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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1152594)	7/26/2019 10:37:52 PM
From: da_cheif™	6 Recommendations Recommended By locogringo longnshort RetiredNow Taro TideGlider and 1 more member Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

life is like a roll of toilet paper.....the closer to the cardboard u get the faster it goes...:>)

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1152594)	7/26/2019 10:38:31 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

If you are on FB or twitter, you should be able to post what you just told me.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1152594)	7/27/2019 8:02:05 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

Actually I post on other sites. but not on twitter or youtube, and limit myself on facebook.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1152594)	7/27/2019 12:03:57 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575191

I joined July 1998 and back then it was all about our chip-business :)

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1152594)	7/27/2019 12:42:42 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

>> Don't know how they make enough money to stay open. Renting space on a server for asp.net with sql server costs $20/month or a tad more if you have much bandwidth at AWS Lightsail. I can't imagine the bandwidth here is particularly high. I have killed off a couple of sites I ended up wishing I hadn't. They were paying for themselves plus a little, but not worth the hassle of handling support calls, so I killed them. Now, I think the time is right to bring them back in a more modern style but my brand is essentially gone -- other than the domain names. That was a dumb thing to have done in retrospect. I think if I owned SI I would upgrade it to a modern UI and try to turn it into something. Starting a brand is hard to do -- but StackOverflow has taken a single brand and turned it into many. Si could perhaps do the same. But it needs a modern SPA with good mobile support, that sort of stuff. I don't think a rewrite would require a massive investment but the owners may have better paying gigs.