Tomorrow Untrodden

Greetings.

I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.

So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.

I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.

Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.

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November 5th, 2010
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Also, thanks to the success of the ads on YTMNDs, the new design will feature less ads on the main site. :-*
November 6th, 2010
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WHAT ABOUT THE DANCING BEARS!! i think we need more redic ads. might give ppls ytmnideas.
November 6th, 2010
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You stole my idea!
November 11th, 2010
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like dancingbear.com? why would we want ads for a site where whores blow strippers?
wait I forgot where I was...
November 11th, 2010
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well its better than those stupid ass t-shirt ads a while back, right?
February 2nd, 2011
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What have you done to ytmnd max it's HIDEOUS it's just like portal of fucking evil now except with media instead of links except it doesnt stretch to fit screen anymore are you trying to make this place appeal to some social minority that mainstream america generally doesnt approve of (is ytmnd going homo y/n)
November 9th, 2010
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BRING BACK VIEW RECENT COMMENTS ON YOUR SITES
December 1st, 2010
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http://www.ytmnd.com/users/me/comments?

It never left.
December 16th, 2010
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^ yeah what he said
November 9th, 2010
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Dude, you should test the site in Safari, because Safari hates YTMND at the moment...
December 1st, 2010
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That is very specific and helpful.
February 13th, 2011
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>implying that "success" and "YTMND" belong in the same sentence
November 5th, 2010
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Penis
November 5th, 2010
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We need more spam.
November 5th, 2010
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max, replace "all time ytmnd hits" with a theme section, just like the old Scientology YTMNDs section and Sega YTMNDs section. This should encourage new good content.
November 5th, 2010
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New design has a lot of different elements for the front page. The new front page is going to incorporate a lot more images, so it won't be so bland and overwhelming as it always has been.
November 5th, 2010
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Make it brighter, I don't like the dark wallpaper . Go back to standard orange-ish if you must
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i think the theme section would be awesome. maybe have a 'reviving dead fads" section.
November 5th, 2010
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bring back featured users!
November 5th, 2010
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Penis
November 5th, 2010
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14th or something
November 5th, 2010
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there should be a feature where you can somehow ear rape someone when they open your PM.
November 5th, 2010
20th
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haha, if you're on spy RIGHT NOW you can see a pathetic comment voting spat happening between the same queerly obsessed users.
November 5th, 2010
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Blue stars. I miss them.
November 5th, 2010
29th
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Good call. I hate not being able to see what I voted on a site.
November 5th, 2010
31st
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That's what jimmm said.
December 8th, 2010
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Spoiler alert: it was 5
November 5th, 2010
38th
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Very minor complaint, but can you make it so we can add comments to our favorites list again? Also fix all of the sites that don't work after the new update
December 1st, 2010
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Just hack-fixed this for now. You can add notes to your favorites, but have to refresh for them to show up.
November 5th, 2010
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That's very pleasant! As always I can't wait to see the new features!
May I suggest we make a new contest à la Jon Stewart's rally? Something like "Contest to restore Dogginess" or similar. A contest in which we, the 99.99% of the community, are fed up of the constant stream of shit delivered by the other 0.01%. I think a fun contest like that would help reconnect our community and make it a little stronger.
November 5th, 2010
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I killed my wife.
November 5th, 2010
58th
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No one left on this site deserves to be a moderator. Just saying.
November 5th, 2010
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H8rs as moder8rs
November 5th, 2010
82nd
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[i]NO ONE[/i], especially our fav troll buddy who stalks us, wisdu. haha, we're friends.
November 5th, 2010
114th
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haha he's our rival!
November 5th, 2010
147th
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Wild Umfuld Appears!

Wild Umfuld used SPITE!

