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| #1 Posted 11 months ago | | Hello everyone. Huge announcement for you today concerning the episodes situation. As you may know for a while now we've been serving episode downloads from our server and flash streaming from Brightcove. Yeah... turns out that wasn't a very effective solution. So we're changing, and we're changing to Revver.
So why is this a good change? Well let me walk you through the things that make Revver so awesome.
1. It's Just Like YouTube
Revver is a whole video sharing website, just like YouTube is. Fortunately for us that means if we get loads of views on our episodes we'll climb up the "Most Watched" list on the site and probably end up on the front page. If one of our episodes gets on the front page of Revver, LOADS of people are going to see it. I'm talking about a gazillion people. And getting the word out of YGOTAS is good, right?
2. Advertising
I know what you're going to say. "Oh dudes, you're selling out." Well, not really. He's why. The ads at the bottom of the site do NOT provide us with enough money. We're nowhere close to breaking even, and running the site is a majorly expensive endeavour. We're losing money keeping the site alive, I don't know the exact number of how much we're losing, but I don't particularly want to know. Fortunately hosting on Revver not only takes the download hits off of our servers, but also allows us to embed REALLY short, unannoying ads. How much do these ads help? Imagine if we took the banner at the bottom of the page and duplicated it 6 times all over the place. That is how much more money we'd be getting. And we need money to keep the servers from dying! So advertising in the episodes is a good thing, because I prefer the servers being alive over dead.
3. MAKE MONEY ON SHARING IT.
If you get a friend into the Abridged Series, you can get a cut from the ad revenue! When you're watching one of our videos on Revver.com and you're signed in, you can spread the link to the video with your special sharer ID attached which means that you get 20% of all ad revenue (we get 40%, Revver gets 40%). So if there's ever been a time to tell friends about TAS, this is the time.
I would really love to hear your guys thoughts on this. This site is FOR the community, and I'm just one man - there's 7,422 others that also use the site and want it there way. So if you have any suggestions, criticisms, ideas, I would be extremely happy to hear them. Thanks, and rock on.
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| #2 Posted 11 months ago | | | Huh. Didn't get the 20% part though, what's up with that? |
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| #3 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #2 by SpiritBoy | | | When you watch an episode at Revver.com there is a "Share This" button that gives you embed links with the "sharer id" attached. |
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| #4 Posted 11 months ago | | | Good idea. You guys are a lot more popular than you guessed, eh? |
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| #5 Posted 11 months ago | | It's without a doubt a good idea, also the part with the sharing ID feature is a extra motivation to spread the word about YGOTAS :)
I -personally- wouldn't want it any other way ;) |
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| #6 Posted 11 months ago | | | if only more people would donate then we wouldn't have this problem |
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| #7 Posted 11 months ago | |        
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···················· Explanatory juiciness can be ····················
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| #8 Posted 11 months ago | | | that sounds like a good idea.....i was wondering....will the torrents to download episodes still be availible from this site? |
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| #9 Posted 11 months ago | | | sorry double post |
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| #10 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #8 by Saa | | | Yeah, you can still torrent us. |
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| #11 Posted 11 months ago | | | I've never liked revver... all the screwattack vids on revver load up reaaaally slowly. Just watched episode 23 though and it loaded really quickly. Will LK still be posting his abridged on dailymotion though? |
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| #12 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #10 by Ben | | | yay |
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| #13 Posted 11 months ago | |
··· Hey, Ben! When you wanna start adding features to the website, ···
· will there be YGOTAS Website v2.0 beta, and if so,will the original-- ·
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······················· Answer me or face my boomwrath! ·······················
How long till my smiley compulsion gets annoying? |
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| #14 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #13 by mentaldan19 | | | There will be some more little upgrades that go up as we go along, but there will also be one huge revision to the site complete with new design and major upgrades sometime later in the year. |
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| #15 Posted 11 months ago | |
····Super Special Awesome!····
Now that you're here, Ben:
> will there be colour in posts?
