Hi /pt/, I fixed the thing where old threads get bumped by spam posts and then don't drop back down the catalog when the useless replies get deleted. At the same time I bumped the version of the web framework, seems to work fine on my end but if anyone has any issues please let me know. You may have noticed that I added some nav links at the bottom of threads recently too, hopefully they are useful. Anyway I've noticed a bit of an increase in posts about the site culture and moderation so consider this an admin approved thread for discussing these topics frankly and openly. I know there are not really any published rules for the board or anything and that is deliberate but I am happy to answer questions here about my own 'philosophy' if that is not too grand a word. cheers, jack p.s. have been enjoying processing the submissions for ventoux issue 2, you can still submit! the email is ventoux at this domain.
site updates + meta thread :
jgb (Admin) :
1 year ago :
No.6308
>>6317
>>6308 (OP)
>hopefully they are useful.
They are, thanks!
>>6552>>6308 (OP)
Please add the ability to quick-reply to a post by clicking its number; that'd be a huge QoL improvement.
Thank you for your work thus far.
>>7302>>6308 (OP)
Quoting another thread:
>Anon: It's clear either way admin has no overt interest in distinguishing this website from 4chan.
>Admin: I do, but I was rather hoping it could be done without heavy moderation.
Like I said there, 4chan is heavily moderated, just not well. It's far easier for a shitty user to ruin a discussion than for a good user to fix one.
Set up some rules and expectations, and you can be transparent about what gets culled. You wouldn't be the first to brand offenders with USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST in big red letters.
>>7877>>6308 (OP)
do you accept PRs to the source code? for feature contributions like
>>6552
which should be achievable w/o js by using a styled <a> tag with an anchor href.
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6312
>>6318
>>6312
It's important to me that literature is one of the main things discussed on the board, in part because literature is one of the closest things to my own heart, but also because a board which discusses serious books is likely to have good discussion about most other things.
Implicit here is the answer to your question, which is that I do not desire for /pt/ to be exclusively about literature. The governing principle of the board should be a vibe and a certain amount of common feeling among the users rather than a content policy. This is, approximately, how rsp works, and in its heydey it was an extremely good web forum. It's still better than most others.
On the topic of content policies: I despise nothing more than despotic little reddit mods who get two inch hard ons every time they ban someone for violating rule 17 subsection (b). I would prefer you to think that my moderation is arbitrary and opinionated than pedantic and smug.
>>6317
I'm glad :)
One thing I wanted to know, do you want this to be a more strictly /lit/-focused board?
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6317
>>6318
>>6312
It's important to me that literature is one of the main things discussed on the board, in part because literature is one of the closest things to my own heart, but also because a board which discusses serious books is likely to have good discussion about most other things.
Implicit here is the answer to your question, which is that I do not desire for /pt/ to be exclusively about literature. The governing principle of the board should be a vibe and a certain amount of common feeling among the users rather than a content policy. This is, approximately, how rsp works, and in its heydey it was an extremely good web forum. It's still better than most others.
On the topic of content policies: I despise nothing more than despotic little reddit mods who get two inch hard ons every time they ban someone for violating rule 17 subsection (b). I would prefer you to think that my moderation is arbitrary and opinionated than pedantic and smug.
>>6317
I'm glad :)
>>6308 (OP)
>hopefully they are useful.
They are, thanks!
>>6312
One thing I wanted to know, do you want this to be a more strictly /lit/-focused board?
It's important to me that literature is one of the main things discussed on the board, in part because literature is one of the closest things to my own heart, but also because a board which discusses serious books is likely to have good discussion about most other things.
Implicit here is the answer to your question, which is that I do not desire for /pt/ to be exclusively about literature. The governing principle of the board should be a vibe and a certain amount of common feeling among the users rather than a content policy. This is, approximately, how rsp works, and in its heydey it was an extremely good web forum. It's still better than most others.
On the topic of content policies: I despise nothing more than despotic little reddit mods who get two inch hard ons every time they ban someone for violating rule 17 subsection (b). I would prefer you to think that my moderation is arbitrary and opinionated than pedantic and smug.
>>6317>>6308 (OP)
>hopefully they are useful.
They are, thanks!
I'm glad :)
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6538
>>6545
>>6538
sorry, but this is unlikely to happen because as you note the copyright risk is significant and pdfs are a potential vector for attacks similar to the 4chan hack.
>>6542
yes, I do. it is not perfect, I sometimes wish that people would respond a bit more constructively to each other, and of course we could do with more traffic and post volume, but I think the board is on a steady upwards trajectory and I view the building of the community here as an ongoing and collaborative process.
Hi admin. I think it would be cool if we could upload .pdfs, and would fit in the theme of the board. I think the potential benefit to this outweighs the security and legal problems (let's bring trust back to the small-i internet).
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6542
>>6545
>>6538
sorry, but this is unlikely to happen because as you note the copyright risk is significant and pdfs are a potential vector for attacks similar to the 4chan hack.
>>6542
yes, I do. it is not perfect, I sometimes wish that people would respond a bit more constructively to each other, and of course we could do with more traffic and post volume, but I think the board is on a steady upwards trajectory and I view the building of the community here as an ongoing and collaborative process.
Do you like what you've created?
Anonymous (Admin) :
1 year ago :
No.6545
>>6548
>>6545
You really want this place to be super professional and serious lol, should just accept being part of the internet dredges and let the black flag fly... Ah well. Maybe I'll host an IPFS instance or smth
>>6538
Hi admin. I think it would be cool if we could upload .pdfs, and would fit in the theme of the board. I think the potential benefit to this outweighs the security and legal problems (let's bring trust back to the small-i internet).
sorry, but this is unlikely to happen because as you note the copyright risk is significant and pdfs are a potential vector for attacks similar to the 4chan hack.