It was uneffective! ..or whatever.
November 5th, 2010
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considering that BTape is still around, that obviously includes him
November 5th, 2010
61st
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thanks for the update
November 5th, 2010
62nd
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I think I visit this site a lot less because it's so damn ugly looking. Yes this was not useful or constructive at all but I wanted to get it off my chest.
November 5th, 2010
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I love YTMND, I come here every day [site getintotheaaa:site].
November 5th, 2010
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I think Michael Lebowitz is screwing you over.
November 5th, 2010
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The feed list is nice, but the most important one doesn't work. It never tells me when a friend has made a new site.
November 5th, 2010
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My feed is still displaying activity from April 1st thru 10th. I've tried clearing all the check boxes to refresh it, but it doesn't change. I've looked at some other users feeds, and they seem to have the same issue.
November 5th, 2010
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Yeah, the whole thing is glitched, but that one thing annoys me the most.
November 5th, 2010
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ctrl-f "superdreamkilla"

not found

disappointing
November 5th, 2010
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he's been deleted
November 5th, 2010
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We should all take some time for [site http://secrete.ytmnd.com:site]
November 6th, 2010
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Feature Request: URL detection in comments. Link juice for YTMND only.
November 9th, 2010
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I'm not going to pretend to understand the logic behind the decisions made here nor the functionality.
November 5th, 2010
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How I KNOE IM on Internet is gone! That was like one of the best sites ever. Sad day.
November 5th, 2010
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Zaalnog deleted most of his sites. I feel your pain :(
November 5th, 2010
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WHAT MADNESS IS THIS?!
November 5th, 2010
141st
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I just enemy'd him for that
November 5th, 2010
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!?!??
November 5th, 2010
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<_<

>_>

contests
November 5th, 2010
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This please. I liked contests.
November 5th, 2010
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[b]88 MILES PER HOUR![/b]
November 5th, 2010
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gayest comment on the news post.
November 5th, 2010
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I believe you got my email already about problems viewing sites, especially sites with a foreground & a background. The sound will play, and the foreground will play, but the background will only play a few frames, distort, and then repeat.
December 1st, 2010
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I'm not sure how to fix this because I can't reproduce it. :(
November 5th, 2010
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New limit on making sites!!!

When I say this, I mean to make a limit so people can stop site spamming.
http://weneedchange.ytmnd.com/

[u]Examples of what you can do:[/u]
A user can only make an X amount of sites in a day

A user can only make a site every 10 minutes.

A user can't make a site that they already used the name for. (Let's say a use made a site called "Sauce", well that user can't name another site called "Sauce" again.) And a user can't make 2 sites with the same audio, pictures, and content.
November 5th, 2010
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and this will stop the lurg bots from making 10 each at a rate of 5 or 10 on at a time
November 6th, 2010
211th
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Actually I suggested this before here http://thiscoulddoit.ytmnd.com/. Max actually implemented it and people bitched for a bit but it worked out great. Then for some strange reason he decided to remove the limit. I asked him why and his response was that he would just delete the user accounts of the offending users. Anyway long story short bring back the 1 site per hour limit, get some mods, have said mods remove bad apples and we might just have ourselves a website again. However personally I've given up hope of this place ever being anything like it used to be back in 2006.
November 5th, 2010
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YTMND II - The Richard Donner Cut
November 5th, 2010
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how about make it so exact asset combinations "as in foreground, background, sound" can only exist once so these rehashed spam sites cant keep being made?
November 5th, 2010
105th
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There's allegedly a feature that allows you to hide your enemies' sites and comments, but when I check the box in user preferences, nothing happens. (This would've been a handy tool for hiding all that spam)
November 5th, 2010
110th
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thats not helping the databases or wasted bandwith any
November 5th, 2010
112th
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http://makingastatementmnd.ytmnd.com/
November 5th, 2010
113th
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Why not get a better server who can load your pages faster before you worry about redesigning the site again.

i don't think many people give a shit how it looks if it doesn't load the pages quick.
November 5th, 2010
115th
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apparently lacrossestar83 likes slow loading pages. good on ya
November 5th, 2010
116th
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Are you gonna replace Meebo Chat in spy with something decent like AJAX Chat? I have it on my website and its awesome.
November 5th, 2010
138th
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Also please delete all of the new farkkkle's spam sites so I can have the most sites again
November 5th, 2010
142nd
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can't wait to see the replies to this
November 5th, 2010
150th
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Forget the spammers and the trolls, whoever gets to moderate needs to drop the hammer on the clown that posted this:

