills at karaoke though.

[ambchang]

The thing about moving off is to migrate all the history with it as well. Face it, spurs talk isn’t just a bunch of us lunatics mouthing off at each other, it’s the history and memories of all that mouthing off.

I mean, will spurstalk really be spurstalk without the Naruto, white pants, ms paint threads? Will it even be spurstalk without @Rappin’ Shaq and a whole bunch of those other usernames?

[Chomag]

This place has had many peak moments throughout the years but still think it was at its best though when we all collectively hated on the Lakers during the Kobe years (fuck the Lakers BTW) so I do hope it continues on.

Anyone remember or know what im talking about the fun glitch that would happen when misspelling Sean Elliott's name? Good times :)

[Dex]

It's the most SpursTalk thing ever to get on people for offering free money.

Spurs fans are so spoiled

I'd argue that it's the most SpursTalk thing ever to complain to people who are offering a free product that they have poured years of their time and effort and money into, but we can agree to disagree here.

When you start taking other people's money (even if volunteered), that comes with expectations and implications. I'd offer to chip in too if it was wanted because I love this place, but they probably haven't taken up the offers for a reason.

Pretty sure they aren't getting rich off SpursTalk, and they also have their own lives and families to attend to.

[Dejounte]

The thing that honestly triggers me the most is that timvp is completely unresponsive.
He's obviously visiting the site when he puts up post-game grades, is it so much beneat him to just acknowledge us and say he can't do anything about the issues if he's got no power over it?
Spurs are on a upwards trajectory and this place will get a lot more traffic pretty soon if it stays alive, it would just be a shame to throw away 20+ years of history just like that.

The reason is they don’t care about you and everyone on this forum. No matter how much Dex likes to spin it. When your loyalty is based on your nostalgia, you’re doing it wrong. Someone could treat you nice 20 years ago and then treat you like nothing today. It happens.

[Dex]

The reason is they don’t care about you and everyone on this forum. No matter how much Dex likes to spin it. When your loyalty is based on your nostalgia, you’re doing it wrong. Someone could treat you nice 20 years ago and then treat you like nothing today. It happens.

This may be one of the most ungrateful things I've ever read here, but okay...continue to whine and complain because occasionally the page won't load or is acting slow. :violin

[Dejounte]

This may be one of the most ungrateful things I've ever read here, but okay...continue to whine and complain because occasionally the page won't load or is acting slow. :violin

I don’t know why you are acting delusional about what’s going on in here. Are there any lies being told? The owners of the forum have abandoned its community. Have they not? Many people in here have offered to help make improvements and help with payment, yet the owners have ignored them. Is that not true? What is giving you the impression that the owners respect you and your time? Are they putting in so much effort to maintain this website? No. Someone says it costs $40 annually to keep the forum open. That is probably 1% of their paycheck. Your simping for their financial contributions and effort is out of control. It is nowhere near deserved.

[Splits]

I don’t know why you are acting delusional about what’s going on in here. Are there any lies being told? The owners of the forum have abandoned its community. Have they not? Many people in here have offered to help make improvements and help with payment, yet the owners have ignored them. Is that not true? What is giving you the impression that the owners respect you and your time? Are they putting in so much effort to maintain this website? No. Someone says it costs $40 annually to keep the forum open. That is probably 1% of their paycheck. Your simping for their financial contributions and effort is out of control. It is nowhere near deserved.

About 10 years ago I was in discussion with Kori about selling the site. I can tell you right now, this number is BS. Not sure if I should post exactly what she told me what it costs to maintain the site out of respect for private discussion, but you are magnitudes off.

[itzsoweezee]

Anyone with technical expertise have any idea what could explain the randomness of the site being available/load appropriately? It seems like if this was hosted by a third party, it wouldn’t be so random

[scott]

I'd argue that it's the most SpursTalk thing ever to complain to people who are offering a free product that they have poured years of their time and effort and money into, but we can agree to disagree here.

When you start taking other people's money (even if volunteered), that comes with expectations and implications. I'd offer to chip in too if it was wanted because I love this place, but they probably haven't taken up the offers for a reason.

