LifeSunDeath posted:Noticed we get popup notifications about PM's now, that's rad. Would be nice to get pings when you get replies/mentions on threads. Xen I think can do this but it doesn't have mod stuff like our probation system or lepers / dump?
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 21:20 |
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Fast moving threads in xen are weird and ungainly and it's actually kind of more cumbersome on mobile than here, at least for posting Odd that sa is actually kind of better in some ways
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 21:22 |
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Justin Godscock posted:Yes, I think a big problem SA had was this belief the Front Page and Forums have to be kept separate. Almost like the latter was tacked onto the site and needs to be kept away from the Front Page because it will drag the site down. In this very thread you have quite a few people saying they read the front page for years before they registered an account, and that makes sense. If you just drop people in the forums without any context, they're going to check out immediately rather than set to work deciphering the in-jokes and references of a 500-page megathread. Let people be eased into becoming goons. I think we should absolutely still have a front page, just a better one than we have today, and yes, more integrated with the forums. No one is going to force you to browse the improved front page. You can continue to not read it and make jokes about not reading it. Personally, I have fond memories of laughing out loud, sometimes uncontrollably, at some of the better articles from the past, and I see no reason whatsoever why we can't attempt to recreate that with Lowtax gone.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 21:42 |
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It would probably end up being an invitation to trolls, but something on the frontpage that made clear the forums weren't a home for the kind of grossness and far right poo poo that is (largely) kept out by the paywall and moderation here unlike every other internet would be pretty cool. That way it wouldn't just look like "reddit, except you pay for it"
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HateTheInternet posted:The front page's heyday was probably 2005 - 2010. I remember the beginning of 2006 there were suddenly twice as many individuals on the writing staff and every couple of months there was suddenly a brand new regularly updated feature.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 21:47 |
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BoldFrankensteinMir posted:The revival got choked in the cradle. So many fun ideas, buried under so much bullshit. A YouTube channel, also featured on the front page? Why not, as long as we avoid the trap of the current daily updates, where there is pressure on writers to deliver 'content' like clockwork, basically encouraging them to phone it in and exhausting/overwhelming the potential audience. Only make YT videos if you actually do something funny and/or informative that truly benefits from that format. No one wants another Gaming Garbage. Better to have a limited selection, especially in the beginning when people are still finding their footing, than a ton of mediocre clickbait videos because authors felt that it was something they 'had' to do.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 21:54 |
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Phlegmish posted:Personally, I have fond memories of laughing out loud, sometimes uncontrollably, at some of the better articles from the past, and I see no reason whatsoever why we can't attempt to recreate that with Lowtax gone. There are phrases still echoing in my head from the old Awful Movie Database articles. Incorrectly Regarded as Goofs: When grooming his horse, Red Cobra states that he used to "Ride down the French and pound their skulls into the Crimean mud". It is possible that rather than being almost 150 years old, Red Cobra simply killed French tourists visiting the Crimean Peninsula.
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# ? Oct 15, 2020 22:13 |
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# ? Oct 16, 2020 00:47 |
Phlegmish posted:A YouTube channel, also featured on the front page? Why not, as long as we avoid the trap of the current daily updates, where there is pressure on writers to deliver 'content' like clockwork, basically encouraging them to phone it in and exhausting/overwhelming the potential audience. Only make YT videos if you actually do something funny and/or informative that truly benefits from that format. You could make a pretty steady stream of short animated films based just on the snippets of screenplay floating around the forums. Imagine an all-pilots show, where every episode is another goon's TV show pilot, voiced by other forums users and animated with charming cheapness. Or, imagine if really good Phridays got the Judo Hobo treatment, like 5-10 times a year. It is all possible.
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# ? Oct 16, 2020 04:07 |
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Should just be goatse and you have to click the ring to redirect to forums
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# ? Oct 16, 2020 04:22 |
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It's time to bring back Hentai Reviews.
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# ? Oct 16, 2020 04:43 |
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Pretty good posted:It's time to bring back Hentai Reviews. Let me save everyone some time 1/5 stars right across the board. The quality of hentai being released these days is abysmal.
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# ? Oct 16, 2020 04:51 |
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I mean, something like that could be funny, although maybe this time the articles shouldn't be sponsored by a hentai distributor
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