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This thread is only for feedback related to technical issues (bug reports, suggestions).

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Temporary Operating Agreement
Governance & Operations for leftypol.org

Whereas, /leftypol/ is currently without a constitution, until such time as constitution is drafted and affirmed by vote, the following rules will govern the management of leftypol.org and all associated projects.

1. The governing structure of leftypol is defined to be a modocracy i.e. a democracy of the volunteer moderators (which includes admins, developers, and moderators - those holding the rank of janitor do not count as moderators for the purposes of voting). Any references to voting hereafter refer to a vote of the modocracy.
2. All major non-technical decisions must be put to a simple majority vote. After one week the voting period will be considered over. In the case of a tie, the measure fails.
3. Any future constitution will be ratified by two thirds majority after a period of at least 30 days.
4. New staff members will be added at the rank of janitor, and after an evaluation/vetting period they may be promoted to moderator or higher upon a simple majority vote.
5. Any decision to add or remove staff members/moderators is subject to a two thirds majority vote.

This agreement itself is being imposed unilaterally and is not subject to review of the modocracy or repeal by vote. This agreement automatically expires upon the ratification of a new constitution under rule 3.

- cyberbarbarian, /leftypol/ admin and tech team member.

This thread is for feedback, suggestions, complaints, questions etc. regarding leftybooru, the main image repository used by /leftypol/

https://lefty.pictures/

Leftybooru FAQ and Rules:
https://lefty.pictures/wiki/help:home

I'll make this brief. /leftypol/ was offline from around September 9, 2024 (Monday) until September 12, 2024 (Thursday). This was due to a hard disk failure on the server. When the split happened a few years ago, one of the previous mods/admins rented a bare metal server from a company (as opposed to a VPS/virtual machine instance) for us to host /leftypol/ on. As a result the hardware was not abstracted away. We were unable to boot the machine. Furthermore this individual, having paid for the server in advance, has since gone missing and has been so for at least 34 weeks. We were unable to log into the cloud account due to it sending his email address confirmation message which we were obviously unable to access. As a result, we could not ask the hosting company for support. Also as a result, the only thing we had access to was the cloudflare and a dated sql dump+copy of the source code. As far as I know, the media files (including pdfs), wiki, minecraft server, leftypol tv, etc. are all gone and even if the aforementioned individual returns, its possible that it still won't be able to be recovered due to the fact that they were on a hard disk that failed.

In order to rebuild /leftypol/ we had to secure new hosting, spin up and configure a server with software, firewall, etc. transfer and fix+configure the vichan/lain/leftypol source code, and load the SQL database dump, as well as configure cloudflare. This process was painstaking and slow. I suppose this goes to show the precarious nature of /leftypol/ in that both the domain name (paid for 10 years in advance and donated to the current mod team) and hosting have/are being paid by one individual as a passion project.

We are working diligently to secure backups so this will not happen again in the future.

Thank you for your patience - tech jannies

i dont give a single fuck to you all dumb communists sack of shit

but tell me this…

WHY IS 420CHAN REDIRECTING ME TO THIS SHITHOLE?

Purposing a change to improve the legibility of the Jungle theme: a text shadow with a darker green and orange to make the quote text pop.

span.orangeQuote {
    color: #FF8C00;
    text-shadow:  0.05em  0.05em orange;
}
.quote {
  color: #789922;
  text-shadow:  0.05em 0.05em green;
}

420chan.org redirected me here. I know it got sold and it's been down for a while, but why redirect here? I don't want things to change. I want them to stay the same. Please tell me everything will be alright.

why tf isn't LGBT its own board but instead an obscure thread in this board's /b/ equivalent (because apparently queer folk existing isn't political enough to be on the main board despite the fact there are several country exclusive main boards there)? It's how the right-wing infested board gives us better representation a space to be among our own but the supposedly leftist one doesn't