[site ilovebrooke:site]
November 5th, 2010
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Bring back the volume controls for individual YTMNDs.
November 5th, 2010
154th
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I was hoping your new site design was a April fools but its been 7 months. some of the features are nice but come on it reminds me of a early 90's porn site or something from the style project. i thought this layout was going to end up as the new nsfw ytmnd
November 6th, 2010
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uh oh, i see the comments in this news post turning pretty nasty pretty soon!
November 6th, 2010
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DIY CULTURE FUCK YEAH
November 6th, 2010
182nd
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here's something to think about:

some people in "the forum where the current state of the site is being discussed" are trying to figure out ways to solve the "personal sites" problem and the group voting problem. ok, these are problems i guess, but they are inevitable problems. or, inevitable symptoms of an online community. if you're trying to find concrete solutions to these problems, aren't you trying to limit

1) the user's right to post what they want

and

2) the users right to vote how they please

aren't number 1 and number 2 the most basic ideas that allow ytmnd to be ytmnd? wouldn't it be kind of fascist to try and regulate them?
November 6th, 2010
190th
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you have good points there. yes, i've been to funny or die. it's great, but the one thing that i always liked about ytmnd is that its more user oriented. all the garbage has always been part of the fun for me, but yeah, it certainly keeps away lots of users.

i guess i [i]would[/i] like to see this place grow up and become more like FoD or other places like that. that's what will save it.

i guess i'm agreeing with you. not that i was ever totally against you on the subject. 100% of my responses to you here were for the sole purpose of being a wiseass and making you respond. especially my above comment about fascism.

so yes, i would like a more rigid front page format, but i also wouldn't want to totally loose the internet-garbage aspect all together.
November 6th, 2010
202nd
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The oldest issue with ytmnd is that Max never took his baby really seriously. He's been running this site himself the entire span of its existence and could never keep up with the demands of the userbase, so they left. Instead of doing what any sensible person would do and turn ytmnd into a business and hiring people to keep up with demands and evolve the site and design, he insisted on keeping it completely static and self-contained within the community, only pushing to make vague promises of small incremental improvements based on a trickle of echo chamber demands (and even then he ignored some of that and made whatever you want to call YTMND 2.0). Max has never aggressively pushing for relevance, despite the clear opportunity to do so starting in mid 2006, ytmnd's peak, and that is why ytmnd has become the garbage heap of the internet instead of a viable alternative to other user-based media sites. Other sites grew up, and ytmnd festered and rot.
November 6th, 2010
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^This^
November 7th, 2010
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ytmnd reminds me alot of petter pan in the child theif, a blood thirsty manchild making friends until he gets bored with them and then kills them all the while not realizing his world is dying around him
November 8th, 2010
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I haven't "hired people to keep up with demand" because the majority of advertisers find [i]you guys[/i] worthless, this site never has (and most likely never will) make me rich, or even enough to hire anyone with a decent skill-set to help out on the workload.
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December 25th, 2010
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...also cocks
February 25th, 2011
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Points 1 and 2 are important components to ytmnd, and I would like to add that the other appeal ytmnd is the simplicity. Every feature that is [u]added[/u] seems to [u]take away[/u] from original simplicity.
November 6th, 2010
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Feature Request: Support for animated SVG graphics.
November 6th, 2010
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Example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Soccer_ball_animate
d.svg
November 6th, 2010
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Can't moot and the cool dudes from 4chan help you with anything max, considering you helped them with their servers and whatnot a year or so ago? I figured they would return the favor somehow.
November 6th, 2010
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steakman for mod 2010
November 6th, 2010
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how do I do some thing
November 6th, 2010
204th
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Hey Max, if you want to really drive Umfuld crazy, add a feature that graphs your sites' ratings over time.
November 7th, 2010
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lol this is exactly the kind of useless feature I would expect max to add
November 6th, 2010
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Bring back 2.50, but change it to 2.75. Make it so the 404 site doesn't show up on the front page.
November 7th, 2010
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"Bring back 2.50, but change it to 2.75."

