INORITE!!!!

we complained to Plurk but they were pretty decided. the worse? some themes hides it! so it's inconsistent from plurk profile to another.

When you view a plurk without being signed in you're given a model "sign up" dialog in front of the content. I hate that even more.

ugh yes

I complained when I worked there, but they insisted it was vital. There was no tracking of how well it worked at the time, so I dunno.

i kinda like the new popup image thing despite the ads (adblocking here) but some people seems to hate it.. its less useful than it could be

I think I approve of that. I'm undecided.

It's sad. There were all these plans for making money without throwing ads anywhere, none of which were ever implemented. Then banner ads.

yeah i can't blame them for needing to put some ads i guess...

This may or may not be my fault, since they were effectively thrown at me and I was told to go make it happen.

they put you in change of monetizing it?

Well, implementing the monetizing, at any rate. My response was, approximately, bewilderment.

I imagine I still have the documents somewhere, though I certainly shouldn't and I don't know where. Some backup.

gotcha. i always wondered what their plan was since this thing seems to be using a shitload of bandwidth and resources

Eh… it's not all that much. The S3/CloudFront bill is/was the greatest expense after salaries.

(Though that bill was once described as "eye-watering". I decline to comment further. )

I think the basic funding proposal for a good while was "Kan is rich."

yeah i kinda guessed everything was stored on a commercial cloud somewhere. is the tokyo tyrant rig also on a cloud setup?

hahaha

Nah, that's on (heavily virtualised) Plurk-owned servers. Check the IP allocation.

Though it's certainly on a "cloud" setup in the sense of "we have a decently sized pool of servers backing this thing".

nodsnods

Running it locally with the whole stack on a single machine was always fun! Especially with the push backend changing semi-weekly.

Amazon also rents virtualized CPUs so i was wondering

haha i bet

Indeed, AjaxLife ran on their virtualised CPUs. It's the only reason it stayed up for so long – it swapped IPs when LL banned it.

(That and there were sometimes multiple instances running.)

I do miss my administrator god account, though. Forcing myself to 100 karma was fun!

(Without doing that I could never get above about 98.)

haha i bet! i reached 100 once but i froze it and stuck to 99% forever. in that time you could not go over 100, it was capped.

I know. Uncapping was after my time.

hehehe good old stories!

its been more than 4 years i'm in here now. time flies.

I was first here over four years ago, but that account is gone, and this account with the same name has replaced it

what date was it registered?

I'm afraid I have no idea and have no way of finding out, unless I happen to have a screenshot of the old profile.

If I happen to still have a copy of the plurk source around I could give its numeric sequence, since it was hardcoded as an admin account.

But I'm pretty sure I disposed of all of those.

it's fine just curious.

if i wasn't the first i was one of the first.. then it started like a wildfire hehe

I'm sure I was after you.

bah it's not really important anyways

You are user number 10,685. I was in the range of either 7,000 or 70,000. I forget which.

haha nice!! i didn't know my unique ID XD

Actually, found it in an old twitterbot log, I think – I'm 34,163.

And this account is number 5,334,651.

haha that's awesome. how do you get the IDs?

They're buried in the source, in the line of JS beginning with SETTINGS = – "user_id: foo

var SETTINGS = {"search_me": 0, "global_filter": null, "user_id": 5334651,…

niiiiiiice

yeah okay i see it now

As an easy way to view it without visiting user pages, it's also buried in the URL of all non-default images.

Uhh, that should be non-default avatar images.