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If you ask investors, Reddit is doing great. Its current market cap sits at nearly $22 billion, three times what it debuted at during its March 2024 IPO. Once a little-known successor to Fark and Digg, and a great place to engage in down-to-earth communication and meet interesting people, it's now one of the most well-known social (or anti-social) media platforms in the world. From a user perspective, though, the site is less friendly than ever. The latest change — made with zero fanfare, as usual — now allows complete strangers to reduce your account's functionality for any reason they see fit. Now, if someone blocks you, you're no longer able to edit, delete, or even view your own comments,with exactly zero recourse for you, the person who originally posted them. [/url] [HEADING=3][/HEADING] [HEADING=1]User-made content, corporate-friendly rules[/HEADING] [HEADING=2]And a general lack of transparency[/HEADING] The mid-2023 API restrictions caused a sharp decline in variety and amount of unique, interesting content. In charging potentially prohibitive fees for third-party apps to access its data, and entering a contract with Google for exclusive web search crawling, users of the formerly grassroots, text-based website felt betrayed, to say the least. You'll periodically run across claims like, "Nobody really left Reddit. After all, I'm still here," but the obvious selection bias rests on the fact that those who left the site are not, logically, around to chime in on the topic. Reddit's block function has prevented users from further participating in comment chains for quite some time, which already opened up the potential for abusing control over certain discussions. The latest update to blocking not only stops a user's ability to comment further, it makes it look like they never commented at all — but only to the blocked user. Others can still see and reply to the original comment, despite its invisibility to the apparent owner. While Reddit never announced the change, it's seemingly been in place for some users — but not all — for varying lengths of time. Mentions of the change can be found as far back as June 2024, but got little widespread attention. Now, according to Android Police's and others' experience, the update appears to be rolling out even more widely. [HEADING=3][/HEADING] [HEADING=2]Only the most recent anti-user policy change[/HEADING] If the altered functionality weren't bad enough, the change has gone mostly unnoticed. It follows closely on the heels of Reddit temporarily banning the r/whitepeopletwitter community after it ran afoul of US executive branch special employee Elon Musk and his underlings. More recently, the website issued stern warnings against users upvoting "violent content," but failed to explicitly lay out what is and isn't allowed. The punishment for upvoting certain posts seems to address the rise of vaguely violence-approving comments following the December shooting of the United HealthCare CEO and vast references to certain green-wearing video game characters, but the site's precise reasoning and specific topics targeted remain less than perfectly clear. Once a decent place to turn for uncensored discussion and sharing of first-hand experiences, it's harder than ever to parse what Reddit posts come from humans in good faith, and what results from LLM prompts, content-farming profiteers, or subversive propaganda campaigns. While the block function's nonsensically Draconian changes might not affect you directly, it's never been a better time to delete your Reddit accountand stop the corporate churn from taking advantage of your clicks. Source: https://www.androidpolice.com/reddit-block-abuse-prevents-access-delete-edit-view-own-comments/

For what? Paying users, accepting payments? I prefer to use paypal and cash app.

I don’t actually see a point in having a word requirement, it’s off-putting and can drive users away. Letting people post freely is the best way to keep them engaged. Once you start setting limits, you’re more likely to lose members. Restrictions like that just aren’t a good idea.

I’ve never heard of either provider. I’d recommend going with a provider that’s more known and has a reputation for being an excellent provider. I’d recommend checking out Ushost247. Their servers are designed for forums and blogs

In terms of marketing, do you find them useful? Have you tried using them to promote any of your sites? Which ones have you used?

No, I don’t create websites nor forums with the intent of selling them. I create websites as they’re a passion of mine and I enjoy running them.

Long bright river was the last show that I watched.

Running a test through Google’s pagespeed tool can help you diagnose some of your site’s accessibility issues. It can also pinpoint the areas that need to be improved. https://pagespeed.web.dev/

welcome to the community!

if the trend doesn’t last long, then you’re stuck with a website that won’t attract any new members. It’s best to stick to things that are relevant and current. This may work for a blog or Youtube channel though as you’re not exactly running an online community about it.

Sometimes you can write posts on forums that are about products and make money through affiliate marketing instead of Adsense. This tactic could be a better way to monetize your forum if your traffic isn’t too high.

