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how should we advertise (read the advertisement section first please)

  • We don't continue our effort & No advertisement

    Votes: 35 14.5%
  • We advertise to survive

    Votes: 102 42.1%
  • We advertise & donate to the developers

    Votes: 105 43.4%

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Drakia

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Thats even worse, That means pretty much at all times the servers strength is lowered somewhat, May not be noticeable but not all lag is noticeable.
Fetching file stats from github isn't going to cause the site to lag, at all, it's a simple quick request. They also most likely won't hit the api request limit even if they do all the apps at the same time every 30 minutes.

@Tjessx I'd recommend moving off Amazon to DigitalOcean. It's a set cost per month, and you're unlikely to hit the 1TB of bandwidth or 20GB of space usage on their lowest plan. I've used them for years on sites getting 50+k hits per month while hosting downloads without performance issues.
I'd also recommend generating and caching the qr codes yourselves, instead of depending on a 3rd party service.
 
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Seems like the poll is a bit sqewed.

Skew - make biased or distorted in a way that is regarded as inaccurate, unfair, or misleading.

Especially considering the alternatives given by reputable members here, but hey money makes the world go round...
 

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Fetching file stats from github isn't going to cause the site to lag, at all, it's a simple quick request. They also most likely won't hit the api request limit even if they do all the apps at the same time every 30 minutes.

@Tjessx I'd recommend moving off Amazon to DigitalOcean. It's a set cost per month, and you're unlikely to hit the 1TB of bandwidth or 20GB of space usage on their lowest plan. I've used them for years on sites getting 50+k hits per month while hosting downloads without performance issues.
I'd also recommend generating and caching the qr codes yourselves, instead of depending on a 3rd party service.
I've got 2 digital ocean servers currently, and they charge me more and more each month.
I still got a few months free left on Amazon (until 14 september)

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Seems like the poll is a bit sqewed.

Skew - make biased or distorted in a way that is regarded as inaccurate, unfair, or misleading.

Especially considering the alternatives given by reputable members here, but hey money makes the world go round...
What do you mean? (thanks for the meaning of skew)
 

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'We don't continue our effort and no advertisement', as an only alternative option.

Bit harsh, but hey love the place and what do i know....
 

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I've got 2 digital ocean servers currently, and they charge me more and more each month.
I still got a few months free left on Amazon (until 14 september)
Digital ocean hasn't raised their prices since they launched. Though keep in mind the price is in USD, which you'll experience with most hosts, so if your local currency is doing bad relatively, the cost will go up a bit.

If you stick with Amazon once your free year is done though, its probably going to end up costing a lot more per month than DOs cheapest package.
 

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'We don't continue our effort and no advertisement', as an only alternative option.

Bit harsh, but hey love the place and what do i know....
We've discussed for hours before we came to a stand on this point.
And our reasoning is something like this:
- We make this for the homebrew community, if it doesn't want it, then it is fine for us.
- We invest our time in it, but we don't want to monthly pay to keep this online.
- We Want to ensure it's quality
With these points in mind we had only one choice, make enough money to keep the servers online.
We didn't want to accept donations, Because:
We have done nothing, All that we do, is link people to Hard working developers.
These developers are hardworking, time investing, and they deserve.

so the only option is advertisement.
We planned on advertising until we have enough for that month. Because, you know, why would you advertise more? (we're not doing this for money).
But we came on this idea to share the profit under the developers, and thought this was a good idea as well.

Edit: i like that you like it :D

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Why isn't my app being shown in 3DSX section? Theres a .zip file called "3DSX.zip" it contains the .smdh and .3dsx
We do not support zip's/rar's yet, we hope we can support it later today/tomorrow.
I'm not sure if there is an application that downloads 3DSX files, so it doesn't really matter anyways :P (or are there?)

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Digital ocean hasn't raised their prices since they launched. Though keep in mind the price is in USD, which you'll experience with most hosts, so if your local currency is doing bad relatively, the cost will go up a bit.

