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intel-bank said:
As far as I could be clued in it’s traffic.

I don’t mean to point out the elephant in the room director and whatnot, but we’ve gone down a couple times recently during higher traffic times and I think it’s unlikely we can stay up in a defcon 2 or 1 situation as it currently stands
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This was the longest out of my two decades on these forums has it been down without a formal notice for maintenance. 4 hours... and with everything going on that was rather not cool.
 
intel-bank said:
I don’t mean to point out the elephant in the room director and whatnot, but we’ve gone down a couple times recently during higher traffic times and I think it’s unlikely we can stay up in a defcon 2 or 1 situation as it currently stands
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You're right. But we don't have the funds for the necessary infrastructure for the kind of traffic we might get.
 
DEFCON Warning System said:
You're right. But we don't have the funds for the necessary infrastructure for the kind of traffic we might get.
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That’s gotta change. Let’s all begin putting our heads together to figure out fundraising. I know we all prefer remaining in the shadows, but we may have to become less subtle. Like, going through neighborhoods and putting a DEFCON warning system card in everyone’s mailbox (1,000 homes or more) would create potentially national buzz. Just silly stuff like that.

One Issue is awareness. 99% of the general public doesn’t know what a DEFCON level is, let alone seek out a forum for it. The community here represents 0.0000001% of the human population.
 
Spyglass said:
That’s gotta change. Let’s all begin putting our heads together to figure out fundraising.
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A lot of it is visibility. YouTube doesn't share our videos. Our articles go unread. If we had more people coming to our site, visiting our forums, and watching our YouTube videos, the money would come in.

Sadly, self-promotion is not my forte.
 
intel-bank said:
As far as I could be clued in it’s traffic.

I don’t mean to point out the elephant in the room director and whatnot, but we’ve gone down a couple times recently during higher traffic times and I think it’s unlikely we can stay up in a defcon 2 or 1 situation as it currently stands
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This is a very good point, and it immediately occurred to me too when I saw the forums go down yesterday.
 
Only thing this site has going for it is its venerable age. In terms of content - it doesn't really have an edge over what can easily be found via some intelligent googling (although I will add that the recent analyses posted by the staff are of surprisingly high quality), and the forums are your usual mix of real news, fake news, smart opinions and dumb opinions. There are professional OSINT sites out there that are light years ahead of DWS (*cough* Rochan *cough*) - but they charge for their services.

If you ever end up advertising, my suggestion would be to add a "founded in" banner to your logo. :P
 
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