What?
November 7th, 2010
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The rating threshold for top viewed.
November 7th, 2010
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Oh, I see. Yeah that needs to be fixed.
November 6th, 2010
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put more gay fuel into the website maybe then it will be funny
November 7th, 2010
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have it make me a sandwich, sorry, sudo have it make me a sandwich.
November 7th, 2010
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Spencer Brownstone Gallery is pleased to present the New York edition of BYOB, a one-night-exhibition exploring the medium of projection. 25 artists are invited to bring their own projectors to create a collaborative happening of moving light, sound and performance.

Friday, November 12, 2010, 6-10 PM
Spencer Brownstone Gallery,
39 Wooster St, New York City.
November 7th, 2010
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make ptkfgsmaster2maryo supermod
November 17th, 2010
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someone had to say it
November 7th, 2010
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I'm happy.™
November 7th, 2010
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1. The view metrics continue to be fucked up...
2. I had difficulty accessing the asset info for newly created sites
3. I think having comments go hidden is lame. If this has been brought up already, I missed it because half the comments above have been hidden.
November 8th, 2010
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I also need to add another

4. When I try to preview a site I made while using Chrome, all I get is the audio... no new window or tab opens. I have to close the tab I'm in to get it to stop.
November 7th, 2010
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Do something about this damn site spamming.

It's annoying when you make a new site, and not a lot of people can see it because all 6 pages are "ERIC THE VAMPIRE" and "Moonman is your mom".
November 7th, 2010
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youtube.com/allthewrongdudes
November 9th, 2010
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youtube.com/allthewrongdudes has one subscriber. His name is [b]Scumion[/b]!
November 28th, 2010
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Agreed.
Stupid and space-wasting spam sites need to die.
November 7th, 2010
255th
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the spam bots are on lets see some of that sexy iron fist
November 7th, 2010
259th
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there should be a section on the new front page where users can post pictures of themselves. like, it could be called "Pick List" and we could like, post pics from facebook or just mirror pics or like pics of whatever. i was edward cullen for halloween, and i've been dieing to get my costume pics onto ytmnd. i looked really good. i had sex that night. with a big fat pirate in the bathroom at a party. that is not a lie.

plus, i really want to see all kinds of real life user related stuff, like what cereal max ate for breakfast or what toilet paper brand feels the best on fourest's butt. like, if i could see a fourest-uploaded pic taken from the view of him sitting on the toilet, and you can see the opened Charmin Ultra Soft pack sitting next to the tub and like fourest's leg is blurry in the bottom corner of he pic, haha! that would be awesome.

if you could upload .txt files or microsoft word files, that would be cool. i wanna read poetry, short stories, emails, journal entries, whatever. if a user made it, i wanna see it.

everything i said is a lie. not the fat pirate part, unfortunately. i was fingering her butt and eating her out. i'm still waiting for my lips to break out and the roof of my mouth to turn to liquid.
November 7th, 2010
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[b]INACTIVE USER ________ FOR MOD 2006[/b]
November 7th, 2010
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What the hell is wrong with the Search engine? I can't get past 6/30/2010 on any search. It must be restored.
November 8th, 2010
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Yeah, I really like the advanced search feature, but if you can't search for newer sites, I'm better off using Google.
December 1st, 2010
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Fixed.
November 7th, 2010
266th
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"They call me Baba Booey" now available at your local bookstore.
November 7th, 2010
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Just wondering if there will be any fixes so that ytmnd doesn't get all those HTTP 400 errors when I try to open links, such as comments or site info, when using google chrome...
November 7th, 2010
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hey max, the front page could use a bit of that iron fist as its k-k-kaotic again
November 7th, 2010
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this site will be killed™
November 8th, 2010
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Was this a prophecy for all the "purging" that happened today?
November 8th, 2010
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Why do UC Poly students join the fraternity?