>>6542Do you like what you've created?
yes, I do. it is not perfect, I sometimes wish that people would respond a bit more constructively to each other, and of course we could do with more traffic and post volume, but I think the board is on a steady upwards trajectory and I view the building of the community here as an ongoing and collaborative process.
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6548
>>6549
>>6548
I absolutely do not want it to be 'professional and serious' lol. This whole project is about carving out a place on the web that is entirely independent of 'professional and serious' (i.e. amoral) big tech. I just want to minimise the possibility of the board getting vandalised / having to take it offline.
>>6545
>>6538
sorry, but this is unlikely to happen because as you note the copyright risk is significant and pdfs are a potential vector for attacks similar to the 4chan hack.
>>6542
yes, I do. it is not perfect, I sometimes wish that people would respond a bit more constructively to each other, and of course we could do with more traffic and post volume, but I think the board is on a steady upwards trajectory and I view the building of the community here as an ongoing and collaborative process.
You really want this place to be super professional and serious lol, should just accept being part of the internet dredges and let the black flag fly... Ah well. Maybe I'll host an IPFS instance or smth
>>6548
>>6545
You really want this place to be super professional and serious lol, should just accept being part of the internet dredges and let the black flag fly... Ah well. Maybe I'll host an IPFS instance or smth
I absolutely do not want it to be 'professional and serious' lol. This whole project is about carving out a place on the web that is entirely independent of 'professional and serious' (i.e. amoral) big tech. I just want to minimise the possibility of the board getting vandalised / having to take it offline.
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6552
>>6553
>>6552
This
>>7877>>6308 (OP)
do you accept PRs to the source code? for feature contributions like
>>6552
which should be achievable w/o js by using a styled <a> tag with an anchor href.
>>6308 (OP)
Please add the ability to quick-reply to a post by clicking its number; that'd be a huge QoL improvement.
Thank you for your work thus far.
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.6553
>>6554
>>6553
I'm not the admin, but my understanding is that that's hard to do w/o JavaScript, which the admin doesn't like
>>6552
>>6308 (OP)
Please add the ability to quick-reply to a post by clicking its number; that'd be a huge QoL improvement.
Thank you for your work thus far.
This
Admin, add free punjabi flash games that I can play whilst waiting for a reply to my genius posts.
Good job.
Anonymous :
1 year ago :
No.7245
>>7253
>>7245
the software records your IP along with the post you make. when the thread falls off the bottom of the catalog your post, and the IP associated with it, is entirely deleted. you can check the source code to prove this if you care.
Does this site also keeps a record of every message (with the associated IP) like 4cucks does?
>>7245
Does this site also keeps a record of every message (with the associated IP) like 4cucks does?
the software records your IP along with the post you make. when the thread falls off the bottom of the catalog your post, and the IP associated with it, is entirely deleted. you can check the source code to prove this if you care.
>>6308 (OP)
Quoting another thread:
>Anon: It's clear either way admin has no overt interest in distinguishing this website from 4chan.
>Admin: I do, but I was rather hoping it could be done without heavy moderation.
Like I said there, 4chan is heavily moderated, just not well. It's far easier for a shitty user to ruin a discussion than for a good user to fix one.
Set up some rules and expectations, and you can be transparent about what gets culled. You wouldn't be the first to brand offenders with USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST in big red letters.
Are you not entertained????
Anonymous :
334 days ago :
No.7877
>>7887
>>7877
sure, you can send a PR. No guarantee that I will accept it though :p
>>6308 (OP)
do you accept PRs to the source code? for feature contributions like
>>6552
>>6308 (OP)
Please add the ability to quick-reply to a post by clicking its number; that'd be a huge QoL improvement.
Thank you for your work thus far.
which should be achievable w/o js by using a styled <a> tag with an anchor href.
>>7877
>>6308 (OP)
do you accept PRs to the source code? for feature contributions like
>>6552
which should be achievable w/o js by using a styled <a> tag with an anchor href.
sure, you can send a PR. No guarantee that I will accept it though :p
Easy way to stop the spam: restrict to ASCII
Nah admin has just left this place out to dry until it finally croaks for good
He's too busy serving pints to Barry to sit at home and write boring-ass spam catcher code. I do not blame him one bit.
Literally comments on reddit 100x more than his own website that he wrote the whole fucking backend for. If that's not chad behavior I don't know what is.
But having a reddit account is cucked
Admin! Delete your reddit account and return to your people
Anonymous (Admin) :
317 days ago :
No.7950
>>7954
>>7950
I'm sure there are public lists out there. A quick search led me to several on github.
The admin of Rateyourmusic does this but it's trivially easy to get past by using an exit node in a smaller country with lesser-used servers. Not sure if he rolls his own list or uses public ones. It sucks for a lot of people, e.g. Chinese users. It's not a perfect system.
IP blocking also runs the risk of punishing those behind a CGNAT like mobile users.
Geoblocking is stupid too, practically 20th century security at this point -- though if you want to ban all American users you would see the quality of discussion increase dramatically. Food for thought...
There's a lot of security debate out there about how IP-based blocking isn't the number one solution, or shouldn't be used exclusively. Also banning links won't stop the kiddy porn posters as they use images, and this is an imageboard. Sorry that webhosting sucks so much in current year. I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
Sorry guys, tbh i got a bit rattled by the cp and neglected the site for a bit. Posting is back, but no links allowed any more.
If anyone knows a good way of blocking VPN IPs let me know, literally all unwanted posts come from VPNs.
