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Ralph Damiano
Role	Developer of Stick Nodes
Location	Connecticut, USA
Birthday	February 3, 1991
Twitter	FTLRalph
Youtube	FTLRalph
Other Websites	My portfolio, My dev-blog
Favorite color	#0096FF
Favorite number	√2
Favorite animated show	Insert Jojo reference here. Also the Dragon Ball series for sure because that's what started it all. My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Dr. Stone too. Non-anime (kinda) however, the Avatar series (ATLA and Korra) too.
Favorite non-animated show	Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones. House gets an honorable mention.
Favorite movie	Not much of a movie person, idk. I did force myself to watch the Marvel movies and they weren't bad to be honest so, yeah, Endgame I guess.
Favorite video game	I don't play much of anything so in terms of nostalgia there's Tomba 1 and 2, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter among others. The original Genesis Sonic games are up there too.
Favorite food	Orange chicken but, like, not the authentic kind. More like the sugar-chicken version where it just rots your teeth away as you eat it.
Ralph started making Stick Nodes one day because he was bored. He grew up practically addicted to a stickfigure-animation program called Pivot which sparked his interest in both animation and game development. Eventually he got into Flash animation and Flash game development. He released quite a few games into the Flash gaming community, check out his portfolio for links. Once mobile devices started taking over, he moved over to attempt Android games. After a few failed attempts, he released Plunder Peril - a quick 2-3 week project that was meant as Android-development practice. After Plunder Peril, Ralph began work on Stick Nodes and in August 2014, Stick Nodes was released on Android with the iOS version following in November. Stick Nodes is built in Java with the LibGDX framework and uses RoboVM to port to iOS. Fast forward to March 2020 when he was revising this page and he honestly can't believe Stick Nodes is still going so strong. Onward to world domination... Fast forward again to August 2023 and really, I haven't been cancelled yet?

Sean Byrnes
Role	Site administrator, comedic relief
Location	NSW, Australia
Birthday	January 26, 1992
Twitter	S_Byrnes
Youtube	Sean Byrnes
Other Websites	None lol
Favorite color	Yellow.
Favorite number	42
Favorite animated show	Family Guy, American Dad and, like Ralph, Dragon Ball.
Favorite non-animated show	The Big Bang Theory, Limitless, Criminal Minds & The Flash.
Favorite movie	The Bucket List, Zombie Land & The Matrix.
Favorite video game	The latest Call of Duty, Project Cars, Battlefield & Assassins Creed.
Favorite food	Pancakes, KFC & Marinated Slow Cooked Roast Beef.
Sean is the site administrator and creator of the stickfigure submission system as well as a majority of the DBZ stickfigures. He also has a funny accent. At around age 12 he discovered Pivot, ended up on Droidz.org looking for stickfigures to use in his animations, got fairly good after about 2 years. He decided to make a website to host his animations on after having been on the forums for a long time. That's what got him into webdesign since the first iteration of his website was a terrible looking flash-based thing that at the time he thought was the best thing out. After a while he realized how stupid it looked and behaved. So he looked into HTML and CSS, got it looking slightly better but it wasn't until he found WordPress that it started looking decent. After that he went off the grid for a bit, got his Cert IV in IT and Webdesign, cemented his understanding of the internet protocols. Lately he's been helping out around the Stick Nodes community and has been managing Animation Alpha. He's also been looking into game development and has begun a project that he hopes to finish one day soon, he can't really reveal anything about it but it's for mobile devices and will be a 2D sidescroller.

Onehighjump

Ralph the next button downloads something.

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Ralph (Developer)

Yare yare daze

Thanks for letting me know. I had no idea, that’s new. Trying to look into it.

Also these 500 errors though.

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DmLan

How to make your website broken with Ralph Damiano.

I’m an expert at that.

Berke381

Everyone knows that

Alex

Please fix the site. It’s a mess, nothing will load, Andy if it does, I’m soon met with a 500 error page. It’s so slow now, it takes ages to load in the images of the stickfigures, if I’m lucky to by pass the 500 error

And*

Also, that comment took a full minute to post

I’M TRYING JUST HOLD ON TO YOUR PANTS.

ROLVO, PLS FİX

I did have a full comment talking about how broken the site is, but it didn’t post

İ hate 500 errors.

Days random thing

İ see this
Belive me
http://m.imgur.com/0695G1g

Everyone did see this.
At first I got spooked because I thought Ralph sold Sticknodes to Microsoft.
Just like in my dreams.

The website has been very bad lately, sorry guys.

Working on it, just want to let you know.

y me couldn’t access it

Take your time, I’ll wait.

The issue seems to stem from the plugin that I use to handle the stickfigures. Long story short, it’s not optimized, mainly with the handling of the thumbnails.

Couple that with the spike in traffic and the website explodes.

I’m not a web developer so I’m unclear on how to go about fixing it myself, which is why this is taking a while as I have to go through my webhost.

Days random thing.

Where Did the Thumbnails Go: The Saga of the Missing Images – An Epic Novel by Ralph Damiano

I actually lol’d.

If that was a pun about the website, I approve.

So anyway it seems the thumbnail processing was a major factor to the slowness/CPU usage/500 errors. By replacing them with static images, the server load is lessened.

You can still see the thumbnail on the individual file page though, I left that since it’s only processing 1 image at a time, vs 20 per page for every user browsing.

Looking into a permanent solution, but this is the bandage for now.

malone's other other account

omg ralph the website
fix

I just love how everyone is both panicking and angry when the website is broken.
And then there’s me.
Hi.
I’m Felix.
I really don’t care about the website’s status.