Jstpst Is Not Shutting Down

Submitted by twovests in meta (edited )

Cohost, the second greatest place to post, is shutting down due to financial difficulties. I'd link to the post, but Cohost is struggling and I can't get to it. Cohost was a very good place to post that cropped up out of the whole Twitterdeath thing.

I'm being silly, but I'll very much miss Cohost :(

We never had financial updates because the operating expenses are pretty lax:

Thing Costs
VPS $14 / month
VPS backups $3 / month
Domain Not sure, but the total must be less than...
Total ... Like $20/month

The only concern is images. Until 2024, Jstpst only took ~4MB of space across allll the posts. (Text is small!) Right now, everything included, the VPS is using 15GB of its 50GB limit. If images ever become a problem, we can just turn off uploads.

TLDR: Get ready for 5 more years of posting.

(edit) Real TLDR: Jstpst is not even close to having financial problems. :)

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emma wrote

If images ever become a problem, we can just turn off uploads.

we could also ban touhou

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missingno wrote

if you ban touhou, only outlaws will have touhous

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devtesla wrote

Yeah jstpst isn't even close to shutting down, I feel I should mention that Lol.

Sad about cohost! There was a moment where I thought about posting there more, but a part of my reasoning to avoid it was just that there was no way it was going to last, I didn't really trust the management.

But yes! Thank you everyone for posting!

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flabberghaster wrote

Imm gonna get us sued

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twovests OP wrote

we dont even have a privacy policy

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cute_spider wrote

you should at least keep a personal privacy policy just for yourself

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twovests OP wrote

i do not post ALL of my ssn...

... but here is a little sneak peak...

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cute_spider wrote

okay thank you that should be all I need!

if citibank calls you please just tell them that you are me.

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twovests OP wrote

called them today and told them i am a cute spider. they said "What is the nature of your problem?" and i repeated it. They hung up when I told them I don't have an account

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nitori wrote

Right now, everything included, the VPS is using 15GB of its 50GB limit.

I bet most of that is because of f/2hu

Takane LOL

If images ever become a problem, we can just turn off uploads.

Maybe we could also just limit the file size to like 200 KiB? I could just recompress my uploads to JPEG quality 30 (and also reduce the resolution if need be) in that case lol

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devtesla wrote

that could be aesthetic

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nitori wrote

q30 is not that bad, it's the lower end of what's recommend for "web quality" lol

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cowloom wrote

Very late to this post, but another possible solution could be to cull the oldest uploaded images when we get close to storage capacity

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twovests OP wrote

the community is getting use from images! no need to turn them off yet

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toasthaste wrote

I wished good things for cohost, it was doing a lot of neat stuff. I made an account and poked around but I've been down this road before so I was waiting to see if it stood the test of time (and also I'm still on tumblr lol). I always want these kinds of projects to succeed even when they're not quite for me, more places for people to choose between is better than fewer. It's sad. I really hope someone figures out how to sustain a non-tiny modern social media site that isn't owned by a huge megacorp someday. Or that the culture shifts enough that "pay $/month to be allowed to upload images" becomes a normal thing people don't balk at (can't imagine this happening but who knows)

When tumblr finally dies someday I'll be so fucking sad. In that event I really want there to be somewhere to go to that isn't another twitter clone. F

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cute_spider wrote

You know what's missing from these figures?

A MARKETING BUDGET!!

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