I am Patrick. AMA

[Patrick]

People kept wanting me to do this, so here I am.

[Jermys]

When are you coming to Chicago to hang out with us? We're probably just as fun as the CA girls

[SKP82]

If I sent you to the store for cheese and bacon, would you come back with low fat cheese and low sodium bacon?

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:39:28 GMT -5 Jermys said:

When are you coming to Chicago to hang out with us? We're probably just as fun as the CA girls

Chicago is seriously one of my favorite cities, but I doubt I could make it out.

[MWOS]

what's a Cloud Error?

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:40:00 GMT -5 SKP82 said:

If I sent you to the store for cheese and bacon, would you come back with low fat cheese and low sodium bacon?

Hell no, first off I would ask what kind of cheese since that's really vague, and for bacon you want thick strips of deliciousness with all the sodium.

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:40:51 GMT -5 MWOS said:

what's a Cloud Error?

CloudFlare is a company we use to speed up webpages and prevent DDoS attacks on our servers.  Sometimes they have issues and they've continually worked on resolving those.  I know that the 520 errors involve replacing hardware at various data centers around the world, and that will be completed by the end of October.

[Deleted]

Have you ever been to Denver?

[MrsAxilla]

I used to have a snowman badge, but one day it disappeared. Did my hot potato melt him?

[Jermys]

How does one make a gross picture into a spoiler so people have to click on it?

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:43:17 GMT -5 frkls said:

what's it going to take to get the mobile site to say the name of the original poster instead of the last poster?

also, which is your favorite proboard community? (i'll give you a hint. it starts with "g" and ends with "bcn")

If you want that, I'd suggest posting it as a recommendation on our Support Board, then following it up (in the same thread) with everyone posting "me too!" afterwards so that our support guys bring it up at our daily meeting, and then I'd say it has a pretty good chance.

My favorite is our Support Forum, since I created it Over 190,000 members.  But GBCN comes in a close second.

[Jermys]

Also, BOO at not being able to make it to Chicago. You'd think you were a busy owner of a company or something

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:43:53 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

Are there going to be holiday badges?

The snowballs will come back, not sure about other badges.  Maybe some Halloween ones? Not sure.

Sept 26, 2013 16:44:01 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

Have you ever been to Denver?

Never

Sept 26, 2013 16:44:16 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I used to have a snowman badge, but one day it disappeared. Did my hot potato melt him?

When you throw a snowball at someone, they get a 1 week snowman badge.

Sept 26, 2013 16:44:24 GMT -5 Jermys said:

How does one make a gross picture into a spoiler so people have to click on it?

[spoiler][img]IMAGE URL HERE[/img][/spoiler]
But seriously, don't post gross images!

[MWOS]

Patrick, tell us about the day we were born. You came into work one morning, opened your email, clicked on Proboards and BAM! 10,000 new people. Did you think it was an error? Were you like wtf? did you go buy a new BMW?

[Jermys]

It's a gross NEWSY picture. It's practically science!

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:46:53 GMT -5 MWOS said:

Patrick, tell us about the day we were born. You came into work one morning, opened your email, clicked on Proboards and BAM! 10,000 new people. Did you think it was an error? Were you like wtf? did you go buy a new BMW?

We noticed the traffic spike within a few days.  It was a very "Oh, we have a new top forum" moment.  Let's make sure they are happy

We've had forums move to us over the years with large amounts of traffic.  This one was the largest though.  No WTFs, and no new BMW.

[MrsAxilla]

Sept 26, 2013 16:46:34 GMT -5 Patrick said:

Sept 26, 2013 16:44:16 GMT -5 MrsAxilla said:

I used to have a snowman badge, but one day it disappeared. Did my hot potato melt him?

When you throw a snowball at someone, they get a 1 week snowman badge.

Well BOO!  I liked the snowman.

[iamali]

I have no questions. Just give me an awesome and special badge.

TIA.