Pretty sure they aren't getting rich off SpursTalk, and they also have their own lives and families to attend to.

I'd argue the most SpursTalk thing ever is complaining about other people complaining, tbqh

[Dejounte]

About 10 years ago I was in discussion with Kori about selling the site. I can tell you right now, this number is BS. Not sure if I should post exactly what she told me what it costs to maintain the site out of respect for private discussion, but you are magnitudes off.

Spill the number. It’s not like this forum is a technical marvel, or built by Bill Gates or some well known developer.

[Splits]

Anyone with technical expertise have any idea what could explain the randomness of the site being available/load appropriately? It seems like if this was hosted by a third party, it wouldn’t be so random

if you read the error message you will see it is caused by a DB table holding the sessions getting full, probably purged on a periodic basis which causes the sporadic behavior.

[scott]

About 10 years ago I was in discussion with Kori about selling the site. I can tell you right now, this number is BS. Not sure if I should post exactly what she told me what it costs to maintain the site out of respect for private discussion, but you are magnitudes off.

I have no clue about any of this stuff... but I am curious how much money we are really talking here.

Looks like you can get the "Gold" hosting package from vBulletin for $75/mo: https://www.vbulletin.com/en/vbulletin-cloud

But I'll caveat this and say before I could move on to the next page and see what the Forum software costs... the vBulletin page became non-responsive and wouldn't load anymore :lol Maybe that's the problem.

[LeBowen]

Spill the number. It’s not like this forum is a technical marvel, or built by Bill Gates or some well known developer.

It can't be more than $100 per month even if we include the spurstalk site itself, not just the forum.
Unless they were paying for some rip-off package.

[Splits]

Alright, this isn't really provocative information and it is from 2015. This is what she told me:

>> The forum is on a two-server platform, and we own the servers. Maintenance costs are probably about $500 a month.

Keep in mind this is essentially the pre-cloud/personal-hosting era and your maintenance costs were primarily based on bandwidth usage. So I believe her. I also believe they probably still own the servers and never migrated to a hosting service, but I could be wrong.

[Splits]

It can't be more than $100 per month even if we include the spurstalk site itself, not just the forum.
Unless they were paying for some rip-off package.

Packages today are based on compute power. The more traffic, the more resources needed to process that traffic, the higher the cost. You don't just get some static number, a site with 100 views a month vs. a site with 10,000 posts a month cost dramatically different.

[Dex]

I'd argue the most SpursTalk thing ever is complaining about other people complaining, tbqh

I'd like to file a complaint on the complaining of complaints.

[scott]

I'd like to file a complaint on the complaining of complaints.

The link to the complaint department is currently unavailable :lol

[scott]

Alright, this isn't really provocative information and it is from 2015. This is what she told me:

>> The forum is on a two-server platform, and we own the servers. Maintenance costs are probably about $500 a month.

Keep in mind this is essentially the pre-cloud/personal-hosting era and your maintenance costs were primarily based on bandwidth usage. So I believe her. I also believe they probably still own the servers and never migrated to a hosting service, but I could be wrong.

That explains it... the surge protector switch keeps getting flipped when their dog walks over it

[NASpurs]

Plus you gotta take into account the costs of pellets to feed the hamsters. The costs start to pile up.

[koriwhat]

I pay $175 for 3yrs of unlimited bandwidth. Most forum software is open-source too.

Really depends who they go through for hosting.

[koriwhat]

Alright, this isn't really provocative information and it is from 2015. This is what she told me:

>> The forum is on a two-server platform, and we own the servers. Maintenance costs are probably about $500 a month.

Keep in mind this is essentially the pre-cloud/personal-hosting era and your maintenance costs were primarily based on bandwidth usage. So I believe her. I also believe they probably still own the servers and never migrated to a hosting service, but I could be wrong.

No one is housing their own server bro. The cloud has been forever.

It really depends on options like HA and FT, virtualization, etc.

[Dex]

I have no clue about any of this stuff... but I am curious how much money we are really talking here.