If you stick with Amazon once your free year is done though, its probably going to end up costing a lot more per month than DOs cheapest package.
We're gonna change to another provider, it might be digital ocean, but not until september.
I don't know why they overcharge me
 

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We've discussed for hours before we came to a stand on this point.
We do not support zip's/rar's yet, we hope we can support it later today/tomorrow.
I'm not sure if there is an application that downloads 3DSX files, so it doesn't really matter anyways :P (or are there?)
No I dont think there is, There's not really any point of downloading it since it doesnt have a .smdh with it

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We've discussed for hours before we came to a stand on this point.
We're gonna change to another provider, it might be digital ocean, but not until september.
I don't know why they overcharge me

If your gonna change I would recommend Namecheap, $38.88/year for a decent plan and if you buy a domain first then it gives you the option to buy 1 month of it for 9.88 or something like that. So basically $15 ish for a decent domain + 1 month of hosting, then after that month ends pay $38 ish a year. Not fucking bad, I currently use it for: https://gameshare.io & https://proxyfuel.xyz
 

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No I dont think there is, There's not really any point of downloading it since it doesnt have a .smdh with it
Soon ;)

If your gonna change I would recommend Namecheap, $38.88/year for a decent plan and if you buy a domain first then it gives you the option to buy 1 month of it for 9.88 or something like that. So basically $15 ish for a decent domain + 1 month of hosting, then after that month ends pay $38 ish a year. Not fucking bad, I currently use it for: https://gameshare.io & https://proxyfuel.xyz

I'm not sure if this is everywhere, but the name cheap website itself is so so slow here, that i can't mentally work with it. it drives me crazy :P
 

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Soon ;)



I'm not sure if this is everywhere, but the name cheap website itself is so so slow here, that i can't mentally work with it. it drives me crazy :P
Its more then likely your own internet as its one of the only good modern websites. Also if you dont end up getting Namecheap or Digital Ocean and you end up with 1and1.com's hosting I will literally DDoS you (Joke) as there hosting Terms is fucking retarded, You have to sign shit and stuff like that to be able to delete default folders and such. DO NOT GET THEM.
 
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For option 3 (advertise and donate to developers), are you going to monitor the apps on your database? I notice there's an app that just blatantly copied from other people work.
 
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Perhaps you guys should look at some other creative solutions to the hosting problem. Ads won't really solve it, people are looking for something similar to an app store ( I hope you guys are looking into something like this ), and when/if something like it comes along the website won't get much traffic to sustain itself.
 

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For option 3 (advertise and donate to developers), are you going to monitor the apps on your database? I notice there's an app that just blatantly copied from other people work.
We're not 100% sure about how we would divide the profit, however, we won't just look at the download count, some work is more important then others, we really want to take as much in consideration as possible.

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Perhaps you guys should look at some other creative solutions to the hosting problem. Ads won't really solve it, people are looking for something similar to an app store ( I hope you guys are looking into something like this ), and when/if something like it comes along the website won't get much traffic to sustain itself.
We are ;)

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@MasterFeizz Added DeSmuME, EDuke3D and ctrQuake to our database
 
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We're not 100% sure about how we would divide the profit, however, we won't just look at the download count, some work is more important then others, we really want to take as much in consideration as possible.

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We are ;)

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@MasterFeizz Added DeSmuME, EDuke3D and ctrQuake to our database

ctrQuake and EDuke3D need the data files, but I'm already working on updates that puts the base files in the romfs
 

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ctrQuake and EDuke3D need the data files, but I'm already working on updates that puts the base files in the romfs
I'll temporarily disable them

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EDIT: wrong quote

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suggestion for adding a filter or something that separates games from applications
We're looking into it
 
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I've got the same problems with those QR codes, (iPhone 5S), however, you're the first one who verifies my problem, someone else with the same phone doesn't have this problem
In my IPhone 5 it looks perfectly!
 

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