Gab Just Became Resilient In A Big Way

Gab ^ | September 30, 2020 | Andrew Torba

[usconservative]

Parlar and Telegram are hard no's from me until they remove the requirement for a cell phone number to sign up.

I cannot speak for Telegram as I don't use it, however Parler DOES NOT require a cellphone number to sign up. You can just as easily use an email address like I do. I've been on Parler since it came to be.

Those who complain about "requirement" for a phone# or photo ID have hit the "VERIFY" button during the registration process. You do NOT need to hit that button.

[PrairieLady2]

I just visited gab and I like their interface better than the others. All I find there tho are vids...is there a chat or a forum or something?

[usconservative]

Gab is completely unresponsive. Their service STILL sucks bollocks.

[lgjhn23]

“...I just visited gab and I like their interface better than the others. All I find there tho are vids...is there a chat or a forum or something?...”

There are groups, news, etc. but right now with the huge influx they’re experiencing, everything is slow or not even coming up...it’s tough to get to them. Give it awhile to settle down, then revisit and explore.

[Amberdawn]

Sounds great and something that all Conservative sites need to do. Perhaps they can partner with others? One good thing to come out of all this fascist behavior by the Left is that it will separate the wheat from the chaff and force us to create our own networks. We need to get on wealthy donors to start a TRUE Conservative TV station.

[mass55th]

"Thanks for the info but I don't have an iPhone"

I wouldn't have one either, but my old 3G plain phone was being interfered with by somebody's network booster. Calls wouldn't go through. I couldn't manually update my roaming capabilities until I drove a few blocks down the street, and the booster icon fell of my screen. Verizon said the only way I could get rid of the problem was move to a smart phone (4G). I use Apple computers, and so bought the cheapest iPhone they had. That was about 6 years ago. I hate all smart phones, and the weird thing is, this phone has worse reception (two bars), than my old 3G did. My son said it's because the internal antennas take up so much space. Soooo, when my calls were regularly being dropped, I called Verizon, and bitched about it, and they sent me a free network booster ($250) because I've been a customer of theirs for almost 20 years.

[Amberdawn]

I’m trying to cancel my amazon account but am having no luck. None of the tutorials I read correspond to the actual page. Anyway, I wrote them an email telling them they’re “canceled”, Lol!

[ponygirl]

Which brings up a good point... does Free Republic keep their own servers? (I assume that’s why they do the fund raisers every quarter.)

[central_va]

Yes FR is privately owned and not part of a 3rd party cloud network. THANK GOD FOR THAT.

[caww]

That would be great!

[Gene Eric]

Nothing short of a multi-comm, distributed environment with asymmetric client/user identity is almost “resilient”.

Any techies here willing to provide PGP guidance and knowledge of the latest algos?

We should all have our public keys on FR with some type of support for ping-list downloads.

This isn’t about hiding our identities. We’re already fully exposed. It’s about some degree of assurance of who we’re talking to should things get fractured.

[Gene Eric]

But also a single point of failure.

[Altura Ct.]

We’re building an alternative internet.

Applause

[Svartalfiar]

“Gab is having difficulty dealing with high volume of new users.”

Probably just growing pains.

They've recently had a huge influx of new users. it's not growing pains, it's growing too fast pains. Servers aren't cheap, and require alot of effort and money to start up in the first place. So you don;t overcompensate much - if you have 200M users, you have a system that supports maybe 400M. When you suddenly jump to 2MM people, it simply can't support that, and it takes time, money, and effort to boost the systems, a HUGE upfront cost. And, if you don't know if the user base will stay that big, it's hard to put that effort in, even you have the ability to do so. (Doesn't apply as much here.)

That's one of the big benefits of Amazon or Oracle or Microsoft's "cloud" systems - they're designed for many small companies, so they can virtually assign you extra server space/processing when your site suddenly gets 20 or 100 times its normal traffic. Then, when it settles back down, you simply are no longer assigned that extra power. But they can do that because they have so mach space to move around, they aren't limited by being for only one or two companies that have to own and maintain their own small systems.

[MayflowerMadam]

“That’s one of the big benefits of Amazon or Oracle or Microsoft’s “cloud” systems”

Technically. But since they HATE us and don’t want us, it’s sort of a moot point.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile....

Gab going all guns blazing on Twitter right now.

Gab, I like the cut of your jib!

[mewzilla]

Uh oh, looks like Gab backed up all the hate on Trump