Anonymous :
317 days ago :
No.7954
>>7968
>>7954
>I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
So do I. I do think the web was better when it was more text than images though. Imageboards like this are quaint and nostalgic now but were once the cutting edge of rotting the internet. I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too. Lately, I've been hanging out on parts of the internet that are not the web. It's better, but there's literally nothing that can be done about the externality of 99.9% of people using the internet in the decadent fashion they have been for the past couple decades. If you opt out of the derangement machine and everyone else opts in, you still have to deal with crazy people all the time. It's just the crazy people become society rather than a mere subset that uses the derangement machine.
>>7950
Sorry guys, tbh i got a bit rattled by the cp and neglected the site for a bit. Posting is back, but no links allowed any more.
If anyone knows a good way of blocking VPN IPs let me know, literally all unwanted posts come from VPNs.
I'm sure there are public lists out there. A quick search led me to several on github.
The admin of Rateyourmusic does this but it's trivially easy to get past by using an exit node in a smaller country with lesser-used servers. Not sure if he rolls his own list or uses public ones. It sucks for a lot of people, e.g. Chinese users. It's not a perfect system.
IP blocking also runs the risk of punishing those behind a CGNAT like mobile users.
Geoblocking is stupid too, practically 20th century security at this point -- though if you want to ban all American users you would see the quality of discussion increase dramatically. Food for thought...
There's a lot of security debate out there about how IP-based blocking isn't the number one solution, or shouldn't be used exclusively. Also banning links won't stop the kiddy porn posters as they use images, and this is an imageboard. Sorry that webhosting sucks so much in current year. I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
Anonymous :
316 days ago :
No.7955
>>7970
>>7968
>I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too.
That's interesting, and made me realise it probably has to do with the information density of an image, and how that means it can easily supersede text. You can spread around a copypasta, but it's nowhere near as immediate in effect as an image. No images on a site means it demands a different kind of attention, and I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted to /lit/, but it seemed dead on arrival.
That said, no images means you're missing out on a really information-dense medium. It's part of why I think /mu/ worked for so long: album art is most often a very permanent and representative image associated with the album itself, more so than say a book cover. Some /mu/core album could get in your head before you even listen to it because you'd already seen it a million times.
I can imagine a hybrid solution where image uploads are almost entirely separate from primary discourse, where images are submitted to a queue similar to what >>7955 says, but the post would go through before, and irrespective of, the image approval; a post could reference an image with say an embed, but would exist independently. Approved images are then permanently hosted (maybe that's a little onerous) and can be referenced by users. But this is me bullshitting, not really suggesting it.
Put all new posts with images in a mod queue?
Anonymous :
313 days ago :
No.7966
>>7967
>>7966
was pasting the pasta here offensive? to whom?
in case: sorry, need to be more careful next time
>>7971>>7966 >>7967
Are you guys referring to >>7957? That's Portuguese, obviously.
>>7970
I don't think admin wants queues because it increases his workload by a hundred. And he already has a job and life outside of the internet (somehow). The spam only started when this place got advertisement from imageboard circles and other second-hand chan backwash like Kiwifarms -- for a full year and a half or so it was just folks from reddit and was totally fine and even rather active.
Proposal: ban the Spanish language from petrarchan. It's what Charlie Kirk would have wanted.
Anonymous :
313 days ago :
No.7967
>>7971
>>7966 >>7967
Are you guys referring to >>7957? That's Portuguese, obviously.
>>7970
I don't think admin wants queues because it increases his workload by a hundred. And he already has a job and life outside of the internet (somehow). The spam only started when this place got advertisement from imageboard circles and other second-hand chan backwash like Kiwifarms -- for a full year and a half or so it was just folks from reddit and was totally fine and even rather active.
>>7966
Proposal: ban the Spanish language from petrarchan. It's what Charlie Kirk would have wanted.
was pasting the pasta here offensive? to whom?
in case: sorry, need to be more careful next time
Anonymous :
313 days ago :
No.7968
>>7970
>>7968
>I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too.
That's interesting, and made me realise it probably has to do with the information density of an image, and how that means it can easily supersede text. You can spread around a copypasta, but it's nowhere near as immediate in effect as an image. No images on a site means it demands a different kind of attention, and I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted to /lit/, but it seemed dead on arrival.
That said, no images means you're missing out on a really information-dense medium. It's part of why I think /mu/ worked for so long: album art is most often a very permanent and representative image associated with the album itself, more so than say a book cover. Some /mu/core album could get in your head before you even listen to it because you'd already seen it a million times.
I can imagine a hybrid solution where image uploads are almost entirely separate from primary discourse, where images are submitted to a queue similar to what >>7955 says, but the post would go through before, and irrespective of, the image approval; a post could reference an image with say an embed, but would exist independently. Approved images are then permanently hosted (maybe that's a little onerous) and can be referenced by users. But this is me bullshitting, not really suggesting it.
>>7990>>7968
The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies. Difficult to get back what we have lost
>>7954
>>7950
I'm sure there are public lists out there. A quick search led me to several on github.
The admin of Rateyourmusic does this but it's trivially easy to get past by using an exit node in a smaller country with lesser-used servers. Not sure if he rolls his own list or uses public ones. It sucks for a lot of people, e.g. Chinese users. It's not a perfect system.
IP blocking also runs the risk of punishing those behind a CGNAT like mobile users.
Geoblocking is stupid too, practically 20th century security at this point -- though if you want to ban all American users you would see the quality of discussion increase dramatically. Food for thought...
There's a lot of security debate out there about how IP-based blocking isn't the number one solution, or shouldn't be used exclusively. Also banning links won't stop the kiddy porn posters as they use images, and this is an imageboard. Sorry that webhosting sucks so much in current year. I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
>I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
So do I. I do think the web was better when it was more text than images though. Imageboards like this are quaint and nostalgic now but were once the cutting edge of rotting the internet. I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too. Lately, I've been hanging out on parts of the internet that are not the web. It's better, but there's literally nothing that can be done about the externality of 99.9% of people using the internet in the decadent fashion they have been for the past couple decades. If you opt out of the derangement machine and everyone else opts in, you still have to deal with crazy people all the time. It's just the crazy people become society rather than a mere subset that uses the derangement machine.