so they can Brocialize with their Brares!
November 8th, 2010
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my senior class unanimously decided that Cal Poly had the worst reference page of 4 schools we looked at.
November 8th, 2010
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umfeld is killin the site atm. wish i had powah.....
November 8th, 2010
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I see you rolled back the profile numbers, but new sites are still submitting at the point where superdreamkilla left off with the spamming, meaning 1000000/profile is probably still lost forever. Unless you make another fix.
November 14th, 2010
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Hey, he fixed it!
December 1st, 2010
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I also added code so site creation will be turned off after 999,999.
December 1st, 2010
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So, the millionth YTMND will be something special and not just posted by anyone?
December 1st, 2010
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LOLOLOLOLOL
November 8th, 2010
282nd
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here's something weird. when i'm logged in, viewing my user profile, it says i voted 1 on my own site, http://ravecatastrophe.ytmnd.com/
November 8th, 2010
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I just looked at my profile and it says I've voted 5 on two of my sites. That is weird.
November 8th, 2010
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I have apparently 1'd at least four of my own sites :(
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November 8th, 2010
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+1000 Internets for max.
November 8th, 2010
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The site creation time limit is now one site per hour, but with that fix, it screwed something else up. Now, if we make a site and realize it needs edits to fix sync, etc, we have to wait a whole hour to make edits.
November 9th, 2010
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yeah that's no good, probably an easy fix though
December 1st, 2010
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Just implemented a fix for this, lemme know if it [doesn't] work[s].
December 1st, 2010
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It works!!
November 8th, 2010
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http://bluestars.ytmnd.com/
November 9th, 2010
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lol, I made a "Bring Back Blue Stars" site almost 4 years ago http://leavingbluestarmachine.ytmnd.com/
December 1st, 2010
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blue stars should be back again now. The lookups are a fairly large toll on the DB so they are on dedicated slave db (which also does predictions). If the slave gets desynched, no blue stars.
November 9th, 2010
312th
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I need to be able to see my votes (the purple? stars that show up after i vote) they show up immediately but upon any refresh they are gone. As a high volume voter it is very discouraging and wasteful to vote on a site and have "what" pop up meaning i already viewed/voted. It's been this way since at least may, it was a problem before then, but was fixed, but then came back.
Also it would be nice to have random ytmnd back and working; random.ytmnd.com goes to a site once "unviewable."
Also i can vote on most sites while they load, so i don't have to view them. I usually do view them, but if my internet is going slow, then i don't.
FIX:YTMND needs to rise back to its glory days of 05/06, but i guess that falls to the users making good content.
November 9th, 2010
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PLEASE fix the fact that when I vote I can't see how many stars I gave a ytmnd at the same time as I see what the average rating is anymore. It used to be so convenient to tell if I'd seen an old ytmnd or not. Some of us have been here for years and don't want to look at random dick shots or hear loud screeching sounds we downvoted years ago.
November 9th, 2010
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[b]new problem[/b] Search function seems to be fucked. Results aren't any good. A search for John Whitecloud doesn't reveal any John Whitecloud sites. They also used to be sorted by rank, now they are not.
November 9th, 2010
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also, add the loop from the following site to the "site is down" rotation: [site http://putukeonhead.ytmnd.com/:site]
December 1st, 2010
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( ._.)
November 10th, 2010
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I think I read most of the comments in this journal post twice. I feel very concerned about the situation that is creating here. I sense so much hate, whether it is staged or not. I don't want to talk about me, but I have to tell you this: I'm quite a sensitive person and I visit this site maybe 20 times a day. I like to see what people share, I like the funny stuff, but when I look harder I read the comments, I see downvotes driven by pure hate, jealousy or even for no reason at all (dare I say "just for fun".) And since the site is up again the negativity is palpable more than ever. I'm even experiencing it firsthand, thanks to a user who doesn't act like his/her blood is flowing to his/her brain. As Max said in a post in 2007 (I'm paraphrasing,) freedom of speech is ok, but when the shit hits the fan you have to spend a lot of time cleaning the fan. And a soapy sponge is not enough.
I like to imagine this site as a place where you have fun, reflect and discuss about what people feel important to share. Do we really have to fight against each other, for things which don't even concern our role in this community? Do we have to scream and offend, saying the obvious most of the time? Do we have to judge, condemn and bash just because we think we have a right to say whatever we want?
I live in a place where school books used to be regulated by the "government" and still there's a lot to complain about openness. Stephen Colbert often jokingly says "Freedom isn't free." Maybe he's right, if you think about it. We have been given a chance to express ourselves, by a sole person. Let's not spoil this opportunity, we cannot take anything for granted. For the sake of this community, behave yourself. All of us. Me too.
November 10th, 2010
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I like you. This is like a comment that I would have made 2-3 years ago.

