is it just me or gbatemp logo on top of the page has changed?

Noctosphere · Dec 13, 2017

Seriously, when i refresh or change of page, it becomes very blurry and then gradually become clear
is it a features from the new gbagtemp style?
because i had it for few days now and never noticed it before

ThoD · Dec 13, 2017

x65943 said:
This statement is quite ironic. Net neutrality repeal will do anything BUT allow you to browse the internet in peace. Americans make up a lot of web traffic and these decisions will impact the freedom of the internet worldwide.

This just shows how stupid american ego is, you people don't matter as much as you think you do. Also, since most of my interactions are with Japanese, European and Australian people, I couldn't care any less about americans

And YES, it will allow me to browse in peace, as I won't be seeing the same drivel left and right or the annoying pop-ups (btw, the "send a message to congress" pop-up popped up 4 times for me before it stopped).

Chary · Dec 13, 2017

ThoD said:
This just shows how stupid american ego is, you people don't matter as much as you think you do. Also, since most of my interactions are with Japanese, European and Australian people, I couldn't care any less about americans And YES, it will allow me to browse in peace, as I won't be seeing the same drivel left and right or the annoying pop-ups (btw, the "send a message to congress" pop-up popped up 4 times for me before it stopped).

>ego
Sorry, I wasn't aware that factual truths are ego now.

And what does your interpersonal interactions mean regardless to this? Nothing? Just because you don't interact with Americans does not mean a majority of them are ON the internet. You cannot deny the population of the USA, and that a good chunk of them use the internet lol.

Seriel · Dec 13, 2017

It seems the problems I had with the header on the site and the popups have since been changed, so I will hush for now. Them harassing me at every oppurtunity was my main concern, one message isn't as bad.
I would argue about this but I really don't have the time or effort ~~I'll just leave ThoD to argue it for me~~ so honestly just have fun and good luck with all the stuff, I hope you get the outcome you wanted, then we can all go back to being the community we've always loved.

Kioku · Dec 13, 2017

ThoD said:
This just shows how stupid american ego is, you people don't matter as much as you think you do. Also, since most of my interactions are with Japanese, European and Australian people, I couldn't care any less about americans And YES, it will allow me to browse in peace, as I won't be seeing the same drivel left and right or the annoying pop-ups (btw, the "send a message to congress" pop-up popped up 4 times for me before it stopped).

That whole post was an ego trip. Ffs

Also, you want to piss off thousands (if not millions) of people? Stick an annoying pop-up in their face.

x65943 · Dec 13, 2017

ThoD said:
This just shows how stupid american ego is, you people don't matter as much as you think you do. Also, since most of my interactions are with Japanese, European and Australian people, I couldn't care any less about americans And YES, it will allow me to browse in peace, as I won't be seeing the same drivel left and right or the annoying pop-ups (btw, the "send a message to congress" pop-up popped up 4 times for me before it stopped).

This is GBAtemp's traffic from alexa

according to this 39% of traffic here is from the US. This is hardly a gbatemp phenomenon alone. Many websites would be affected by US policy.

shaunj66 · Dec 13, 2017

The popup was a mistake caused by a script I used, it wasn't intended and shouldn't happen again.

The logo text no longer links to the #netneutrality topic. Thanks for the feedback (though don't forget you can also click Tempy to go home).

And if a logo change gets people this heated then imagine what a repeal of net neutrality would do. Just because you don't live in America don't think this won't effect you, that's just ignorance. You don't think other countries won't follow suit? Besides, 1/3 of our traffic comes from the USA. A change from a free internet would directly effect GBAtemp and our ability to stay afloat.

ThoD · Dec 13, 2017

Seriel said:
It seems the problems I had with the header on the site and the popups have since been changed, so I will hush for now. Them harassing me at every oppurtunity was my main concern, one message isn't as bad.
I would argue about this but I really don't have the time or effort ~~I'll just leave ThoD to argue it for me~~ so honestly just have fun and good luck with all the stuff, I hope you get the outcome you wanted, then we can all go back to being the community we've always loved.

Same, now that it's all resolved I don't care enough about this, so I'll leave this thread to fall into the abyss of stupidity and overreaction like the other one did

MassExplosion213 · Dec 13, 2017

Also, since traffic on _most_ sites comes from the US, it would drive out a lot of smaller businesses and startups. This is essentially "I promise I won't murder people, but I want it to be legal to".

Issac · Dec 13, 2017

I always click Tempy to go home :3

And what many people seem to forget: "This only affect 'Muricans so I don't give a flark!".... well, no. It would affect companies, services and servers hosted in the US too. Things that YOU probably use. It would affect traffic to non-US sites / services / servers as well, ad revenues, maybe forcing some sites to shut down (not too likely though)... this will affect everyone in the long run, but strike the most notably on the people of the US.

One pop-up about it, and the Tempy gif... who cares? That's not intrusive.

TotalInsanity4 · Dec 13, 2017

On top of what's already said, you can bet your ass that we'd be making this much of a fuss if, say, the EU tried to repeal their version of net neutrality. That would have a similar impact to the internet as a whole. I really hate this assumption of "people only care about this because it's America and America isn't the whole world you self-centered prick blah blah blah"

Sicklyboy · Dec 14, 2017

I don't think a lot of people realize that it's not just American end users who have the potential to be throttled. Wherever your favorite website is that doesn't have the capital of Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Google, etc to pay for these potential "internet fast lanes" on their outbound connections, they too will be slowed to ALL internet traffic. Get a VPN to go around it? Better hope that your VPN headend can afford to pay for these "internet fast lanes" too or else you're going to be right back at square one.

ThoD · Dec 14, 2017

Sicklyboy said:
I don't think a lot of people realize that it's not just American end users who have the potential to be throttled. Wherever your favorite website is that doesn't have the capital of Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Google, etc to pay for these potential "internet fast lanes" on their outbound connections, they too will be slowed to ALL internet traffic. Get a VPN to go around it? Better hope that your VPN headend can afford to pay for these "internet fast lanes" too or else you're going to be right back at square one.

There are a LOT of websites that aren't hosted on US servers, actually the majority of all websites, so it won't be that bad. Also, no matter what VPN you use, it won't affect your speed whatsoever. Finally, just THINK before panicking! For every site they block or slow down significantly, they lose that platform as they can't advertise on it. Say they slow down google, google won't allow that company's ads and will instead put up another one's. Even if the worst case scenario happens, this whole thing won't last more than a year.

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