Anonymous :
313 days ago :
No.7970
>>7971
>>7966 >>7967
Are you guys referring to >>7957? That's Portuguese, obviously.
>>7970
I don't think admin wants queues because it increases his workload by a hundred. And he already has a job and life outside of the internet (somehow). The spam only started when this place got advertisement from imageboard circles and other second-hand chan backwash like Kiwifarms -- for a full year and a half or so it was just folks from reddit and was totally fine and even rather active.
>>8085>>7970
>I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted
Share. I don't care how doomed you think it is, that still sounds better.
>>7990
>The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies
You'd have to be specific about what you mean by long and boring. It may just be that you're one of the externality types I'm talking about. Or it could just be that externality plus selection bias, because there are plenty of people capable of a text only community. I was there. I saw it. It disappeared when iPhones and Facebook brought the dregs in and then a billion or two third worlders logged on as well, which was just too much for internet culture to acclimate in such a short amount of time.
>>7968
>>7954
>I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
So do I. I do think the web was better when it was more text than images though. Imageboards like this are quaint and nostalgic now but were once the cutting edge of rotting the internet. I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too. Lately, I've been hanging out on parts of the internet that are not the web. It's better, but there's literally nothing that can be done about the externality of 99.9% of people using the internet in the decadent fashion they have been for the past couple decades. If you opt out of the derangement machine and everyone else opts in, you still have to deal with crazy people all the time. It's just the crazy people become society rather than a mere subset that uses the derangement machine.
>I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too.
That's interesting, and made me realise it probably has to do with the information density of an image, and how that means it can easily supersede text. You can spread around a copypasta, but it's nowhere near as immediate in effect as an image. No images on a site means it demands a different kind of attention, and I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted to /lit/, but it seemed dead on arrival.
That said, no images means you're missing out on a really information-dense medium. It's part of why I think /mu/ worked for so long: album art is most often a very permanent and representative image associated with the album itself, more so than say a book cover. Some /mu/core album could get in your head before you even listen to it because you'd already seen it a million times.
I can imagine a hybrid solution where image uploads are almost entirely separate from primary discourse, where images are submitted to a queue similar to what >>7955Put all new posts with images in a mod queue?
says, but the post would go through before, and irrespective of, the image approval; a post could reference an image with say an embed, but would exist independently. Approved images are then permanently hosted (maybe that's a little onerous) and can be referenced by users. But this is me bullshitting, not really suggesting it.
>>7966
Proposal: ban the Spanish language from petrarchan. It's what Charlie Kirk would have wanted.
>>7967>>7966
was pasting the pasta here offensive? to whom?
in case: sorry, need to be more careful next time
Are you guys referring to >>7957? That's Portuguese, obviously.
>>7970>>7968
>I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too.
That's interesting, and made me realise it probably has to do with the information density of an image, and how that means it can easily supersede text. You can spread around a copypasta, but it's nowhere near as immediate in effect as an image. No images on a site means it demands a different kind of attention, and I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted to /lit/, but it seemed dead on arrival.
That said, no images means you're missing out on a really information-dense medium. It's part of why I think /mu/ worked for so long: album art is most often a very permanent and representative image associated with the album itself, more so than say a book cover. Some /mu/core album could get in your head before you even listen to it because you'd already seen it a million times.
I can imagine a hybrid solution where image uploads are almost entirely separate from primary discourse, where images are submitted to a queue similar to what >>7955 says, but the post would go through before, and irrespective of, the image approval; a post could reference an image with say an embed, but would exist independently. Approved images are then permanently hosted (maybe that's a little onerous) and can be referenced by users. But this is me bullshitting, not really suggesting it.
I don't think admin wants queues because it increases his workload by a hundred. And he already has a job and life outside of the internet (somehow). The spam only started when this place got advertisement from imageboard circles and other second-hand chan backwash like Kiwifarms -- for a full year and a half or so it was just folks from reddit and was totally fine and even rather active.
Anonymous (Admin) :
311 days ago :
No.7983
>>8071
>>7983
Looks like a certain admin lurks our little corner of the web and got some inspiration...
Game plan is to implement local AI first-stage filtering of posts for spam (and worse), with manual post approval. Should not make too much of a difference for you guys.
Anonymous :
310 days ago :
No.7990
>>8085
>>7970
>I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted
Share. I don't care how doomed you think it is, that still sounds better.
>>7990
>The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies
You'd have to be specific about what you mean by long and boring. It may just be that you're one of the externality types I'm talking about. Or it could just be that externality plus selection bias, because there are plenty of people capable of a text only community. I was there. I saw it. It disappeared when iPhones and Facebook brought the dregs in and then a billion or two third worlders logged on as well, which was just too much for internet culture to acclimate in such a short amount of time.
>>7968
>>7954
>I also believe in the dream of micro-scale communities but we are finding out together the hard way why that has fallen by the wayside.
So do I. I do think the web was better when it was more text than images though. Imageboards like this are quaint and nostalgic now but were once the cutting edge of rotting the internet. I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too. Lately, I've been hanging out on parts of the internet that are not the web. It's better, but there's literally nothing that can be done about the externality of 99.9% of people using the internet in the decadent fashion they have been for the past couple decades. If you opt out of the derangement machine and everyone else opts in, you still have to deal with crazy people all the time. It's just the crazy people become society rather than a mere subset that uses the derangement machine.
The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies. Difficult to get back what we have lost
Anonymous :
302 days ago :
No.8071
>>8072
>>8071
if he steals my idea i'm gonna sue him for his millions
>>7983
Game plan is to implement local AI first-stage filtering of posts for spam (and worse), with manual post approval. Should not make too much of a difference for you guys.