Oh my god, why have I been on ytmnd for over 3 years. Jesus Christ.

Anyway, here's the thing: trying to instigate positivity and productivity from the apathetic/pathetic masses of ytmnd is meaningless. Most of the users active in the community are trolls or mental cases, or something in between. Of those listening who are not part of the problem, 90% of them have observed the community climate and have independently reasoned something to the affect of what you have said, so they don't need to hear it, and don't get involved ever. They are the type of people that intuitively avoid any and all pissing contests, and are very self-assured, of both their stature and penis size, but because they are non-interventionists nothing gets improved. The other 10% tread lightly and are fucking awesome. Or at least, this is what I tell myself.
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*over 4 years
November 15th, 2010
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Man, I wish the whole world thought like that.
November 10th, 2010
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Max can you make a ytmnd/spy link in the top tab. I'm 800 lbs and I feel like I get overworked having to type in the url manually to stalk other users.
November 10th, 2010
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all I have to do is type "y" in my search browser and it's the first thing that comes up. Also, you can just make a tab for it in your own browser. I like how the Spy is kind of an Easter Egg. not everybody knows about it. let's keep it that way so we don't get all the idiots in there going "ASL???" "ANY HAWY GIRLS PRESS#348923"
November 11th, 2010
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here's a cut and paste from a PM i sent in response to a user asking if they should continue various ytmnd projects they had started:

also, ive been working on 4 sites, high quality edits, but ive been doing so much other stuff. then, when i click back here and see the latest inside joke site by jimmm/8bit/gnu/theebatman or whoever, 5 pde sites abot nothing that play random overplayed music, 1 or 2 lax83 earrape sites, 15 gifs from other websites, the same typical pandering (PANDERING) umfuld sites that draw from the same 4 assets sources, displaying jokes other people made, that look like legolewdite got sligtly better image editing software and - WOAH - there's an identifiable message being portrayed (usually of the lamest sort) as opposed to a completely inane mashup of image, speech and instrumentals, sites by other users that show after effects tutorials verbatim, fourest's new formula, bad funny-internet-faggot joke, general fod's craptastic unfuny box image inside boc image mattdh12 wannabe plus father mckenzie wannabe slash alternative appeal gone wrong site, maybe a bad bored jedi site about a dead fad, ...then, wow, then.... jeeez, that really makes me want to keep doing this, makes me want to finish my nice edits, especially when i have actual film projects to do that are not gifs, that do not run on a max of 10 frames per second, that a wider community may see and enjoy, that.....is not associated with these seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriou
November 11th, 2010
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"What?" blue stars. a guy could get used to this.
November 11th, 2010
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hi max, i din't read the rest of the comments, but i just wanted to say that having the publish button right next to the preview button has caused me to unintentionally publish sites instead of previewing them. maybe it should be far away from the preview button or something.
November 12th, 2010
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Lists please
November 12th, 2010
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Come on guys, if we're talking new mods, this guy needs to be in the mix: http://votefor.ytmnd.com/

He's an obvious choice.
November 12th, 2010
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In this News Post, a user by the handle of "Umfuld" referred to himself as "one of the highest rated YTMNDers of all time," and found several other ways to express this exact belief.

http://ytmnd.com/sites/top_rated/alltime

[i]oh, I'm on that list.[/i]
November 12th, 2010
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He's one of the highest rated and the most downvoted YTMND user of all time.
November 12th, 2010
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yes, he is very highly rated for how much of a cocksucker he acts like.
November 12th, 2010
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i cant even really seriously talk shit. it doesn't matter how much (little) he accomplishes ratings-wise over these gay nerds. he's screaming about it all over the news. beyond. gay.
November 13th, 2010
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I think he has a site on page 6. I have a mild inclination to get on there, and be at least one site above him.
November 12th, 2010
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@MAX, here's something i'm surprised hasn't been brought up:

can you make it we can check "only my sites" on spy? i miss that! with all these social network type features, why is that one gone? i want to track who voted on my sites.
November 14th, 2010
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I've been refreshing every so often to check for new votes/comments on my new site. I haven't had to do that since 2006 in the pre-spy days.

