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#2516762 3-Jul-2020 13:35

Well, it took longer than anticipated, mainly because of lockdown and all but I will be terminating my current full-time employment at the end of July.

Again thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier call - it helped a lot to prepare for this situation and how we can cope for the next few months.

I'd like to remind everyone that small things count - a Geekzone subscription, those links to Sharesies, MightyApe, Hatch all help. Also using Geekzone Price and Geekzone Broadband.

Thank you all!

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#2516764 3-Jul-2020 13:41

Just read this and became a Lifetime subscriber.

Absolutley love GZ and it has been so valuable for me in so many ways over the years.

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#2516765 3-Jul-2020 13:41

Good luck with everything, Mauricio.

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#2516805 3-Jul-2020 14:59

Best of luck mate

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat APAC as a Technology Evangelist and Portfolio Architect. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

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#2531272 30-Jul-2020 10:54

freitasm:

Well, it took longer than anticipated, mainly because of lockdown and all but I will be terminating my current full-time employment at the end of July.

Again thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier call - it helped a lot to prepare for this situation and how we can cope for the next few months.

I'd like to remind everyone that small things count - a Geekzone subscription, those links to Sharesies, MightyApe, Hatch all help. Also using Geekzone Price and Geekzone Broadband.

Thank you all!

I have now finished with my (previous) employer... I am back full time on Geekzone until I find another position available for me. As above, using any of these resources always help.

Thank you everyone who has already used one of the links above.

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#2531277 30-Jul-2020 11:00

Big thanks to you for all the hard work you have put into keeping this site running. It's nice to have a site with a local kiwi touch, rather than some global, faceless corporation run site.

Now you'll have time to implement the 999,999 feature requests on your to do list! 🤣

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#2531280 30-Jul-2020 11:09

I was given a six-month free subscription because of this. Once that's over, I'll get the lifetime subscription. In the meantime, I've donated via Paypal.

Keep up the good work @freitasm.

Cheers!

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#2531287 30-Jul-2020 11:20

DarthKermit:

Big thanks to you for all the hard work you have put into keeping this site running. It's nice to have a site with a local kiwi touch, rather than some global, faceless corporation run site.

Now you'll have time to implement the 999,999 feature requests on your to do list! 🤣

I'd happily kick in a few more bucks to "kickstart" work on some of those feature requests (and help with the tough times). I currently subscribe year to year since I've been here longer than 5 years and figure I will be here at least 5 more, but if it would make more of a difference now, happy to upgrade that to the lifetime option?

That or some sweet sweet GZ merch. My current stock of black hoodies and t-shirts is alarmingly low.

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#2531302 30-Jul-2020 11:41

DarthKermit:

Now you'll have time to implement the 999,999 feature requests on your to do list! 🤣

I have not ever stopped... In the last few weeks I actually removed the Google reCaptcha from most pages - except login, contact, Slack and PM. I have also changed the ad code to make it faster and removed five scripts from all pages (which also reduced number of lines of code on the server). I have also blocked lots of bots - some used by companies to track social media presence - some days we were serving almost 100,000 pages to bots, way more than what we serve to actual humans. This means less load on the server too.

Every day a little thing to make better...

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#2531311 30-Jul-2020 11:58

Pardon my ignorance, how do I use the Mighty Ape referral code?

What is the code?

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

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#2531313 30-Jul-2020 12:02

Just click on the link I've posted (or the one in my signature) and whatever you buy after that (for a day or so) will generate a referral to my account. These links are also on the top right of all Geekzone pages.

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#2531314 30-Jul-2020 12:07

I shop quite a bit from there, but just usually go straight to the website via a bookmark bar shortcut.

So if I come here first and then use your MA link, and shop as normal, this works out for you?

Delete cookies?! Are you insane?!

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#2531321 30-Jul-2020 12:20

freitasm: I have now finished with my (previous) employer... I am back full time on Geekzone until I find another position available for me. As above, using any of these resources always help.

I hope you give yourself a week or two to relax and recharge with your family before plunging too deep into GZ-related stuff.

Perhaps remind us what sort of positions you are open to considering? I did search TradeMe Jobs for 'BDFL' in case something interesting was listed that I could forward to you, but weirdly there were no results...

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