Looks like a certain admin lurks our little corner of the web and got some inspiration...
Anonymous :
300 days ago :
No.8085
>>8099
>>8085
>Share. I don't care how doomed you think it is, that still sounds better.
not that anon, but there is bluedwarf dot top. It's a forum with no images permitted. There is a tiny userbase and not very interesting posts.
>>7970
>>7968
>I remember the day some dipshit added an image thread to my favorite forum and it essentially made the new post notification for the general forum useless. Posting quality declined a lot too.
That's interesting, and made me realise it probably has to do with the information density of an image, and how that means it can easily supersede text. You can spread around a copypasta, but it's nowhere near as immediate in effect as an image. No images on a site means it demands a different kind of attention, and I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted to /lit/, but it seemed dead on arrival.
That said, no images means you're missing out on a really information-dense medium. It's part of why I think /mu/ worked for so long: album art is most often a very permanent and representative image associated with the album itself, more so than say a book cover. Some /mu/core album could get in your head before you even listen to it because you'd already seen it a million times.
I can imagine a hybrid solution where image uploads are almost entirely separate from primary discourse, where images are submitted to a queue similar to what >>7955 says, but the post would go through before, and irrespective of, the image approval; a post could reference an image with say an embed, but would exist independently. Approved images are then permanently hosted (maybe that's a little onerous) and can be referenced by users. But this is me bullshitting, not really suggesting it.
>I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted
Share. I don't care how doomed you think it is, that still sounds better.
>>7990>>7968
The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies. Difficult to get back what we have lost
>The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies
You'd have to be specific about what you mean by long and boring. It may just be that you're one of the externality types I'm talking about. Or it could just be that externality plus selection bias, because there are plenty of people capable of a text only community. I was there. I saw it. It disappeared when iPhones and Facebook brought the dregs in and then a billion or two third worlders logged on as well, which was just too much for internet culture to acclimate in such a short amount of time.
>>8085
>>7970
>I know a recent textboard with that kind of intention that was posted
Share. I don't care how doomed you think it is, that still sounds better.
>>7990
>The problem with only text now is that it attracts long boring posters like shit does flies
You'd have to be specific about what you mean by long and boring. It may just be that you're one of the externality types I'm talking about. Or it could just be that externality plus selection bias, because there are plenty of people capable of a text only community. I was there. I saw it. It disappeared when iPhones and Facebook brought the dregs in and then a billion or two third worlders logged on as well, which was just too much for internet culture to acclimate in such a short amount of time.
>Share. I don't care how doomed you think it is, that still sounds better.
not that anon, but there is bluedwarf dot top. It's a forum with no images permitted. There is a tiny userbase and not very interesting posts.
Anonymous :
189 days ago :
No.8675
>>8677
>>8675
i try and keep the codebase relatively minimal so the url matching is just a list of domains in the database which i build into a hashset at runtime and then compare against. i guess i could build one massive regex of all legal domains (incl wildcarding) and use that as the filter but (a) its more complex (b) it could plausibly blow up the performance if the whitelist got large, while a hashset is strictly O(1) lookup
Anonymous :
189 days ago :
No.8677
>>8684
>>8677
I'm not certain on how the hash stuff works, but if it requires exact matches then is there not something you could be doing at the parsing stage? I figure you have to be identifying URLs somehow in the first place to block posts, so maybe a rule could be implemented at that stage to ignore subdomains, or rather not identify subdomains as part of your URL parser or whatever.
>>8679
If it's the same as 4chan's built-in archive, it's not a permanent archive but limited to X posts or days. But I don't know.
>>8675
>>8673
Is that not something that can be easily wildcarded? or filtered around ".bandcamp.com"?
i try and keep the codebase relatively minimal so the url matching is just a list of domains in the database which i build into a hashset at runtime and then compare against. i guess i could build one massive regex of all legal domains (incl wildcarding) and use that as the filter but (a) its more complex (b) it could plausibly blow up the performance if the whitelist got large, while a hashset is strictly O(1) lookup
Anonymous :
188 days ago :
No.8679
>>8684
>>8677
I'm not certain on how the hash stuff works, but if it requires exact matches then is there not something you could be doing at the parsing stage? I figure you have to be identifying URLs somehow in the first place to block posts, so maybe a rule could be implemented at that stage to ignore subdomains, or rather not identify subdomains as part of your URL parser or whatever.
>>8679
If it's the same as 4chan's built-in archive, it's not a permanent archive but limited to X posts or days. But I don't know.
I'm iffy on the archive, I sort of enjoyed the freedom knowing I could shitpost and it wouldn't be saved forever to be dug up in the future. But it's your site so w/e
>>8677
>>8675
i try and keep the codebase relatively minimal so the url matching is just a list of domains in the database which i build into a hashset at runtime and then compare against. i guess i could build one massive regex of all legal domains (incl wildcarding) and use that as the filter but (a) its more complex (b) it could plausibly blow up the performance if the whitelist got large, while a hashset is strictly O(1) lookup
I'm not certain on how the hash stuff works, but if it requires exact matches then is there not something you could be doing at the parsing stage? I figure you have to be identifying URLs somehow in the first place to block posts, so maybe a rule could be implemented at that stage to ignore subdomains, or rather not identify subdomains as part of your URL parser or whatever.
>>8679I'm iffy on the archive, I sort of enjoyed the freedom knowing I could shitpost and it wouldn't be saved forever to be dug up in the future. But it's your site so w/e
If it's the same as 4chan's built-in archive, it's not a permanent archive but limited to X posts or days. But I don't know.