COME ON MAX GET WITH THE TIMES
November 13th, 2010
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November 13th, 2010
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November 13th, 2010
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am i comment banned?
November 13th, 2010
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Thank you Max Goldberg for fixing blue stars. Everything feels right again.
November 14th, 2010
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everything?
November 13th, 2010
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Please get the ability to add a note/comments to our favourites working again. The little note button doesn't even link to anything. Please fix it!!
November 14th, 2010
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[i]USER STATUS UPDATES[/i] right below our usernames on our user profiles. twitter limit or less. that could be fun/funny/silly and easy/harmless. you've already added all these social network features. why not complete the popped squat?
November 15th, 2010
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ytm died
November 15th, 2010
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No more japanese food before bed
November 15th, 2010
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i have 4 high effort sites almost ready to go. 2 of them are pandering crowd pleasers and two of them are more my kind of humor. even users who hate me/harass me/alt downvote me might like them.

however, i'm just not going to post them right now. what would be the point in that? it sucks i have to wait.
November 15th, 2010
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Why can't you post them now?
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so they can be alt downvoted and not viewed? even if they didnt get alt downvoted, hardly anyone would see them.
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November 16th, 2010
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Please fix the rating system. Can't tell if I've seen something already and what I voted.
November 16th, 2010
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http://fpaauditions.ytmnd.com/ Max, what happened to this old site of mine? It's only playing the first 6 frames of the GIF. I downloaded the file and all the frames are still there.
December 1st, 2010
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The number of frames of an animated GIF your browser plays is your browser's fault, each browser will play them differently. It's probably a badly formatted GIF.
December 6th, 2010
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Thanks, you were right. I resaved the GIF and reuploaded it. It's working now.
November 16th, 2010
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http://vimeo.com/4695087
November 16th, 2010
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Macks, hurry up and release YTMND 5.99
November 17th, 2010
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Every night around 1am eastern time, the spy stops working, comments aren't posting, PMs are not being shown as sent, and votes aren't registering. I'm not sure if this is due to the site rollover, or what. Tonight is the third day in a row that it has happened.
November 17th, 2010
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All of that is happening for me too.
December 1st, 2010
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hmm. Might be due to some unintended locks. I'll look into it.
November 17th, 2010
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It was 2009 the last time a news thread got 500 comments (see Crimson and Clover)
November 18th, 2010
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I was actually just thinking it's been a while. I'm sure it's just the same people commenting a little bit more, and not a bigger user population or something like that.
November 18th, 2010
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Are the suckers who forked over $50 for a custom username color finally going to get a custom username color?
November 18th, 2010
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I think max said a long while ago that they won't.
November 18th, 2010
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party
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November 18th, 2010
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Fuck test
November 19th, 2010
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max why does YTMND run so slowly in the middle of the night, and sometimes actually breaks down then?
November 19th, 2010
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It runs slow for me all the time.
November 19th, 2010
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Back in 1978, then President Jimmy Carter told us we need to conserve on resources. Max is still compliant.
December 1st, 2010
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Only thing I could think of is the site vies tally which happens around 1-2am. But it shouldn't be a major slowdown.
December 2nd, 2010
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It's much slower than the view tally used to be.
December 3rd, 2010
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I think one issue is with so much retention, there are hundreds of millions of rows more than there used to be. It's mostly optimized, but could use some more work.

I've slated some new server purchases for YTMND (for the first time in quite a few years). One being a new master database server and one being a new static content server. Both of which will be entirely run on SSDs (both of the servers being replaced are utilizing nearly 100% of their disk bandwidth) as well as significant CPU/Memory improvements.
November 19th, 2010
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FYI the "all time ytmnd hits" is really some piss-poor YTMNDS.
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