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Add me to the list of people going who is this person?But not Mike Gentry. Fuck that guy
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He can produce decent content — I’ve never read anything by him I’d categorize as “great”. Unfortunately he seems unable to set them aside these days. (And by “these days” I mean the last few years.)
In-Joke from the Wild West days of TBP. Everything is his fault.
Thanks for posting these!I wanted to share some good news. Every few months I check to see how the Pub is doing in global metrics compared to similar sites. I will post two sets of numbers from Alexa, which is perhaps the most well known of these providers. These are worldwide rankings of popularity and interest at any one time. The first set is from May of this year and the second set is from today. I compared the Pub to theRPGSite, RPGnet and ENWorld.
May 15, 2019:
RPGPub: #994,855
theRPGSite:#314,714
RPGnet: #41,705
ENWorld: #24,162
November 8, 2019
RPGPub: #472,880
theRPGSite: #663,599
RPGnet: #57,494
ENWorld: #27,712
We are doing quite well and have showed a lot of growth. Thank you everyone for your support and I’m sure we can do even better in 2020.
For those curious. The number to the right of the raw rank is a ratio to the top RPG site.Just for fun I checked the numbers again. A week later, we moved up to #405,170, about 70,000 spots higher.
I saw that too! I'm thinking of writing a little script to check the stats and post here if I find the timeI don't want to put too much stock in this but the Pub is at #398,912 as of today. For those who are unaware, the closer to #1 you are, the better, and if you get into the top 100,000, that's really good for metrics.
Creeping up, a few ranks at a time!
I saw that too! I'm thinking of writing a little script to check the stats and post here if I find the time
rm *index*|wget -i sites/rpgsites.txt;grep -h \<strong *| sed 's/<strong>//'|sed 's/<\/strong> has Alexa Rank <strong>/ /'|sed 's/<\/strong> <\/div>//'|sort -k2 -n
rpgsites.txt should contain:
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=enworld.org&button=
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPG.net&button=
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGgeek.com&button=
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=tenkarstavern.com&button=
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGPub.com&button=
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=therpgsite.com&button=
https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=dragonsfoot.org&button=
I've noticed a definite increase in the royalties I receive per post.
Are they paying you that much? I've been taken for a ride!What a thousandfold, in that a thousand nothings is nothing?
As a Black Friday deal, for ten Baulderbux, you can get a copy of Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, and you'll get back thirteen Dumaritos in change!Recognised legal tender on the pub is the BaulderDollar
Yeah, he was actually doing pretty good with his OSR stuff, but I haven’t seen much product from him lately.Never thought about the lack of moderation, but you’re probably right.
And it’s cool that moderation here is so often as simple as “whoa everyone, let’s chill” and to the best of my recollection no actual posters caught a ban here, ever.
Regarding Pundit, I don’t even know that he’s into gaming anymore. It’s all... well... you know. That thing we don’t discuss here? That.
for those curious and with a linux or cygwin install.
from wherever you run the scrip create a scripts directory with a file called rpgsites.txt.
rm *index*|wget -i sites/rpgsites.txt;grep -h \<strong *| sed 's/<strong>//'|sed 's/<\/strong> has Alexa Rank <strong>/ /'|sed 's/<\/strong> <\/div>//'|sort -k2 -n rpgsites.txt should contain: https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=enworld.org&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPG.net&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGgeek.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=tenkarstavern.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=RPGPub.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=therpgsite.com&button= https://www.3dcart.com/lp/alexa-rank/?url=dragonsfoot.org&button=
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.I didn’t think I’d see Linux on the pub but I am thankful.
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.
I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?
I had a linux box once, but it was very, very picky about when it would play MP3's so I wound up ditching it. Since then, my only experience of it is setting up basic license servers; I'm very much a Windows person these days.Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.
I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?
Get enough mid 40's geeks at any place Linux is bound to work it's way into a conversation.
I'm curious about the younger folks here. I'm kind of assuming OS familiarity is common. How many folks here under 40 have some familiarity with Linux?
What are we paying this man?I've noticed a definite increase in the royalties I receive per post.
I have no idea what any of this post means.Ubuntu: An ancient Bantu word meaning "I can't install Debian."
I do have Linux on one of my extensive collection of Thinkpads but I'm on a brick wall getting Optimus to work. I can't help thinking I've missed something but my google-fu is a complete failure at this point. Every now and then I see someone running Linux on the train - including a gentleman after my own heart with Kali on his crusty old T420. This may have had libreboot firmware or he may simply have liked old-style 7-row keyboards.
I may just time out with this and rebuild my T430 with Linux as it just has onboard graphics, which should work out-of-the-box. The other option I'm considering is just to run it in a VM on a Windows host. Not sure if that absolves you from getting Optimus working though - I suppose one could commune with it over xming or some such.
In case you're wondering why, a make-based LaTeX toolchain works better on linux, although it is possible to do it on Windows with gnu win32 - which is based on msvcrt so it understands native windows drive mappings (but has a much slimmer feature set than cygwin.[1])
I'm quite pleasantly surprised to see someone who knows how to write a shell script. Not sure you would have gotten that out of one line of Powershell.
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1 - my fave unix-on-windows is of course NT4 Services For Unix, which had a kill command that actually does what it says on the tin. It ignored all the user space security Windows put on its own process killing and just terminated the process. This made NT4 SFU the most useful piece of systems software that Microsoft ever published. MS, of course, deprecated the feature in later releases, but NT4 SFU still worked on most versions of Windows 2000 and 2003, at least in its 32 bit incarnations.
Mein gott, Microsoft does put a lot of shit in its userspace.