The new theme is awesome! Well done😁

Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers. The network-taming company built the tool after noticing that almost one percent of all requests to access web content that it can see now come from AI crawler bots. Those bots are probably scraping data that’s gathered up to train AI models. Web site operators can in theory block AI crawlers using various means such as a robots.txt file or changing web server settings to disallow visits from bots. Some even use CAPTCHAs to test whether visitors to a site are human, or adopt software designed to stymie bots. In reality crawler operators ignore the instructions in robots.txt files, or work around CAPTCHAs and web server settings. The result is a lot of unwanted crawler traffic consuming resources, and info fed into training data without creators’ permission – a contentious practice currently being tested in court amidst allegations of copyright abuse. Cloudflare’s response is to let crawler bots in and use generative AI to create junk content for them to devour in what the company has termed an “AI Labyrinth”. “When we detect unauthorized crawling, rather than blocking the request, we will link to a series of AI-generated pages that are convincing enough to entice a crawler to traverse them,” explained Cloudflare’s Reid Tatoris, Harsh Saxena, and Luis Miglietti. Cloudflare uses its own serverless Workers to create the content. The trio wrote that the content is “real looking” but “not actually the content of the site we are protecting, so the crawler wastes time and resources.” The content is also “real and related to scientific facts” because Cloudflare doesn’t want to inadvertently create misinformation. The AI slop is also designed not to mess with sites’ reputations or search engine optimization efforts. It is, however, designed to act as a deterrent to crawler operators, by keeping their bots busy and thereby increasing the cost of operating content scrapers. “I wanted to do it,” he said. “AI is the reason we're not. I mean, terribly sadly, it's just too much of an X-ray and too easily absorbed.” “Why help the fucking robots any more than you can?” “So, it was an ego thing. It was vanity that makes you want to do it, and the downside is real. So, vanity loses.” Cloudflare thinks this stuff is also a useful tool to detect bot activity. “No real human would go four links deep into a maze of AI-generated nonsense,” Cloudflare’s trio wrote. “Any visitor that does is very likely to be a bot, so this gives us a brand-new tool to identify and fingerprint bad bots, which we add to our list of known bad actors.” This sort of thing usually creates an arms race and Cloudflare is already thinking about what it will take to stay ahead. “In the future, we’ll continue to work to make these links harder to spot and make them fit seamlessly into the existing structure of the website they’re embedded in,” its authors wrote. Cloudflare customers can enable the AI Labyrinth in their management consoles. Source: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/21/cloudflare_ai_labyrinth/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

It’s possible to deactivate it, but it won’t be for every single search. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/13572151?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid Tips: You'll find the Search Labs icon next to AI Overviews when you’ve opted into the “AI Overviews and more” experiment in Search Labs. If you don't find the Search Labs icon next to AI Overviews you don't have this experiment turned on, you can refer to AI Overviews in Search. You can also install these two browser extensions to remove it. Hide Google AI Overviews: This Chrome extension removes AI-generated summaries from your Google search results. Bye Bye, Google AI: Another Chrome extension designed to block AI overviews.

Video Quests will start rolling out to mobile users in June. Discord is bringing third-party ads to its mobile platform. The gaming-focused voice and chat app announced that a mobile pilot for Video Quests — ads that allow Discord users to earn rewards like avatar decorations and in-game items by watching a video — will launch in June 2025, after rolling out on PC and consoles last year. ”Expanding our advertising platform to mobile is an obvious, natural evolution in our strategy,” said Discord’s product leader, Peter Sellis. “Our mission is to create the most authentic, player-centric advertising platform in the galaxy. This expansion will provide brand partners access to Discord’s highly engaged, cross-platform mobile audience — and create new opportunities for businesses to connect with our community in meaningful, and performant, ways.” The new mobile ads don’t seem particularly intrusive — they will appear as a “Quest bar” at the bottom of the screen, which can be dismissed or tapped on to open the dedicated Quest tab. The full-screen videos will only then play if a user chooses to accept the Quest. Discord already allows users on other platforms to hide in-app promotions for specific Quests, or opt out of personalized promotions. These options will also be available for mobile users. Video Quests are one of two Quest formats that Discord launched last year, the other being Play Quests, which reward players for completing in-game tasks. Discord had gained a reputation for being an ad-free platformprior to introducing Quests, having instead relied on user subscriptions to bring in revenue. Mobile Quest ads were already being tested in a limited beta, but this rollout suggests they will now start appearing more broadly. The announcement of mobile ads comes amid rumors that Discord is preparing to launch an initial public offering. The company was last valued at roughly $15 billion by private investors in 2021, and had reportedly discussed a $10 billion acquisition deal with Microsoft that same year that ultimately didn’t materialize anything. Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/633166/discord-mobile-video-ads-quests-ipo

Nope. I’ve touched a lot of money in my life time and money isn’t something that would force me to sell. I’m not a money hungry person, so I wouldn’t care if someone offered a million or 100k for my forum. They can keep it as nobody can run my forum better than I can. Working in the oil field when I was younger taught me that money isn’t everything and making bank all the time.

