So I think the general consensus is that things are a bit dusty around here. I don't disagree. It's kinda come to the point where we have to decide to kill it all, or support it.

We've never made a cent from any of this; this site has never had ads, and I don't want it to ever have any. I see the porn ads on the porn site - I presume DK gets some cash from it, I dunno, I don't (for all I know somebody hacked the site and put them on themselves) - but they certainly don't pay the bills, since I pay them. I haven't actually seen DK for .. probably 10 years at this point (known each other for ~25 years now) and we barely ever even communicate. So it's kinda hard to just work on stuff, brainstorm, do things etc. Life got in the way.

I do like it here though. I like the little playground and I've been happy to see a couple of old names back in the haunt (because honestly there's so few new regulars coming around, you guys are pretty much the only reason the sites are still online). So my thoughts are;

The servers that run all of this have been kicking around for longer than is healthy, starting from around 2007/8 (and they weren't new then either). They all have failing disks; they're all well underpowered for what we need these days. Honestly I'm shocked they're still limping along at all. My plan is to replace them. I'm looking at options, be it stealing some or buying a few new ones and shipping them off to the rack we have at the hosting company. I dunno. But I'll find some replacement hardware.

Pigfucker.. I mean DK.. has said he'll put some work into things if I do that; modernising the sites a bit, making them more supportable and a bit less bug ridden. He hasn't said it but he can also fix the smileys and forum system so it's all a bit easier; bring back 'anonymous' posting but maybe with some anti spam front end or something. So that's the plan.

It's not going to be fast. If things work out the way I'm kinda hoping next week, I might get a handful of servers arranged and can look at shipping them. So perhaps by kinda.. July/August period. Even if I can leverage some free hardware I'm looking at about $500 each to ship the fuckin' things so none of it is going to be cheap (and international shipping right now is nigh on impossible). I just wanted to let you guys know that things are kinda being planned in the background.

That said - no promises