>>111701
Please avoid auto-redirecting to mobile site based on user agent or ip or other arsenuggetry. I suggest a link in the footer of every page somewhere, or right above where it says kusaba x 0.9.3 + serverload right now.

:thumbsup:

>>111708
The solution we want wouldn't require having a mobile site with a subdomain. Whether or not we can get it done is the big question, though.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/we-still-need-more-https-government-middleboxes-caught-injecting-spyware-ads-and


So... How's that new site coming guys?

>>111971

The sticking point is migrating the existing threads onto the new site. If we wanted to start over fresh, it would have been done months ago.

>>109071
I've started work on the CSS for the new site. Phone (and other small resolution browser) support is a priority.

>gubmnt trak us!
>hurr i fix css
Stop chasing off normal users or no one will see your css except tumblerite btards, moron. There is no government department pathetic enough to spy on you.

Never thought I'd say this but bring serv back, swissguy and the other faggots have run this website so far into the ground it would take an act of God to dig it up.

>>112059
>bring serv back
how did you post this without getting a 500 error?

>>112059
>swissguy
been gone from running this place for years

>and the other faggots have run this website so far into the ground it would take an act of God to dig it up
I don't disagree this place is dying and even the super sekrit board is pretty slow. I would like to see new features actually implemented and maybe its time to nuke /n/ completely.

>>112060
>maybe its time to nuke /n/ completely.

well that's pretty much the only option since the staff refuses to do anything about the ruble battalion.

>>112061
>well that's pretty much the only option since the staff refuses to do anything about that one Russian guy who posts from time to time
FTFY

>>112062
>"he only posts sometimes!"

And yet ever since Russia invaded Ukraine anything mildly critical of Russia on here has been met with a unceasing torrent of whining and off-topic "so what if Russia is funding the Taliban! you are lynching negroes!" distraction.

Waiting for site migration.

If we're migrating, archive /n/ but maybe don't create a new one?

There isn't enough traffic for /n/ to be its own board and it's basically /t/ at this point anyways.

So if we are doing something like an old OPchan museum, how will it be organized and how will it be accessible?

This was all started in the patch thread but I guess continuing this convo here would get threads back on their respective rails.

Coming a little out of left field here, but any thoughts on following the trends and doing an Opchan Discord?

>>112389

there is one actually: https://discord.gg/VMZxDBQ

more stuff about piss tubes

>>109071
lynxchan

What's a decent way to bring this website back to life?

>>112730

Well, one thing we haven't done is moved to the new software, mostly because there doesn't seem to be a good way to migrate the old content to the new site.

If everyone is ok with kind of starting fresh, I can see about maintaining this site (locked) as an archive for a period of time.

One big problem was no money for anything, which via patreon and patch sales we've pretty much fixed.

>>112730

also come inna discord, talk to opchan peoples

>>112732
Shouldn't you be able to run this on a $5 VPS or is there something I'm missing?

>>112739

With the new software almost yes, not quite $5 but certainly much much cheaper. The old software can't be ported. It's too ancient and shitty. Even stopping and restarting it is risky.

1. Expand that little Irc section to a full list of off site communities we can keep updated. We have a steam community and I'm sure plenty of us have consoles. I guess the Facebook group is still around.

2 Put up a high traffic trash board like /dmz/ that's easy to access. Last time this site had a good influx of traffic was 10 or so years ago when /k/ came here from other chan going down for a brief time. I like specialty areas, but we need a place with high activity and general banter. Basically this >>111337

Of course mobile friendly would help, but I suppose we can use the app.

Mostly, we need to encourage more posting, too much rules kills the board. I came here looking for info on the government shutdown. It's almost the happening that half of /k/ has talked about for a decade, nothing in news why isn't that the first thing I see?

>>112744

Good ideas

>>109071

1. Enable catalog view.

2. Have a /WSG/ section.
-SFW
-Sticky with educational webms that teach from how to start shooting all the way to advanced skills and long range.
-Another sticky listing board rules & etiquette.

3. Advertise.
-Get people to come here.
-Turn this into a refuge from 4chan's /k/
-Make shit lively
-Convince the mods to actively or routinely post new content, people will at least check in to see what's changed.

4. Once there are enough visitors, try tactical gear raffles in the PBE store to help raise money & keep site afloat financially.
-Say an item costs $150, Make 15 spots at $12/each. Once all the tickets are paid for, make a .webm of the drawing using a number randomizer or dice, something. That raffle would bring in $30. Eventually prizes get cooler.

Bring back the PBE store, but do it right this time.
-Maybe work with Ivan at the kommandostore or something.
-Talk Ivan into buying more awesome milsurp and sell it on his site... like those Marine Corps fleeces or the marpat packs. Or do that for the PBE store and raise some money.
-Let patchbros use a page on the PBE store to hock their wares. Someone makes an order, it goes to the patchmaker, payment handled through a payment system and the patchmaker gets his money once he sends proof of postage.

5. Find someone to do or post series regarding various weapon assemblies/disassemblies while explaining the functions and benefits behind each design on /st/.