Looks like you can get the "Gold" hosting package from vBulletin for $75/mo: https://www.vbulletin.com/en/vbulletin-cloud

But I'll caveat this and say before I could move on to the next page and see what the Forum software costs... the vBulletin page became non-responsive and wouldn't load anymore :lol Maybe that's the problem.

vBulletin is just the software the forum uses.

That doesn't account for domain hosting, servers and storage, maintenance, and essential services like security, backup, etc.

I help support a different website which I just had to renew and just the domain and essential services was around $400 for the year...and it only gets a fraction of the traffic that SpursTalk gets.

Also, I think someone earlier mentioned DDoS attacks and stuff like that which could definitely be a factor.

[scott]

vBulletin is just the software the forum uses.

That doesn't account for domain hosting, servers and storage, maintenance, and essential services like security, backup, etc.

I help support a different website which I just had to renew and just the domain and essential services was around $400 for the year...and it doesn't support near the amount of traffic SpursTalk has.

The page I linked to (which is working now) isn't for the forum software, it's for vBulletin's hosting service. But the fact that it went down while I was randomly looking at it doesn't exactly provide a ringing endorsement.

[koriwhat]

I don’t know why you are acting delusional about what’s going on in here. Are there any lies being told? The owners of the forum have abandoned its community. Have they not? Many people in here have offered to help make improvements and help with payment, yet the owners have ignored them. Is that not true? What is giving you the impression that the owners respect you and your time? Are they putting in so much effort to maintain this website? No. Someone says it costs $40 annually to keep the forum open. That is probably 1% of their paycheck. Your simping for their financial contributions and effort is out of control. It is nowhere near deserved.

If people help monetarily with expenses would that create more headaches for Kori and LJ with tax season rolls around? Not sure but that could be the case.

[scott]

Seems like this is the problem, not cutewizard's YouTube links

Nuke the Political forum and I bet this problem goes away.

https://i.imgur.com/q3deykc.png

[koriwhat]

vBulletin is just the software the forum uses.

That doesn't account for domain hosting, servers and storage, maintenance, and essential services like security, backup, etc.

I help support a different website which I just had to renew and just the domain and essential services was around $400 for the year...and it doesn't support near the amount of traffic SpursTalk has.

Damn that's expensive!

[Splits]

I have no clue about any of this stuff... but I am curious how much money we are really talking here.

Looks like you can get the "Gold" hosting package from vBulletin for $75/mo: https://www.vbulletin.com/en/vbulletin-cloud

But I'll caveat this and say before I could move on to the next page and see what the Forum software costs... the vBulletin page became non-responsive and wouldn't load anymore :lol Maybe that's the problem.

lol 200 GB/month. I use that on my phone. This site probably uses 10-20 times that month, so $750-1500 a month in charges.

btw: the reason vBulletin can still charge on bandwidth is because they can directly translate their bandwidth usage to compute power, just to clarify my previous comment

[LeBowen]

Packages today are based on compute power. The more traffic, the more resources needed to process that traffic, the higher the cost. You don't just get some static number, a site with 100 views a month vs. a site with 10,000 posts a month cost dramatically different.

Well, if they were paying for a package with more traffic, the site wouldn't be collapsing every time something major happens.

https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/buy/

Invisioncommunity is on the more expensive end and they have unlimited members/post per month even in the basic package.

As I mentioned yesterday, a lot of forums use open source option.

https://www.phpbb.com/

The only reason to keep vBulletin would be to preserve all the data, but if it's lost, then there's no point in keeping it.

[koriwhat]

Seems like this is the problem, not cutewizard's YouTube links

Nuke the Political forum and I bet this problem goes away.

https://i.imgur.com/q3deykc.png

Been saying the same... I like to play in that sandbox but it would def clear of the traffic jam around here. Same goes for all subs not spurs/nba.

[koriwhat]

Well, if they were paying for a package with more traffic, the site wouldn't be collapsing every time something major happens.

https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/buy/

Invisioncommunity is on the more expensive end and they have unlimited members/post per month even in the basic package.

As I mentioned yesterday, a lot of forums use open source option.

https://www.phpbb.com/

The only reason to keep vBulletin would be to preserve all the data, but if it's lost, then there's no point in keeping it.

Php is basically a dead language plagued by security concerns. Moving on from such a platform coded in that language would do wonders for performance.