Anonymous :
188 days ago :
No.8691
>>8694
>>8691
the thread was pushed to the archive because there was a new thread in the mod queue, which i deleted, so it got restored to the catalog
Archive is empty now when it previously held a single thread. Did the thread age out or something? Are there limits to the archive?
Anonymous :
188 days ago :
No.8694
>>8695
>>8694
Was it spam or are you actually starting to do some sort of intentional curation?
>>8691
Archive is empty now when it previously held a single thread. Did the thread age out or something? Are there limits to the archive?
the thread was pushed to the archive because there was a new thread in the mod queue, which i deleted, so it got restored to the catalog
Anonymous :
184 days ago :
No.8743
>>8744
>>8743
IIRC there's a technical reason why it's tricky or maybe impossible for multipart form upload. But also I think they're clutter and not very useful.
Admin: >>8526
Is there a specific reason why original filenames for uploads aren't shown in posts? It's very useful in the typical imageboard format for image sources.
? I'm wondering about filenames again.
Anonymous :
184 days ago :
No.8744
>>8745
>>8744
It came back to mind specifically because I was reverse-searching a photo someone posted here, which led me to its entry on Wikimedia Commons, where all of the images generally have semantic filenames that make them easy to track down. If the filename had been preserved, there's a chance I could have just used that to find it, which is relevant as reverse image searching becomes increasingly shitty. They're especially useful for any explicitly named image as well, like works of art.
>clutter
Even if it were only included in the filename it'd still be useful; that'd show up on hover or in new tabs, so no new UI element.
>>8744
>>8743
IIRC there's a technical reason why it's tricky or maybe impossible for multipart form upload. But also I think they're clutter and not very useful.
It came back to mind specifically because I was reverse-searching a photo someone posted here, which led me to its entry on Wikimedia Commons, where all of the images generally have semantic filenames that make them easy to track down. If the filename had been preserved, there's a chance I could have just used that to find it, which is relevant as reverse image searching becomes increasingly shitty. They're especially useful for any explicitly named image as well, like works of art.
>clutter
Even if it were only included in the filename it'd still be useful; that'd show up on hover or in new tabs, so no new UI element.
Oh right, thanks
Anonymous :
149 days ago :
No.9396
>>9397
>>9396
Realised Nathan Young was a contributor in the first issue, and that I'd seen some of his stuff on /lit/, so that makes a little more sense why things seemed familiar.
>>9399>>9397
>>9396
Oh that's interesting. That post on /lit/ is AI (or at least the picture is), I can tell by the pixels (for real: just check the shape of the X of the Ventoux pic : /boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/25225483 compare here ventouxmag.substack.com/p/issue1). Although why is the X the only letter affected?
It's a call for paper for issue 2 then 3. It is probably AI.
>>9402>>9396
nothing to do with me
Saw this on /lit/ and found it odd that it wasn't linking to the Ventoux Substack or any other pieces, plus that a post wasn't made about it here. What's up with this?
The title of another piece on that blog also seems like something I'd seen recently, though I can't place where.
Anonymous :
149 days ago :
No.9397
>>9399
>>9397
>>9396
Oh that's interesting. That post on /lit/ is AI (or at least the picture is), I can tell by the pixels (for real: just check the shape of the X of the Ventoux pic : /boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/25225483 compare here ventouxmag.substack.com/p/issue1). Although why is the X the only letter affected?
It's a call for paper for issue 2 then 3. It is probably AI.
>>9396
Saw this on /lit/ and found it odd that it wasn't linking to the Ventoux Substack or any other pieces, plus that a post wasn't made about it here. What's up with this?
The title of another piece on that blog also seems like something I'd seen recently, though I can't place where.
Realised Nathan Young was a contributor in the first issue, and that I'd seen some of his stuff on /lit/, so that makes a little more sense why things seemed familiar.
Wow we have been absolutely BTFO that Ventoux was posted first on /lit/ AND not even mentioned here. This place must be a sheer embarrassment to Admin - not surprising in the least considering the quality posts here. I'm reminded when the admin of Rateyourmusic made the forums behind a login wall to hide his shame at how shit they were
Anonymous :
149 days ago :
No.9399
>>9406
>>9399
The linked Substack seems to be real, since it's linked from Nathan Young's personal site (mitka.net), which has existed for quite a while. Whether the OP is Nathan is up in the air, but it seems unlikely. I wouldn't think his writing is AI either since he's been at it for a while (4+ years) and seems earnest.
It's otherwise (almost) just a copy-paste of the last Ventoux OP on /lit/. Odds are whoever posted it was waiting for it to come up here too.
>>9397
>>9396
Realised Nathan Young was a contributor in the first issue, and that I'd seen some of his stuff on /lit/, so that makes a little more sense why things seemed familiar.
>>9396Saw this on /lit/ and found it odd that it wasn't linking to the Ventoux Substack or any other pieces, plus that a post wasn't made about it here. What's up with this?
The title of another piece on that blog also seems like something I'd seen recently, though I can't place where.
Oh that's interesting. That post on /lit/ is AI (or at least the picture is), I can tell by the pixels (for real: just check the shape of the X of the Ventoux pic : /boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/25225483 compare here ventouxmag.substack.com/p/issue1). Although why is the X the only letter affected?
It's a call for paper for issue 2 then 3. It is probably AI.
Oof, I have been duped. I wonder if it's that ChatGPT guy trying to make a point.
>>9398
Wow we have been absolutely BTFO that Ventoux was posted first on /lit/ AND not even mentioned here. This place must be a sheer embarrassment to Admin - not surprising in the least considering the quality posts here. I'm reminded when the admin of Rateyourmusic made the forums behind a login wall to hide his shame at how shit they were
You were very ready to be outraged mate
>>9396
Saw this on /lit/ and found it odd that it wasn't linking to the Ventoux Substack or any other pieces, plus that a post wasn't made about it here. What's up with this?
