/pt/ – Petrarchan

hello everyone, what do we post about on here?

>>1311 you can post about whatever you want so long as it is interesting and/or thought provoking >>238 talk about books >>766 talk about movies >>1254 talk about sports >>12 talk about art and so on :)

>>1313 very rare post number, very nice. that's yours forever now

Extremely Rare pd187 geocities picture in OP Post!!! i have found a good place on the internet with good people! fuck yeah

How do I refer to a specific post? I click on their post number but nothing happens. Help :'(

>>1857 it's manual, no javascript here, so just type two quote characters and then write the post number.

Like this? "No.1858"

or 'No.1858'

Oh well, I'm regarded lol. ""No.1858

No, not with the 'No.', just as you see it written in people's posts. Type: > > 1 8 6 1 Get: >>1861

Sorry by quote character i mean the angle thing whatever it's called.

>>1864 >I would call them greentext arrows

>>1864 Thanks for taking the time to explain that. Sorry for the inconvenience :)

>>1866 no worries enjoy the site :)

>>1864 >>1865 Chevron is one of their names.

or greater-than sign

>>1857 I do wish that this site would auto write the post number in your comment box, like 4chan did.

I know that the R number at the top right means the number of responses, but what does the I stand for?

>>1886 I think it refers to the number of images present in the thread.

>1886 Images.

>>1882 I mean when you click on a post number to reply to it, fyi.

admin if you’re reading this can you make it have the number of people online and the total post count at the bottom of the home page like 4chan did? thank you i love you

>>1993 yeah there are some more "quality of life" elements I desire in this chan, but the barebones-ness is also kind of nice. Focus on the threads no more

>>2004 why is there only a /pt/ board? do you plan on adding more or moving some of the larger threads to their own boards?

>>2006 I Like the barebones aspect so far, much needed respite after the BS that 4chan turned into

I guess this is the meta thread now. A warm welcome to everyone on the site, both new and old. Some answers to your questions: >>1882 This is in fact extremely easy to implement, but it requires Javascript, which I have so far not used at all in the implementation of this website. I accept this seems like a minor technical point but I am a software aesthete and it is something I am really reluctant to compromise on. Here's one way of looking at it: if a post is worth replying to, isn't it worth typing six characters to tag it? I don't think making it especially easy to hammer out glib responses is a good thing for the culture of the board. >>1888 Correct. Just like on 4chan! :p >>1993 Number of people online is not going to happen. I know it would help user retention but part of the aim of the site is to be in a sense anti-addictive. Petrarchan is the closest that a forum can get to just being a newspaper. There's no interactive features here and that's deliberate. If you come back it's because of the good posts, not because you got hooked by the blinking lights. Total post count I'm not opposed to in principle I just don't see the point. Do you mean posts in all threads or just number of threads, because the latter is basically always the same number (i.e. the post cap). >>2006 Mostly because the number of people on the board is not very many and it does not make sense to fragment that further. Also, though, I think that r/RSP showed that it is possible to have a unified community that is able to talk about a wide variety of things in depth. As a smart and cultured person, as I am sure that all readers of Petrarchan are, it would be bizarre for you to only be keen on one topic to the exclusion of everything else. Most genuinely intelligent and curious people have a wide variety of interests and I intend for the board to support that sort of outlook. I don't have very much time for people who only find a narrow range of things interesting. For me that is not intelligence, that is just obsession. In point of fact, most things are interesting if you are willing to give the time to understand them. But to answer your question properly: I am not totally opposed to creating additional boards in the future. The capability is already there in the software. Let's see how many people stick around after the present influx and then we will see what the future holds. Visca Petrarchan!

And apologies for the outage. It wasn't me, it was OVH. Blame the French!

Je ne vais blâmer jamais les français how do you actually say this, I've only been learning french for 3 months this is the best I could do

>>2039 There's no way that blâmer is a real French verb.

Maybe there's a word related to English 'culpable', that sounds like a sufficiently French word...

>>2032 Based anti-Javascript aktion. Would Javascript be required for also the comment box pop-up that 4chan had, when you hovered the cursor over a post's number within another reply?

>>2045 I am basically certain that JS would be necessary to achieve that, yes. I know it was a useful feature. Maybe someone can write a browser plugin :^)

the admin

>>2041 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/french-english/blamer tu es un garçon gay

>>2048 it's one thing for it to be in the dictionary, quite another for it to actually be the idiomatic way of expressing that idea

>>2047 I made a mistake, I meant to upload this image

>>2049 you know what, fair

sadly I do not have an especially good moustache :-(

>>2046 Damn, maybe this forum will strengthen my short term memory then. Will you give yourself a name, like moot?

>>2059 dunno, might just use my actual name, i haven't made an effort to keep anonymous so it's trivial to find out if anyone cared

You should scrub whatever names you have related to this, there's too many sharty schizos and other 4cuck schizos who enjoy making peoples lives miserable.

>>2032 Could dark mode be introduced? No Javascript bitcoin miner shit needed: the 'prefers-color-scheme' CSS feature can detect if a user has selected dark mode on his OS/browser. It would also be nice if the width of the posts increased when I zoom out (owing to the massive font size).

>>2074 this is an imageboard of literature, art, and culture. zero interest at all in getting involved in broader 'imageboard culture'. that's not what the site is for and if anyone is here for that i would direct them to 8chan or something. >>2101 i am not opposed to either of these things, thanks for your suggestions.

>>2049 Blâmer is appropriate, although a bit high brow. The issue is the time used. >>2039 Je ne blâmerai jamais les Français. / Jamais je ne blâmerai les Français. = Never will I blame the French. (general truth about you) Je ne vais pas blâmer les Français. = I'm not going to blame the French (right now).

>>2123 neat, I like french verb constructions a lot even though they wound me up as a schoolboy

>>2118 Thanks. You may like to implement some sort of mechanism to prevent AI from posting/scraping the site. I have heard good things about Anubis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668433

>>2032 Admin, do you had any concerns about moderation/compliance stuff as the site grows? I've been interested in making a small site like this for a while but I worried moderation might get tedious.

>>2376 Frankly, yes. but we will see how it goes. I am hopeful that the relatively serious and erudite tone and content of the board will simply bore most trolls. If you're going to be a nuisance on an imageboard I'm not sure why you'd choose this one.

this place sucks

>>2378 Unfortunately the tone is already more imageboard-y than one might like it to be. r/RSP, when it was good, was like this, and had good levels of artposting, etc. It may be because of the reddit account system

Software is SHIT even PHPBB is better lmao

>>2388 80% of people on the site right now had never heard of it three days ago I think it will settle down.

>>2393 Good software for me because I can run the site for a tenner a month :)

>>2045 you don't actually need javascript for that you can have a copy of the html with class "quoted-post" for the quoted post as a child of the link, and then have the style `a:not(:hover) > .quoted-post { display:none; }` >>2032 if you didn't want javascript, you could make the post numbers hit an http endpoint that returns the thread with just the comment form filled in with >>POSTNUMBER (but that might not feel great to use & if you had filled in the reply form a bit it would scrap everything) also idk maybe neither of these would work but i think it should be doable

>>2431 That is actually very smart...