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Work on the bugs and the situation in general
🕑 Added 2015-11-21 17:31:53 +0000 UTCturned. So - all the errors that have been reported in the previous thread have been corrected. If someone else encountered these errors - email me and I will fix them as well.
And a couple of words about the mechanism of removal of pictures, caused some surprise among multiple users.
1. Initially Patreon in principle not allowed to download 4K-res images on your website. And that led me to having to download these pictures to card sharing services. As you know the shelf life of images there was limited anyway 7-14 days of life.
This procedure takes some amount of personal time, about an hour ineach update (multiple downloads for different levels of access).
2. Then, on one of the most popular services sharinga happened virus infection through vulnerability their banner system.
Then Patreon broke, and I discovered that there are a club greedy monkeys, devoted much of his time to attempts to destroy this comic.
3. All this and some other factors have led us to the idea of ??creation of the card sharing service, adapted for all these nuances. And we created the update server. It compensates for the absence of Patreon those functions which we would like to have in our work. It allows all honest sponsors in a more convenient way to receive updates.
for example: the validity of links, as in the case sharinga service does not expire ever - you can spend a month on vacation and away from the Internet, go back and see all the updates - they will wait for you indefinitely.
However, because the images for each sponsor individual and total images in the
server disk space reaches 50 GB, we do not want to receive the high cost of the server (it is required to raise the size of the minimum donations, and we do not want to change the price as long as it is perhaps).
automatic removal was one of the features of the first version of the server. However, we did not include it in the hope that most users will have already received their own to remove the picture. As it turned out we overestimated the "human factor" and now this feature is enabled. We
believe that any user can easily save a picture to their hard drive or
in memory of a tablet with three attempts;) If someone is a problem -
you can contact us and we will restore all the pictures in the account. It's completely free. Moreover - we plan to create user accounts in the picture "to restore
all images" by clicking which you will be able to return all the
pictures back.
Deleting images after a certain number of views is not dictated by some absurd greed, but only the desire to optimize the costs of the technical part of the project.
repeat - we could spend a lot of money on the update server, do not take it out, and buy ... but in this case a large part of the team would have seriously reduced the motivation to work. We are trying to preserve and motivation and convenience sponsors honest and pleasant heart indignant squeal pirates =) This is a natural
balance in nature;)
We are trying to do the job to the server as convenient and simple, but at the same time - we should not forget that one of the functions of the server - the protection of our labor.
Of course this is not absolute protection, and any who wish to donate a membership in the club - could still steal the picture. It is not allows us to invest in the future - to buy its own server for $ 2,5k, instead of using leased. And many other such massive costs. We try to keep a balance.
We thank you all for your patience and tried as quickly as possible to correct errors that inevitably arise in the process of development.
Already the update server allows our team to save more than 40 hours of routine
work, care earlier work with the accounting and downloading pictures on the card sharing service.
We tried to make as many pictures per month and improve the service as much as possible. But our team - just 3 people. We can not keep up sometimes something. But we will catch up;) Thanks again to everyone for your patience!
but now I immerse myself in the intensive work on updates.
