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SloSumo is doing an awesome job with the tickets + paypal disputes. They're pretty much all caught up. And tickets in general are way down, 488 active tickets right now. 80 or so need my attention... So that's looking good!

SloSumo is also working through the paypal disputes, approving ones who's campaigns didn't activate. And instantly banning + contesting any users attempting to chargeback an active campaign.... We have a zero tolerance policy with PP chargebacks.

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The programmers are busy working on the site, I don't know when we'll perform the downtime to switch to the new datacenter....
Right now Yan is preparing the servers, and the programmers (Alex, Daniel, Paul & a bit of Lucas) are overhauling our code server configs in general. It's a lot of work for absolutely no visual difference - but this is all about the core mechanics of the site, and ultimately whether it works or not at scale. So it's vital & key to the website loading quickly.

Once we're transferred over to the new datacenter and the website is ready for crazy traffic.
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Yesterday I posted the first drafts of the specs for Crowd FAQ: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74988359/crowd-faq.txt

And the upcoming programming queue / staff billing mechanism / user part owership of our portfolio products: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74988359/programmingqueue.txt

These are the two big upcoming evolutions of MTV, to really turn our system into a crowd funding machine, where users both conceptualize + fund all sorts of projects both online & offline.

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We should also hear something next week from PayPal regarding accepting credit cards via BrainTree. We have our account manager pulling strings to get us approved there.

Neteller is in Pauls hands, I expect that'll be installed later this week - once the server transition has been concluded.

And just for your info, here is a report that PayPal sent us the other day; after one idiot made 30+ transaction of $1.38 via credit card, then charged them all back - only $30 worth of fraud; but the credit card chargeback fines are the problem; $25 a hit. But PP should be writing those off for us this time (otherwie that'd be $500+ in fees for $30 of fraud from one individual- which is silly)... And this is the reason for the upcoming limit of 1 transaction per day for new users, and 2 transactions per day for trusted users: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74988359/FuturosNegocios.pdf

But as you can see, our levels of fraud are incredibly low; to the point where one bad individual stands out like crazy... And most disputes we win anyway; the only ones we lose are compromised PP accounts and full on credit card fraud. Which is very rare....
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I'm not sure what i'm doing about a PV AD Issue today... I want to see how the programmers proceed & whether we move over later today or not.

And Cashouts I'll pay tomorrow. The programmers are messing with all sorts of code and we need to check its all working before we process the $30k+ worth of pending cashouts.

Jo

Update from Yan:

Good morning everyone,

We will be tested the new infra this morning, Alex is finishing the redis db and mysql part after what we will make a series of test.

Yesterday we ran into an issue with Dbmaster server, it keep crashes on us while working with the Db.

After a troubleshooting i found out that a memory module was defect and i had to have an operator replace it.

The replacement was done during the night, this morning i ran several stress test tool to make sure the error was gone for good.

I ran the same test on other servers, they are all good, only had issue with one ram slot on dbmaster which caused us some delays.

I expect to be completed by today, the dns switch will occur either today late ( EST time ) or tomorrow.

We will keep you guys updated !

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