[Splits]

No one is housing their own server bro. The cloud has been forever.

It really depends on options like HA and FT, virtualization, etc.

Oh, so the owners told you they migrated to the cloud before that was even an option? Good to know.

And don't quote me, faggot.

[Dex]

Plus you gotta take into account the costs of pellets to feed the hamsters. The costs start to pile up.

Maybe we should upgrade to guinea pigs. But then we gotta buy bigger wheels and bigger pellets...

[koriwhat]

lol 200 GB/month. I use that on my phone. This site probably uses 10-20 times that month, so $750-1500 a month in charges.

btw: the reason vBulletin can still charge on bandwidth is because they can directly translate their bandwidth usage to compute power, just to clarify my previous comment

I doubt they're paying $12k+ a yr for this cesspool. If they are, they're getting ripped off to the max!

[Splits]

Well, if they were paying for a package with more traffic, the site wouldn't be collapsing every time something major happens.

https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/buy/

Invisioncommunity is on the more expensive end and they have unlimited members/post per month even in the basic package.

As I mentioned yesterday, a lot of forums use open source option.

https://www.phpbb.com/

The only reason to keep vBulletin would be to preserve all the data, but if it's lost, then there's no point in keeping it.

Yeah that basic package allows for 500 GB of storage which is basically nothing. I'm sure this site has 10x of that given it's been here for 20+ years. So now you're looking at the Business package at $549/month not counting the migration costs

[koriwhat]

Oh, so the owners told you they migrated to the cloud before that was even an option? Good to know.

And don't quote me, faggot.

Call me what you'd like but the cloud is soft language for the masses. The cloud are just servers, you know the servers that have been around forever.

If they hosted themselves they be paying thousands a month for a dedicated T1 or similar which isn't a thing these days.

Sorry you hate everything about me but you're out of your league arguing with me over IT.

[koriwhat]

Yeah that basic package allows for 500 GB of storage which is basically nothing. I'm sure this site has 10x of that given it's been here for 20+ years. So now you're looking at the Business package at $549/month not counting the migration costs

I seriously doubt it unless those log files aren't KBs but instead GBs.

[koriwhat]

Oh, so the owners told you they migrated to the cloud before that was even an option? Good to know.

And don't quote me, faggot.

Btw what's HA and FT, smarty? :lol

[koriwhat]

I don't believe I've been rude in this thread and just offering some insight. Sorry.

[Guru of Nothing]

https://xenforo.com/purchase/

https://xenforo.com/customers/showcase/

[LeBowen]

Php is basically a dead language plagued by security concerns. Moving on from such a platform coded in that language would do wonders for performance.

I use a couple of phpbb forums that have more traffic than spurstalk and I don't recall any major downtime or security issues over the past decade or so.
I think realGM is also phpbb.

[koriwhat]

I use a couple of phpbb forums that have more traffic than spurstalk and I don't recall any major downtime or security issues over the past decade or so.

Not saying the board software itself isn't usable. The language of PHP is a huge security concern though.

You host your boards, it seems, with a better server co.

[LeBowen]

The language of PHP is a huge security concern though.

I always go with the logic that for something to be a security concern, it has to have actual value.
What's someone going to do with a bunch of random usernames and passwords on a forum with no more than a few hundred regular members?

The only security concern is so called journalists stealing high quality content from here and posting it as their own somewhere else. :lol

[koriwhat]

I always go with the logic that for something to be a security concern, it has to have actual value.
What's someone going to do with a bunch of random usernames and passwords on a forum with no more than a few hundred regular members?

The only security concern is so called journalists stealing high quality content from here and posting it as their own somewhere else. :lol

No one is going to steal passwords especially encrypted in sha256.

[Guru of Nothing]

And highly recommend scoring a catchy domain name. As someone mentioned above, in a year or two Spurs are going to be a mighty lure on the web. Would hope that whoever sets this up makes a couple of dollars from ad revenue. ... and then comes merch!

Moderation might be a pita. As others have stressed, cut bait on the superfluous bullshit forums (no turds in the punch bowl).

