AWS is used by almost every major website in the world - Dev

I use a mix of heroku and AWS - Dev

Uhh I didn't do anything special for the domain, I think standard domain privacy - Dev

it's always been this domain - Dev

and then I stopped working on it for like 3 years until a few weeks ago - Dev

early 2021 - Dev

Ventscape started in 2021 - Dev

They said they started April 12, 2024 - Dev

which is actually not ideal since I think some legit users used VPNs - Dev

short answer: for now I am banning all VPNS lol - Dev

very annoying to deal with but I dealt with it :) - Dev

and she would use a VPN to avoid bans - Dev

Yeah she's probably the worst and most toxic user of this site - Dev

I have put in a lot of effort to perma ban XD, it was quite difficult - Dev

I do give free subscription to mods :) - Dev

yo - Dev

the icon choice is not that great rn XD - Dev

TBH I should change the icon - Dev

3 green bar icon in the top right - Dev

You can switch back to that layout - Dev

yeah that's all good :) - Dev

I will be happy to perma ban them once I'm on - Dev

And yeah please snitch to me via discord if there's ever creeps on - Dev

but if you do behave creepy you will be perma'd - Dev

You would probably already be perma banned if so - Dev

One of the big challenges of this site has been banning creeps, it's actually a lot of work to do that - Dev

at some point there needs to be multiple chat rooms for the site to grow, I think 2-3 is the right number for now - Dev

Check out Rezident - Dev

I would say I want the site to be bigger and better, so I'm doing things that I think people will enjoy. some of those things have made it more like a traditional chat site - Dev

that's a good point - Dev

yeah that might be why, I'm sorry... but it should be good now - Dev

I had to reset the friends list for everyone a few days ago to fix some things - Dev

when did you first add them? - Dev

sweet that's awesome, it was kind of glitched for the first day or so, so glad it's working now XD - Dev

hell yeah, have you guys been using the friends list? - Dev

archivescape is broken for several days now - Dev

it is a void again - Dev

People used archivescape to see when their friends were online -> so I made a friends list - Dev

People used archivescape to read messages they missed -> so I made the chat view to account for that - Dev

The main thing I notice is that people found archivescape useful, which tells me that I need to make ventscape better - Dev