6. Make a /meet/map
-Get someone to help make a map or an overlay for google maps/earth that shows public land where people can shoot, ranges, military museums, battlefields, etc.
-Set up a /meet/ calendar for events, keep it updated

7. Create a /diy/ board
-Someone wants to post all of Larry Potterfield's videos showing you how to fuck with guns? They can go to /WSG/ or /diy/ to make a thread with lower sized .webm videos.
-Sewing pattern threads for making your own tactical gear
-Want a thread to discuss how to NOT die in a buried shipping container bunker? Here you go.
-Great place for fieldcraft & medical knowledge

This chan can be something worthwhile if the guys running it put in the effort.

>>112767

Also... start a campaign to bring back murdercube.com

This may be a stupid question, but aside from youtube, what other video hosting services could we embed on the new board?

Currently I see Dailymotion, Vimeo, and Liveleak. Could we include Bitchute, Full30, and/or other hosting sites? With youtube's faggotry towards censorship, freedom, and firearms, I don't think it's a bad idea to encourage other hosting services whenever possible.

>>112771

Seconding this, BitChute particularly. I have plans for that place.

>>109085

Oh, for fuck's sake, now I feel dumb for not thinking to try that.

Oh, and also, better mobile support. Or, ya know, mobile support of any sort.

This thread promising great improvements that are 'just around the corner' was founded in March of 2017

The main thing I'd like to see is a mobile friendly /b/ /t/ /k/ dmz whatever type thing that keeps an active and largely unmoderated (minus illegal activity of course) thread rolling so we can see and engage in something that's continually active.

Not everything needs to be categorized, what we're missing a crap filled chan style thread that has any and everything from the latest shot in hoboken news to whatever other irrelevant bs we might want to discuss that day with other anons.

After that whatever, make it a social app with an opchan themed wiki or something.

This site offers 2 things, social banter for like minded people and a database of their combined knowledge and opinions. What it lacks is the /k/ type thread that brought many of us here nearly a decade ago when other chan was down.

Let's be real there's a community here of those us who have been on mIRC, meet, gaming community etc. Let that be what it is and then let us have our "anon" banter. I miss this place but I can also see posts I made on here 5 years ago...

A knowledge archive is great, so is the weird community thing, but we also need that dynamic ever changing thread that's continually relevant for the day, but not for 2010, and if it's accessible by phone all the better.

Site works perfectly as it is without javascript.

Please don't FUCK US OVER by switching to something that requires javascript to post.

Also, be careful not to fuck over us Tor users; some chan software attempts to block Tor users by default.

Vichan software is nice, runs on PHP.

>>109155

Best VPN? They're all dogshit.

Use Tor. I won't even touch and of the chans without Tor these days; too many CIAniggers.

>>113126
You do know that the Eye of Sauron is already upon you, just for coming here, or visiting any of the chans, or even a place like ARFCOM, right?

70% of TOR exit nodes are owned by the NSA, and rising.

>>113159
Stands to reason but do you have any source to back that very specific claim?

Oh and to quote one Wilhuff Tarkin:

"I maintain that the effectiveness of the Star Destroyer stems from not only its massive firepower, but from its
size. When [mouthbreathing right brainers] look at a Star Destroyer and then compare it to the craft which might be mustered to attack it, they have a tendency to dismiss such a notion as suicidal rather than approach the problem tactically."

>Eye of sauron
Please gtfo with (((your))) unseemly metaphors.

>>113161
Meanie!

It's dead

>>112247

This thread stands as a monument to when management just doesn't care.

>>113450

stand by

>>113505
Piss off.

We both know it'll be kinder than letting it suffer.

Get rid of the fucking frames.

This is not the early 2000's

>>113671
Okay.
Got a new chan software and a way to port all the content on the existing site over?

Opchan didn't die, it was murdered. By circlejerks from IRC and Discord bringing their nepotism to the boards. By the admins halfassing absolutely every fucking thing. By moderation having a laff while parasites like Clio settled in and systematically "cancelled" old guard posters that made half of the content because they thought the flame wars were funny. By the site inexplicably drifting Liberal or "everyone is dumb but me" "neutral" during the runup to the election five years ago.

If anyone who ran this place gave one tenth of a fuck about it or any of the people who used it, it would still be plenty busy. And the only reason there is "no way" to adapt the old content to new software is because the bitches whose job it was to make it happen had no will to find one.

>>113680

What "canceled" the old guard was not Clio, but the blatantly obvious Russian shills shitting up every thread, and the tone shift that came with it. Seriously this place took a turn that made stormfront seem palatable in the lead up to 2016. The discord definitely slipped even further and just concentrated the degenerates.

The fact that you think this place turned *more* liberal in the runup is astounding.

>>113691
>"Russian shills"
>"Russian bots"
>"Russian collusion"
>"Muh Russia"

Back to reddit, lefty.

>>113698
it's not like half of /n/ is red text on gookbot shillposts or anything.

>>113691
>>113698
Yeah, 2016 made people believe that all Chans were WN territory.

Instead of shitposters, I just wanna shitpost about guns and warfare. I don't care if you're as black as the ace of spades or white as the driven snow. Keep you new world IDPOL the fuck away from me.