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Dignan... Jesus Christ... I'm going to try telling you this since your father failed as a man. Pull your fucking head out of your ass. Quit whining. Quit begging. Quit blaming everything on "raising your daughter alone". That's too much pressure for a child who is already in a world of shit she's too young to process. There are people in this country who can't speak fucking English and can make money with honest work. There are a million single parents out there that don't live like goddamned transients. Everything is your fault, even the shit that isn't. Go hang out in front of Home Depot while the kid is at school. Get money. Don't buy stupid shit. That kid needs a home and stable life more than a fucking Wii U. You were born a straight white male in America and you are still fucking it up.

Get the shady shit out of your amazon wish list, your life, and more importantly the kids life. Everyone has fucked up shit happen to them, you just wallow in it and refuse to learn anything. Christ almighty how do you not know these things? I'm sure you'll just reply to this with a sob story about how nothing is your fault, or an SM begging me to nuke this and take nothing from it, because you haven't learned a thing in all these years of coming here.

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Update your script:
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Let's see how this goes.

If you're getting errors when you [lol] something, it's because you're not running this script.

It has been 3 years since I became CEO of Shacknews, and I wanted to provide our most loyal users an update on how the site is doing. Shacknews has grown our monthly unique visitors by 152% in that time. We continue to refine our process and have consistently put out quality content.

The team was planning a cosmetic design update to the site that would have gone live this month, but I scrapped that idea. Instead, we are focusing our efforts on a major redesign of the site that includes the Chatty, Mercury subscribers, and new ways for users to express their opinions.

If there is one thing I have learned in my time here, it is that Shackers love to share their opinions. This site needs user reviews and a more modern way for users to share content. Shackers deserve profile pages with game libraries as well as integration of tagging.

We face several problems as a company going forward. On the monetization front, it is becoming more apparent everyday that display advertising is not the way forward. We will be shifting our focus towards sponsored content, like the Show Important live streams you may have seen on our Twitch channel, as well as incentives to subscribe to Mercury. Another issue we face is user retention. Over 90% of our visitors last month were new to Shacknews, but not many of them stick around. These are issues that are not unique to Shacknews, but I believe we have a plan in place that will address both of these very important problems.

Shacknews is bigger than most folks on here think. We are held in high regard by many developers and our competitors in the games media are even taking notice. Features like or Doom Select highlight how we are approaching the changing landscape of games media by creating what we believe is needed. We are currently working on a massive Quake feature and its release will be a moment that Shacknews reclaims its identity. So many sites are struggling to find their voice in 2017, and I hope our mission is becoming more clear to you.

Shacknews will provide gaming news from the cutting edge of technology, but that requires a site that functions better than it currently does. Yes, functional search is a priority in the current redesign as is better mod tools that allow users to help flag threads for moderation. Beyond this, our Shacknews community has to become more welcoming to the new generation of gamers while staying true to our roots. This has proven to be one of the most difficult parts of my job.

About a month ago, eonix asked me what keeps me motivated? I didn't answer at the time, because that question deserved a proper amount of thought.

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I love video games. I have ever since I picked up a controller back in the 1980s. I think games provide an escape from things going on in a person's personal life and in the real world. Shacknews has given me the opportunity to share my opinions with millions of people, and meet some of my heroes along the way. Shacknews also provides a sanctuary for many of our users. The Chatty is the best online community I have ever been a part of, which is why so many people come here before they go anywhere else. We celebrate here, we grieve here, and we post dank memes here. This community holds a very special place in my heart.

Running this site is taking up the majority of my time these days, and it doesn't actually make me any money. I continue to do this because I love to do it. Most days don't even feel like work. It is that love I feel for video games and this community that keeps me going.

There will be a day when I am no longer needed here, and I will go the way of Steve and Maarten. This job requires 100% of your heart, and it can be draining, but what I have realized is that the joy is in the journey. I promise to continue to give my all to this site and this community as long as I am needed.

I will be providing more updates about our 2018 plans and reaching out to the community for feedback as we approach the biggest relaunch in the history of Shacknews.

Thank you,

Asif

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I think the thing that bugs me the most about this is mods thinking they should be in charge of what's discussed here and can force / steer conversation.

All I've ever wanted shack mods to do is nuke / ban anyone saying mean shit in a post. That's really it. That's all I need the mods to do.

If people wanna post about what they scored in wordle - cool. If they wanna post about their kid having mental health issues - cool. If they wanna vent that Trump or Trudeau sucks - cool. If they wanna post porn Links - cool. Post whatever the fuck - it's shacknews. I don't want 5-6 dudes with special powers thinking they have to clean up the place or bring it to some imaginary bullshit clean zone

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Asif Khan posted a new article, <a target="_blank" href="/article/101298/pewdiepie-stop">PewDiePie, Stop</a>

Update on the State of Shacknews Chatty

I have seen a few threads over the past week asking if this place is dying from lack of users and posts.

I have compiled some figures on Chatty usage for you folks to consider.

According to our analytics, for the period of Jan 1-April 30, 2024 Chatty pageviews have declined by 13.45% from Jan 1-April 30, 2023.

In that same time period, the number of active users (defined as people who view the Chatty) has increased by 31% from 2023.

We do not keep track of the number of active posters, but if anyone wants to check the "health" of this place, we do publicly disclose how many active threads and comments there are at the top of the website for Chatty. It also shows up where the Chatty button (which says Forum) is located for people who are not logged into the site.

From my perspective, it is true that there are less threads now than there were a year or two ago. Most days we don't even get to a third Chatty page anymore. Weekends are usually just contained to one page.

Shacknews Chatty's traffic peaked in the mid-2000s (around 2006) and has largely been on a downtrend ever since. We have seen some signs of bottoming over the past three years, but no sustainable growth has ever materialized.

I don't have any comments or suggestions on how to reverse this, but I wanted to provide some data.

As for what this means for the future of this place? Nothing. Like the rest of the Shacknews company, it will keep going as long as I keep going.

It's nuts to me that people still don't realize how much fucking harder it is to play a game in a studio setting, while you're focused on trying to keep an intelligent conversation going, on a TV that may be too far away or is sitting at a weird angle or being blown out by studio lights. Throw in your everyday garden-variety performance anxiety and it's a recipe for fumbling around and playing worse than you do on your own time. Making the type of videos we make is so far removed from you sitting in the dark at your PC with the headphones on that they aren't even worth comparing but you're doing it anyway.

Nevermind that you, the passive viewer, are able to notice all kinds of shit onscreen that the person whose head is full of "what features should I show off next/is that a funny quip oh well I'm gonna throw it out there anyway/how do I just keep my mouth running so there's no dead air" lacks the spare mental capacity to keep up with. Some people are better at multitasking than others but nobody is playing at their best when they're playing for an audience.

Jeff mentioned something on I think UPF last week about how he basically fails to read any text on the screen when he's in the driver's seat and that baffled him. It's a basic cognitive thing. You just can't split your attention that many ways at once. Devs who come in are constantly saying the same thing -- look at the XCOM 2 dev QL we did a few weeks ago where Mark kept asking Garth to do the talking because he was getting worked by the game every time he stopped to explain something. Apparently this is not intuitive wisdom though and a lot of people will never understand it until they try to do it themselves.

I realize this post is overly defensive and explanatory but that's what you get when I run across this at 6:30 in the morning. Where's my coffee.

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