[Dex]

I always go with the logic that for something to be a security concern, it has to have actual value.
What's someone going to do with a bunch of random usernames and passwords on a forum with no more than a few hundred regular members?

The only security concern is so called journalists stealing high quality content from here and posting it as their own somewhere else. :lol

And that can happen anywhere.

"Journalists" and click-bait merchants have been stealing content off places like reddit for decades.

I've personally seen a recipe I posted on reddit end up on some random food blog basically word for word, only to be REPOSTED back to reddit :lol

[Splits]

Btw what's HA and FT, smarty? :lol

so the guy who puts a needle with poison into another man for a couple hundred bucks is going to quiz an enterprise architect for the past 15 years on high availability vs. fault tolerance? lmao

[koriwhat]

so the guy who puts a needle with poison into another man for a couple hundred bucks is going to quiz an enterprise architect for the past 15 years on high availability vs. fault tolerance? lmao

Lol glad grok could help.

[koriwhat]

Btw it's not a vs when it comes to both HA and FT. They work hand in hand especially when we talk about virtualization.

[LeBowen]

and then comes merch!

I can already see all the fans rolling into the new Spurs arena with "objectively good season" and "sniffer crew" merch. :lol

[Splits]

Lol glad grok could help.

good to know your go-to AI is mechahitler. not surprising, but good to know

[koriwhat]

good to know your go-to AI is mechahitler. not surprising, but good to know

I'm not trying to argue with you bro and the grok comme t was simply sarcasm. I'm not on Twitter btw.

Have a good day, grumpy.

[Guru of Nothing]

spurdello.com, that's all I got.

[koriwhat]

spurdello.com, that's all I got.

What's the "dello"?

[Guru of Nothing]

What's the "dello"?

Like a bordello. Too long a of a walk?

[koriwhat]

Like a bordello. Too long a of a walk?

Ah ha! :tu

[Dex]

Like a bordello. Too long a of a walk?

https://media1.tenor.com/m/cY5hpcujJu4AAAAC/open-and-shut-in-and-out.gif

[koriwhat]

I'm not clever enough with url names so I'll leave that up to yall.

[Splits]

I'm not trying to argue with you bro and the grok comme t was simply sarcasm. I'm not on Twitter btw.

Have a good day, grumpy.

Yeah, we all know why


I finally got to make a new Twitter account a month ago and today I woke up and was "permanently suspended". LMFAO

I got a 5 day suspension for replying to an anonymous tweet with, " can you believe anyone supports that tard harris?" The moderators at twitter/algo are straight up pathetic bitches just like most "males" here on ST.

you can't keep an account open even under Elmo's twitter, got suspended to many times so you quit.

[Leetonidas]

someone just make SpursChat.net already

[koriwhat]

Yeah, we all know why



you can't keep an account open even under Elmo's twitter, got suspended to many times so you quit.

What's up your ass bro, seriously? This is a you problem.

Have a great day, grumpy.

Again, I'm not much of a social media darling thus I dont care to use Twitter or many other platforms. Stay mad!

[koriwhat]

someone just make SpursChat.net already

Gospursgo.com?

[spurraider21]

Seems like this is the problem, not cutewizard's YouTube links

Nuke the Political forum and I bet this problem goes away.

https://i.imgur.com/q3deykc.png
is the political forum even that active?

[koriwhat]

is the political forum even that active?

Maybe not that active as the user count suggests but def more active than all other sub forums I would think.

[Leetonidas]

Gospursgo.com?

the domain is available :lol

[Leetonidas]

is the political forum even that active?

It's just winehole mostly talking to himself :lol

[koriwhat]

the domain is available :lol

I was surprised too. Seriously surprised.

[koriwhat]

It's just winehole mostly talking to himself :lol

It's definitely become that, no doubt.

[Splits]

is the political forum even that active?

I think the argument is that the content draws DDoS bots

[scott]

I can already see all the fans rolling into the new Spurs arena with "objectively good season" and "sniffer crew" merch. :lol

omg, "objectively good season" merch would hit so goddamn hard.

[tonight...you]

yallreadyforthis.com

[koriwhat]

yallreadyforthis.com

Lmfao :tu

[koriwhat]

Everybodyclapyourhands.com

[scott]

the domain is available :lol


I was surprised too. Seriously surprised.