The title of another piece on that blog also seems like something I'd seen recently, though I can't place where.
nothing to do with me
Anonymous :
149 days ago :
No.9406
>>9407
>>9406
There might not even be that much intention behind the post. It could just be a rehash of /lit/ posts. I'm sure Nathan Young's substack has been posted in threads associated with Ventoux.
>>9399
>>9397
>>9396
Oh that's interesting. That post on /lit/ is AI (or at least the picture is), I can tell by the pixels (for real: just check the shape of the X of the Ventoux pic : /boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/25225483 compare here ventouxmag.substack.com/p/issue1). Although why is the X the only letter affected?
It's a call for paper for issue 2 then 3. It is probably AI.
The linked Substack seems to be real, since it's linked from Nathan Young's personal site (mitka.net), which has existed for quite a while. Whether the OP is Nathan is up in the air, but it seems unlikely. I wouldn't think his writing is AI either since he's been at it for a while (4+ years) and seems earnest.
It's otherwise (almost) just a copy-paste of the last Ventoux OP on /lit/. Odds are whoever posted it was waiting for it to come up here too.
Anonymous :
149 days ago :
No.9407
>>9411
>>9407
His Substack has only been posted once on /lit/, a couple months ago, around the same time as his current site (with the older one being jerdarious.org).
>>9406
>>9399
The linked Substack seems to be real, since it's linked from Nathan Young's personal site (mitka.net), which has existed for quite a while. Whether the OP is Nathan is up in the air, but it seems unlikely. I wouldn't think his writing is AI either since he's been at it for a while (4+ years) and seems earnest.
It's otherwise (almost) just a copy-paste of the last Ventoux OP on /lit/. Odds are whoever posted it was waiting for it to come up here too.
There might not even be that much intention behind the post. It could just be a rehash of /lit/ posts. I'm sure Nathan Young's substack has been posted in threads associated with Ventoux.
>>9407
>>9406
There might not even be that much intention behind the post. It could just be a rehash of /lit/ posts. I'm sure Nathan Young's substack has been posted in threads associated with Ventoux.
His Substack has only been posted once on /lit/, a couple months ago, around the same time as his current site (with the older one being jerdarious.org).
>>9887
Reply preview from a post header shows all the text in bold. Doesn't do this if you look at the inverse preview---the quote itself in a post. The first is also in a serif font, and the second sans.
which browser is this?
>using winblows
Anonymous :
123 days ago :
No.10081
>>10085
>>10081
I will have think about this and make some changes next time I update the site. Thanks for the suggestions.
The URL filter seems to block shortened youtu.be links but not their full youtube counterparts. Any chance you could add more detailed error messages? or details on post limits somewhere on the site? I couldn't figure out if the issue was the links, the file size, or the character count without re-editing and trying to post it.
>>10081
The URL filter seems to block shortened youtu.be links but not their full youtube counterparts. Any chance you could add more detailed error messages? or details on post limits somewhere on the site? I couldn't figure out if the issue was the links, the file size, or the character count without re-editing and trying to post it.
I will have think about this and make some changes next time I update the site. Thanks for the suggestions.
Bump but also thinking about URL whitelisting again.
Noticed that the Ventoux Substack link up above worked. Do all Substack subdomains work, or is Ventoux's specifically whitelisted?
>test
dummy.substack.com
Nice.
Anonymous (Admin) :
94 days ago :
No.10611
>>10613
>>10611
I started to figure once I saw they weren't clickable. Damn. Useful to know anyway, so thanks.
>>10608
Alright, is Bandcamp still not allowed?
>test
ablenoise.bandcamp.com
basically, whisper it, but you can post any link without https:// at the start it just won't go blue. the whitelisting is just for blue links.
bump
Anonymous :
37 days ago :
No.11529
>>11530
>>11529
I deliberately never did because I feel like if a thread is worth replying to it's worth bumping.
>>11531>>11529
The site's strict minimalism is so refreshing and makes using /pt/ a joy even if/when the users themselves aren't up to par. It really does not need any modifications to user function, of course if there is an issue with the engine or security or whatnot that can be updated. Reminds me of Suckless stuff if you're into that sort of thing
How likely is it you add a way to sage threads?
>>11529
How likely is it you add a way to sage threads?
The site's strict minimalism is so refreshing and makes using /pt/ a joy even if/when the users themselves aren't up to par. It really does not need any modifications to user function, of course if there is an issue with the engine or security or whatnot that can be updated. Reminds me of Suckless stuff if you're into that sort of thing
Anonymous :
36 days ago :
No.11532
>>11533
>>11532
You can customize site CSS with browser extensions like uBlock or Greasemonkey as well
>>11563>>11532
Try now, remember to clear your css cache with ctrl-f5 or equivalent. not a very exciting colour scheme I nicked it all from Dracula if anyone wants to suggest some nicer colours be my guest.
Please add a dark mode. You can do it purely in CSS (I understand you don't like Javascript--me neither)
>>11532
Please add a dark mode. You can do it purely in CSS (I understand you don't like Javascript--me neither)
Try now, remember to clear your css cache with ctrl-f5 or equivalent. not a very exciting colour scheme I nicked it all from Dracula if anyone wants to suggest some nicer colours be my guest.
Anonymous :
34 days ago :
No.11564
>>11565
>>11564
ctrl-f5, anon
or if it's gone dark for you but you wanted it to be light it's probably because you have your browser set up to ask for dark mode, even though most sites don't bother respecting this (including /pt/ until about ten minutes ago). you can change back to light in your browser settings.
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what happened to pettchnenene
Anonymous :
34 days ago :
No.11565
>>11566
>>11565
I have dark mode enabled on the browser level but for some reason preferred /pt/'s light appearance. I guess I will haev to get used to it
>>11564
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what happened to pettchnenene
ctrl-f5, anon
or if it's gone dark for you but you wanted it to be light it's probably because you have your browser set up to ask for dark mode, even though most sites don't bother respecting this (including /pt/ until about ten minutes ago). you can change back to light in your browser settings.