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:47:44 GMT -5 @scottydeux said:

Most embarrassing moment that you can think of?

Most embarrassing? Uhh.  Okay, got one.  Probably not the most embarassing but maybe funny?

I was in pre-school, and my mom got me on the TV show Romper Room (anyone remember that?).  We were saying the days of the week, and I really wanted to be Friday because Friday is such an awesome day, but I had Wednesday or some other crappy day.  So when it was my turn to say my day of the week, I kept shouting Friday instead of my day.  The lady who ran the show kept shouting over me the correct day.

[iamali]

Oh, I do have a question though thanks to MwOS's posted.

Have you ever had the urge to write the Nest and be like "What's up motherfuckers!?"?

[Jermys]

Sept 26, 2013 16:50:48 GMT -5 @champagna said:

Do you think that the flaming potato in the ProBoards Gentleman Potato ad sort of TOTALLY looks like a penis from far away?

FTFY

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:49:10 GMT -5 milsaroo said:

Paaaaaaaaaaaaatrick!




... Hi.

Hi.

Sept 26, 2013 16:49:40 GMT -5 iamali said:

I have no questions. Just give me an awesome and special badge.

TIA.

There you go.  And no, I will not give anyone else badges.  First come first serve, done now.

Sept 26, 2013 16:50:48 GMT -5 @champagna said:

Do you think that the flaming potato in the ProBoards Gentleman Potato ad sort of looks like a penis from far away?

No, I think you guys have dirty minds or something.

[iamali]

Whooo-hoooo!

Thanks Patrick!

[Glitter Tits]

What's your fantasy? In the library on top of some books?

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:51:02 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Will we ever get notifications on the app? Or are they already available and I'm an idiot?

It is something that will come eventually, but it is not our current focus.

Sept 26, 2013 16:51:28 GMT -5 iamali said:

Oh, I do have a question though thanks to MwOS's posted.

Have you ever had the urge to write the Nest and be like "What's up motherfuckers!?"?

I'm not one to go around stirring up drama.  I won't lie though, I'm happy they messed up so that we have this awesome community here.

Sept 26, 2013 16:51:33 GMT -5 frkls said:

Sept 26, 2013 16:46:53 GMT -5 MWOS said:

Patrick, tell us about the day we were born. You came into work one morning, opened your email, clicked on Proboards and BAM! 10,000 new people. Did you think it was an error? Were you like wtf? did you go buy a new BMW?

this is a good one!! did you follow any of that fall-out?

I did some Googling and even joined TheNest to see what the heck was going on.

Sept 26, 2013 16:52:30 GMT -5 kooshball said:

How much do you make on the ads? Do we have to click on them for you to make money or do you just make more if we click? How about buy something from the click?

Different ads pay different amounts.  Most of it is managed by a third party company.  Some ads we get paid when you see it, others when you click, and still others when you click & buy.

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:54:40 GMT -5 Glitter Tits said:

What's your fantasy? In the library on top of some books?

But you can't be too loud.

[styme46]

Have you ever been to Wyoming?

I, too, would like a super special badge simply because I live in BFE Wyoming and never get to have GTGs with anyone!

[Patrick]

Sept 26, 2013 16:55:10 GMT -5 styme46 said:

Have you ever been to Wyoming?

I, too, would like a super special badge simply because I live in BFE Wyoming and never get to have GTGs with anyone!

Never been.  And sorry, one badge per thread, already given one out.

[styme46]

Sept 26, 2013 16:56:39 GMT -5 Patrick said:

Sept 26, 2013 16:55:10 GMT -5 styme46 said:

Have you ever been to Wyoming?

I, too, would like a super special badge simply because I live in BFE Wyoming and never get to have GTGs with anyone!

Never been.  And sorry, one badge per thread, already given one out.

Well now I think I like you a little less.  Guess I'll just have to start a new thread to ask for one!

[Deleted]

Thanks for giving us a place to gather, Patrick.