Doesn't look like it's available. Has been registered since 1999.

I was about to go snatch it up if it wasn't.

[scott]

Objectively Good Season sounds like a great name for a Podcast or Newsletter

[koriwhat]

yallreadyforthis.com

Holy shit this leads to a defunct Spacejam.com page. :lol

[koriwhat]

Doesn't look like it's available. Has been registered since 1999.

I was about to go snatch it up if it wasn't.

Ah, you're right! Renewed 5-2025.

[Robz4000]

itstillhurts.com

[koriwhat]

itstillhurts.com

2013 was rough...

[tonight...you]

Holy shit this leads to a defunct Spacejam.com page. :lol
lol, no way
That's awesome

[koriwhat]

lol, no way
That's awesome

So wild and what a coincidence considering it's all bball related.

https://www.spacejam.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

[Guru of Nothing]

Against my better judgement, I just purchased baselinebums.com. Cost me a weekend's worth of beer.

Who knew?!

[scott]

Solid purchase, GoN!

[Guru of Nothing]

Solid purchase, GoN!

File under, it takes a village.

[Splits]

https://www.name.com/domain/search/poundingthecock

[koriwhat]

https://www.name.com/domain/search/poundingthecock

:lmao

[exstatic]

Seems like this is the problem, not cutewizard's YouTube links

Nuke the Political forum and I bet this problem goes away.

https://i.imgur.com/q3deykc.png

I concur, and said that days ago. It’s a cesspool and a garbage pile.

[ambchang]

PATFOsucks.com

MATFOsucks.net

Luck.the.Fakers.net

5RingsFaggot.Fixedon6.net

Duncan.Top5.com

But I have to admit baselinebums.com is hard to top

[scott]

getrefuel.com

raceforseis.com

[Dex]

uncledennis.com is already taken

[vy65]

I concur, and said that days ago. It’s a cesspool and a garbage pile.

It's mindblowing that there's 13,000 people on there. I could probably count on two hands the number of actual active posters.

Blow it up and bring our boy ElNono home

[vy65]

thepoweroffriendship.life is available you guys ...

[scott]

It's mindblowing that there's 13,000 people on there. I could probably count on two hands the number of actual active posters.

Blow it up and bring our boy ElNono home

13k but only 84 registered users :lol

I'm more curious in understanding how some people are bolded and some others. It's a travesty that Guru of Nothing (who's been here since the beginning) isn't bolded. Likewise with LeBowen.

[koriwhat]

13k but only 84 registered users :lol

I'm more curious in understanding how some people are bolded and some others. It's a travesty that Guru of Nothing (who's been here since the beginning) isn't bolded. Likewise with LeBowen.

I think it was a per basis manual procedural thing back in the day, not an active nor automatic feature of the board.

[vy65]

13k but only 84 registered users :lol

I'm more curious in understanding how some people are bolded and some others. It's a travesty that Guru of Nothing (who's been here since the beginning) isn't bolded. Likewise with LeBowen.

Agreed, getting bolded was everything I thought my quinceanera would be, and more.

[tonight...you]

13k but only 84 registered users :lol

I'm more curious in understanding how some people are bolded and some others. It's a travesty that Guru of Nothing (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=33) (who's been here since the beginning) isn't bolded. Likewise with LeBowen (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=54457).
I was surprised as hell when I got bolded.
You're right too. Those 2 need to be knighted.

[absoloot66]

spurs.talk

imo_tbh.net

[Guru of Nothing]

13k but only 84 registered users :lol

I'm more curious in understanding how some people are bolded and some others. It's a travesty that Guru of Nothing (who's been here since the beginning) isn't bolded. Likewise with LeBowen.

Well, I did checkout for a few years. I have no recollection of Bryn Forbes (though I'm sure I saw him play once or twice), so I'm probably getting off light.

[Dex]

We used to get awards too but those were stripped from us all :cry

[tonight...you]

We used to get awards too but those were stripped from us all :cry
Yeah, like medals and ribbons for various achievements.