> are you excited about SAW IV?
> will animated .gifs be available? |
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| #16 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #15 by mentaldan19 | | - Definitely not. That's reserved for mods.
- ABSOLUTELY.
- In avatars? I'm looking into that, but maybe not, since we have to convert to jpg.
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| #17 Posted 11 months ago | | Awww fucking hell...
I wanted to be the one to make this news post!
Damn you Ben you insanely british man! |
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| #18 Posted 11 months ago | | | Willl do Sir Ben. |
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| #19 Posted 11 months ago | | | Also I seen the ads at the bottom and the price is increasing from .79 to 1.10. Is it due to the increasing users here or something else? |
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| #20 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #17 by Kroze | | Okay, now I'm scared.
I thought Ben made the website in its entirety, but there's always been Kroze.
Kroze seems to always hate Ben! Am I missing something? And he hates British people, too! Are you his stepdad? Are you both yearning to kill one another? Could this possibly mean a Jerry Springer Special?
And just for Kroze; BAKURA IS A VERY VERY INACCURATE SATIRIZATION OF BRITISH PEOPLE! WE DON'T JUST SIT AROUND DRINKING TEA AND EATING BISCUITS! ..we drink coffee too! SO HERE'S AN OFFICIAL "YAY" TO BRITISH PEOPLE ... WAIT FOR IT... YAY! |
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| #21 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #20 by mentaldan19 | | So many questions...
So few answers....
For now...
:P
Ben and I worked together on the site.
And if Bakura is a very very inaccurate satirization of British people then so is Ben! |
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| #22 Posted 11 months ago | | Ben and I worked together on the site.
lol |
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| #23 Posted 11 months ago | | One thing I'm confused about is, will watching the episodes here increase the views on rewer? How does that work out? And would one of the new features be showing the time that someone posted rather than how many minutes ago? Because that's been bugging me...
I checked out the episodes and saw that it actually goes back to episode 1( !!!!) but now the abridged movie is missing ( ...). Guess you can't have everything in life, huh?
BTW, couldn't you guys use the store to make more money? |
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| #24 Posted 11 months ago | | yes new ep will be up make more ep littlekuriboh
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| #25 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #23 by moo102 | | | Watching our episodes on the site will still raise the view-count on Revver because we're embedding from their site. |
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| #26 Posted 11 months ago | | BRAIN BLAST!
Show whether a user is online or not (by their name, perhaps)
This is going in the book (The Geat Big British Book of Ideas from Me)! <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley1.png'> |
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| #27 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #26 by mentaldan19 | | The box around your avatar shows if a person is online....
Also, yes we are aware of the new flash player not working in IE or Opera.... working on it. |
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| #28 Posted 11 months ago | | ANOTHER TWO!
One - Un - Eins
When you're editing a post, having the ability to use bold and italics and underline and strikethrough and link and image and quote and spoiler and by the way I've just written out everything you can tell I'm bored like shit.
Two - Dois - Zwei
Showing how many times a post has been edited. Because imagine this scenario:
SomeGuy:
Who wants to see the Simpsons Movie? How big is the IMAX cinema screen?
SomeGal:
Oh, I wanna see it so bad! I've never seen it before, but I bet it's huge!
and then the guy goes and changes his post to:
I'm Horny. Who'd like to see my c*ck?
I rest my case! |
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| #29 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #22 by Ben | | lol to Ben loling.
In the grand schism that is sure to erupt between the nations of the world yada yada yada, whose side should we all take? Ben's... or Kroze's?So many questions...
So few answers....
For now...
:P
Is it time for any more answers? ... |
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| #30 Posted 11 months ago, in reply to post #28 by mentaldan19 | | You can still use that stuff when editing a post... just manually insert the correct tags and it will work just fine.
Have how many times a post was edited? Hmmm... we'll think about it...
And answers? HAW!
Just think of us like Lost: You won't be getting any solid answers till at least season 5! :P |
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