not reading allat ;-;

as of late, i have been spending a great deal of time working on an msmg website, structured to be basically an entire clone of imgflip itself, although obviously without meme generation tools and no user made streams

it has come to my attention when looking at hosting options, that even if i were to go with a ~$300/year plan for hardware services, it would still not be nearly enough disk space and RAM to store user images and posts and process requests. also, this $300/year does not cover SSL certificate costs or domain name subscriptions, so it would be more than that

therefore, the only remotely feasible way to actually run this site would be for me to actually purchase and maintain my own server hardware, and almost definitely i would need to upgrade my internet plan, which i would have to work with my parents to do. before anyone asks, no, i cannot do co-location as that is too expensive

as someone currently saving to attend early college next year after i graduate, i am a little short on money, and this is looking to have a starting cost of $700+ minimum, so here is why i am making this post: i do plan to have ads on this website. nowhere near as many as imgflip, but definitely some in order to offset my costs by maybe a few dollars a year

however, the amount of money i make from that is based on user count. i also plan on adding a donation option, which would go 100% towards maintaining and paying off hardware, although i dont expect many if any people to actually do that

basically, i need to make sure there will be an active userbase to not only make it not financially impossible, but also not a huge waste of time, so if anyone here plans on using the site frequently and/or on donating i would like to get a rough estimate of how many people that would be, so please inform me if you expect to.

:)

glad to know you support the idea lol

I'm still not exactly sure how the website works like what's in it but I think I wanna replace Imgflip with it

currently it includes main, gaming, music, art, and global streams (global shows all posts)

streams, user profiles, settings, the main page, and most other things will look fairly similar to imgflip, although the main page has a variety of user leaderboards on it

currently there is no images in comments, or memechat, but there is a global chatroom that im going to have to modify to use websockets for processing reasons

moderators are all sitewide and there are different mod levels in order to help prevent mod abuse

its basically mini imgflip

Ooo Will you add a meme generator like Imgflip has to it?

maybe eventually although itd be much later and it wouldnt have saved templates

if it doesnt cost anything and its safe, im willing to be a user

So what do we do on the msmg website? The entire point of imgflip is to make and share memes but that has no meme generation tools

basically its a social site, like how there are people who just hang out and talk to others on msmg

Then why don't use discord

i dont like it and barely use it

I meant for everyone else

they seemed interested which is why i started working on it in the first place, i dont know all their reasoning

I mean mini imgflip should we way less laggy and then discord.

and since when was domain costs 300$ a month 💀

i dont know anything about the site but you'll probably be able to use imgflip or something else then download the meme and post it on the site

it has the option to create a post where you input an imgflip post id and it uses that as the image automatically

Well then why don't you just use normal imgflip

Ok

I read all of this, and I understand, and I hope that you are able to get more money

First AI, now a website
Bros the Mr. Stark of MSMG

im on board

I can help with marketing

i certainly would

and I guess we could try providing incentives to people that use that site regularly

i absolutely would use the site a lot

perfect. lot of people

I'll probably use it frequently
im already addicted to imgflip itself

the idea of some kind of hangout and talk site sounds pretty fun. it makes it easier to express your thoughts through something else than memes. tell me when it comes out,i will surely use it