This is where Google Search Console becomes crucial. It helps identify low-ranking pages so you can improve content and boost rankings. The ‘Top Performing Pages’ section highlights key pages, and if one is declining, it’s time for optimization. Not all search results contain AI overviews, but if you’re struggling to rank, an active social media campaign and quality backlinks can help. Interlinking related pages also improves site navigation and indexing. The easier your site is to crawl, the better your chances of maintaining strong search visibility becomes.

Google admitted in a video published on its own Search Central YouTube channel that if searchers do not use your page(s) in the search results, those pages may stop showing up in the search results. Martin Splitt said this in a recent YouTube short he posted where he said, "if pages fall off the index again... users don't really use them in search results." In short, if Google ranks a page of yours in the search results and Google finds that searchers are not clicking on it or interacting with it, Google may not show that page in the search results in the future. Here is the where Martin Splitt from Google was talking about why "my pages are indexed but don't show up in the search results?" While he provided a number of reasons we all know, he also said: Yep, Navboost being confirmed again by a Googler but this time not in some off-Google property deep inside a forum but on Google's very own managed YouTube channel. Here is the full video - so you can watch it: Here is the full transcript: Source: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-user-pages-used-deindex-39098.html

You’re welcome! I’ve updated the thread with a few more areas that you can promote on.

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I also started with a free website hosting provider(freewebs) back in 2003-2004 before moving on to self-hosting. Running a forum on a free host can be a great learning experience with helping new admins understand community management before deciding whether to invest in paid hosting. I don’t see anything wrong with using free forum host as they’re still forum owners, still part of the community, and everyone has to start somewhere. No one jumps straight to the top without learning the basics first. I do think more free forum providers should offer tools for owners to download their database and migrate to their own hosting if they choose to. Some, like Jcink, provide this option, but others (like ProBoards) don’t, which feels like unnecessary gatekeeping.

I was born in 89. So I’ma borderline 80’s baby, but a full 90’s baby. I saw the rise of gaming and the internet. I remember when the first gaming systems were released and the slow days of the internet. Gas and food were a lot cheaper back then. I remember going to the store and buying candy for $.50 at some places. Chips were also very cheap back then too, but now they’re like $2-5 for a big size🤦🏿‍♂️They’re mainly full of air, not so much chips.

Yahoo said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm. Why it matters: Yahoo's business centers mostly on aggregation. Journalism isn't its core focus. Zoom in: Regent is trying to pull together a portfolio of tech news sites and is eager to invest in news. Earlier this week, it acquired Foundry, which houses a slew of online tech publications, such as PCWorld, Macworld and TechAdvisor. In a statement, Regent said it is "thrilled to expand its reach as it provides breaking technology news, opinions, and analysis on tech companies worldwide to our audience." Financial deal terms were not disclosed. The deal will not require regulatory review, which is normally needed for deals valued at roughly more than $100 million. Catch up quick: TechCrunch is one of the most influential tech news sites in Silicon Valley. It focuses on breaking news and analysis that matters to tech investors and startup entrepreneurs. It was founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare, partners of Archimedes Ventures, a venture firm focused on B2B product companies. TechCrunch was an early pioneer in providing data as a service to readers and investors. The company created a data site called Crunchbase that housed startup funding information in 2007 and operated it until 2015. Between the lines: TechCrunch has been subject to several ownership changes over the past few years. It was pulled under the Yahoo umbrella after its former parent AOL and Yahoo were acquired by Verizon and subsequently sold to Apollo as one entity in 2021. Last year, TechCrunch laid off a handful of staffers as it shuttered its subscription offering TechCrunch+. Zoom out: Yahoo's business has evolved to focus on its biggest consumer properties, such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo News, as well as advertising technology. While it doesn't focus on journalism at its core, it does work with thousands of media sites to distribute traffic. In a statement, Yahoo said it will continue to collaborate with Regent and TechCrunch, "built upon a long-term partnership focused on expanding audience reach, fostering innovative content development, and creating mutual financial growth." "We believe this next chapter under Regent can help maintain TechCrunch's influence and support its continued growth," Source: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/yahoo-techcrunch-regent

Target Forum/Blog URL https://www.virtualpetlist.com Content Type Forum Combination 20 Threads + 80’Posts: 800 Credits

I agree, an active user base is critical because engagement fuels more engagement. A forum can have millions of posts, but if it's not averaging a decent number of daily logins or active posters, sustaining the community becomes difficult. However, ‘activity’ can mean different things. Some forums thrive with just 5-10 posts per day, while others consider 100-1,000 daily posts as their baseline. Every community has its own foundation and growth pace. Slow progress is still progress, and as long as a forum is seeing daily activity, it’s active in its own way. A truly successful community is one that empowers, guides, and gives members a sense of belonging. Without that, is it really a community?