[exstatic]

We used to get awards too but those were stripped from us all :cry
The cruelest cut was losing the OG Spur icon.

[ChumpDumper]

It's mindblowing that there's 13,000 people on there.
Bots.

[jeebus]

Congrats spurstalk. You had the most members ever on today.

[Ariel]

https://i.ibb.co/pj9KGYbh/users.png
:bang

[Robz4000]

Over 19k users now. Det Waters III signing is historic tbh.

[sfernald]

God….pls…..help


me

[Dex]

Not the expert here, but what would be the solution?

Obviously one answer would be limit the forum to registered users, but that cuts out people who legitimately just want to observe without registering or posting. I was a lurker for a period of time before deciding to sign up, and I also remember registering was limited for a while there.

Maybe identify areas where IPs seem...numerous or suspicious and limit them (i.e. Russian bots or whatever)? But then again, you risk cutting off legitimate guests.

Yes, the answer could be as simple as "upgrade your servers" but that shit ain't free either.

[heyheymymy]

timvp is using bots to artificially increase site activity metrics so he can attract more advertisers

[Ariel]

timvp is using bots to artificially increase site activity metrics so he can attract more advertisers
Last night it was 99,7% non posters (inactive/bots), pretty soon it's going to be 100% if this keeps going on.
PS: I know it's not but still, this needs to be addressed if this site expects to survive... otherwise there may not be SpursTalk for much longer.

[Ariel]

Right now, 99,4% "guests" (inactive/BOTS)

https://i.ibb.co/1GLVvdm9/st.png




Check out the number of "guests" "viewing" dead forums:

https://i.ibb.co/XktzCT2q/st.png

I doubt there's one actual human in there.

[Guru of Nothing]

Have not paid much attention to numbers, but I'm sure actual people visiting this site are dwindling rapidly too. Expecting visitors to a site that is down more often than not is unsustainable, obviously.

[spurraider21]

Not the expert here, but what would be the solution?

Obviously one answer would be limit the forum to registered users, but that cuts out people who legitimately just want to observe without registering or posting. I was a lurker for a period of time before deciding to sign up, and I also remember registering was limited for a while there.

Maybe identify areas where IPs seem...numerous or suspicious and limit them (i.e. Russian bots or whatever)? But then again, you risk cutting off legitimate guests.

Yes, the answer could be as simple as "upgrade your servers" but that shit ain't free either.
let me see your papers

[Limguogolo]

Could these be the robots of various AIs trying to train their models on forums? Pay attention to what you write, big brothers are copying you, and in five years, Grokodeal4 could repeat your stupidity.

[scott]

Heck, only 4 of the 15 people currently browsing this thread are actual people :lol

I'm genuinely curious at what these bots are doing.

[jeebus]

Like someone said a bit ago, it's probably some ass hurt idiot in the political forum, trying to do a DDOS on the site. That forum should've been shit canned years ago but obviously no one with any sort of power gives a fuck around here.

[scott]

Its Dusty Garza, trying to exact his revenge

[Guru of Nothing]

Still withering on the vine. Wish we could at least get a direct "Fuck y'all" status update.

[Dex]

Sooo…I’m in France right now and get a “you have been blocked” when I try to go to SpursTalk on my computer through WiFi.

Not sure if this is some new security mechanism, but…maybe blocking FRANCE isn’t the best idea considering our star player.

[Dejounte]

Bu-bu-but timvp has done so much for us! Nothing needs to improve! Slurp slurp

[ChumpDumper]

:lol who said nothing needs to improve?

[Spur|n|Austin]

We could all hit up spursreport.com

[ismael-robert]

We could all hit up spursreport.com

Don't kno when it happened but it's been taken down. Theres a cgi-bin folder saying last modified 7-21-24

[Allan Rowe vs Wade]

Site works perfectly for me all the time tbh

[scott]

Site looks different today. Did someone update the fonts, thinking that would do the trick?

[cutewizard]

Guys, why dont we explore an alternative portal like DISCORD??

[cutewizard]

Guys, why dont we explore an alternative portal like DISCORD??

[cutewizard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBBgErz8d54

[cutewizard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBBgErz8d54