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    Jamie Walker?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    7 hours ago, singe said:

    It certainly used to be. Ackey will be able to give us the SP on this

    I can't speak to what the resource levels are like internally at Latics these days, but with Big Gordy not around (irrespective of his change in role) and the constantly shrinking budget I'd be astounded if there's more than when I was there. 

     

    Which for context, in terms of non-voluntary and full time employees, was... Me.  Mike, Roy and others all chipped in with time and a hell of a lot of effort, but were not there Monday to Friday.  For what it's worth, seeing as I've not ranted about it for a long while, I was on well-below minimum wage when you accounted for the hours worked. Again, I am sure the current folks are just as stretched, and most days were 7 until 5 without any real break, midweek games that would be 7 until 11, obviously I worked all Saturdays and at least a few hours each Sunday, editing highlights on a laptop slow as hell.  Still got slagged off for missing a letter or dropping a comma out of place, of course. 

     

    Oh, and the part of the site in question is indeed outsourced. You could chase them in my day, to correct it, but that was often like talking to yourself. Alan H was usually the one to have success with that, as it was the kind of thing which infuriated him and he had more senior contacts at the vendor. 

     

    Hope that helps cut the new folks some slack. 

    Charlton away

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    23 minutes ago, ThaiLatic said:

     

    I could be there in three: I'm 45 minutes from the airport, the flight is 1 hour and 25 minutes and then 30 minutes on the speedboat. B):Thailand:

    I found that Chonburi (sp?) shirt you gave me 8 (!!!) years ago the other day, when home for Christmas and sorting out a pile of stuff at my folks' place... had a nice little moment of reflection!

    OWTB - What's it worth?

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    5 hours ago, Andy Perimeter West said:

    Obviously not in with the brown nose gang or due to it costing to start a new thread which is crazy

    And yet, true.  We mentioned it above, the bills are still coming in and the money really isn't.  So, we can let people troll (really meek trolling, at that) and expedite the demise.  Or you can act civilised towards people trying to do a nice thing.

     

    Fundamentally only Steve is an active poster on OWTB these days; Ric and Matt've pretty much gone. Myself and Zorrro are fleeting members at best, so it's not us who'll miss out.

    Sarfend & Gills

    in OASIS Messageboard

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    3 hours ago, 24hoursfromtulsehill said:

     

    They don't. I do. This language will be used at the Hamlet, around the house, in taxis and on buses, walking the streets. Barely a sentence will go by when I don't call leeslover a cunt.

    In your defense, he is a cunt. 

    The all in one, All players chit chat thread

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    5 minutes ago, singe said:

    I still can't get my head round opening another thread increases costs and bandwidth! Not denying it, just thinking how mad it is!

    Basically every time you open a page (same thread, new thread, other...) you take a little bit of data from the server which holds OWTB and move it to your pc/phone/device.  This in isolation is fine, but we have a very active and quite large user base which we're really proud of building up (for the fan base/club size).  So if there's one thread on a topic you pull that data back to you once. If you have to go to three threads for the data you're pulling it back three times, and thus tripling the cost. Again, in isolation that's a tiny amount, probably (not really measurable in this way) 0.001p or something tiny.  But when that's a lot of people it all adds up.

     

    This is a pretty simplified example, but hopefully it helps. 

     

    6 minutes ago, singe said:

    On that note, and in the spirit of helping reduce costs, does it help to close old topics? Looking at the Classifies, that hasn't worked, could it be merged into a Miscellaneous ?
    Add in Old programme Layouts, Legend of the week, Face in the Crowd and Old Matchday threads?

    Appreciate the ideas, but unfortunately they don't offer much in the way of savings because, as above, it's more about the active threads and traffic than the things sitting on the site in the background.  We have talked about reducing the open forums and may yet do that anyway, but it is unlikely to offer a significant saving. 

     

    2 minutes ago, robboman said:

    Can we open a new thread to discuss running costs 

    Haha! I probably should move all this to the main begging thread. I will try and get time later.

     

    The all in one, All players chit chat thread

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, robboman said:

    Because then no one will open a thread

    What a wonderful world that would be!

     

    46 minutes ago, Lags said:

    Seeing the thread below about Ossy being closed due to lack of funds, why not have a one thread fits all players ( would this make it cheaper Mods? I've no idea)

    What helps is people just following on from the conversations. There was plenty in the post-Bury chat about it already. Once people go to two places for one thing they double their bandwith consumption and that has a cost.  

     

    We've thick skin and a bit of ribbing about closing a thread is well and good; but we're once again looking at a pot with about 2 months of funds in it... so if there's continued good form we'll be fine.  If we tank again, then we're fucked - because nothing causes a usage spike more than a bad run of form.

     

    Here's hoping it all works out for the best.  If not, we'll set up a reddit thread and call it a day!

    PLAYERS STAFF STEWARDS NOT PAID - CRISIS

    in The opinions4u Terraces - Latics Forum

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    9 minutes ago, GlossopLatic said:

     

    Which will be the way it has always gone.

     

    People keep preaching that the death of football is around the corner and it keeps defying the odds most football clubs lose money they were 100 years ago they are today ( with the exception of the premier league) I imagine the same will be the case in 100 years from now.

    Do you have any citation for clubs 100 years ago losing money?

     

    I find that hard to believe, given the comparative outlays (wages were comparatively small) versus incomes (attendance was comparatively large (albeit at a lower pp rate)), but would be very interested to be proved wrong.

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