Anonymous :
34 days ago :
No.11566
>>11567
>>11566
there is a good chance this is the only site you use that actually respects the browser preference, it might make sense to just switch back to light. Or else I think there are browser extensions that allow you to set per-site preferences.
>>11565
>>11564
ctrl-f5, anon
or if it's gone dark for you but you wanted it to be light it's probably because you have your browser set up to ask for dark mode, even though most sites don't bother respecting this (including /pt/ until about ten minutes ago). you can change back to light in your browser settings.
I have dark mode enabled on the browser level but for some reason preferred /pt/'s light appearance. I guess I will haev to get used to it
>>11566
>>11565
I have dark mode enabled on the browser level but for some reason preferred /pt/'s light appearance. I guess I will haev to get used to it
there is a good chance this is the only site you use that actually respects the browser preference, it might make sense to just switch back to light. Or else I think there are browser extensions that allow you to set per-site preferences.
Anonymous :
32 days ago :
No.11609
>>11611
>>11609
Can't be done elegantly without JavaScript, sorry.
Please add something that puts the post # of the post you are replying to automatically when you click on said post number when writing your reply (my explanation is cumbersome but I hope you understand what I mean). I’ve mistyped and forgotten the “>>” more times than I’d like
>>11609
Please add something that puts the post # of the post you are replying to automatically when you click on said post number when writing your reply (my explanation is cumbersome but I hope you understand what I mean). I’ve mistyped and forgotten the “>>” more times than I’d like
Can't be done elegantly without JavaScript, sorry.
Huh. I never had to trust this site on NoScript. Good for you, genuinely.
Can we please have a space after the '.' in, e.g., 'No.12345'? The lack of a space is German. Even better would be the numero sign: №.
Or Roman numerals. MMMMMMMMMMMMCCCXLV, MMMMMMMMMMMMCCCXLVI, and so on.
Anonymous :
30 days ago :
No.11695
>>11698
>>11695
With serverside HTML templates anything is possible without js
>>11742>>11695
If the data about bump order/last reply etc was exposed somehow on the catalog (doesn't even need to be visible text) then a userscript could rearrange the page on the fly with the given information. Someone would have to write it though.
>>11791>>11695
Sorry, I don't intend to add a feature to change the ordering, it would not fit with the site ethos.
>>11792>>11695
I don't see that another board would achieve anything. There's not really enough activity even just on this one.
Oh shit I didn't realise that you also maintain plainchant. Nice work.
Would you consider different filtering modes? eg bump order/ last reply/ most replies. Is that even possible without js?
Also do you think adding another board would increase or decrease the quality of the site
>>11695
Oh shit I didn't realise that you also maintain plainchant. Nice work.
Would you consider different filtering modes? eg bump order/ last reply/ most replies. Is that even possible without js?
Also do you think adding another board would increase or decrease the quality of the site
With serverside HTML templates anything is possible without js
>>11695
Oh shit I didn't realise that you also maintain plainchant. Nice work.
Would you consider different filtering modes? eg bump order/ last reply/ most replies. Is that even possible without js?
Also do you think adding another board would increase or decrease the quality of the site
If the data about bump order/last reply etc was exposed somehow on the catalog (doesn't even need to be visible text) then a userscript could rearrange the page on the fly with the given information. Someone would have to write it though.
>AppLEL
I’m using iOS 15.8.8. Old, I know, but it’s the only phone I’ve got. I haven’t had the problem on desktop, it’s only on mobile.
> refreshed your stylesheet cache
I’m not sure how but if this would be achieved by clearing Safari’s entire cache, I’ve done that several times to no effect.
>>11788
I’m using iOS 15.8.8. Old, I know, but it’s the only phone I’ve got. I haven’t had the problem on desktop, it’s only on mobile.
> refreshed your stylesheet cache
I’m not sure how but if this would be achieved by clearing Safari’s entire cache, I’ve done that several times to no effect.
I expect it to work properly now.
>>11695
Oh shit I didn't realise that you also maintain plainchant. Nice work.
Would you consider different filtering modes? eg bump order/ last reply/ most replies. Is that even possible without js?
Also do you think adding another board would increase or decrease the quality of the site
Sorry, I don't intend to add a feature to change the ordering, it would not fit with the site ethos.
>>11695
Oh shit I didn't realise that you also maintain plainchant. Nice work.
Would you consider different filtering modes? eg bump order/ last reply/ most replies. Is that even possible without js?
Also do you think adding another board would increase or decrease the quality of the site
I don't see that another board would achieve anything. There's not really enough activity even just on this one.
Anonymous :
17 days ago :
No.11914
>>11922
>>11914
Honestly only 1 in 20 threads fails to be approved and it's usually just someone spamming FAGGOT in all caps or something. I could, and sometimes consider doing more curation, but it feels out of step with the site ethos and more to the point the post volume isn't really there to be selective.
How are you dealing with scrapers and spam on this site? I know you manually approve opening posts, but I haven’t received any kind of Cloudflare wall since I started browsing this year. Is the site just small enough that it isn’t on anybody’s radar yet?
Please don’t stop curating threads, I much prefer reading over a smaller amount of quality content compared with the signal-to-noise ratio you would find on Reddit or 4chan.
>>11914
How are you dealing with scrapers and spam on this site? I know you manually approve opening posts, but I haven’t received any kind of Cloudflare wall since I started browsing this year. Is the site just small enough that it isn’t on anybody’s radar yet?
Please don’t stop curating threads, I much prefer reading over a smaller amount of quality content compared with the signal-to-noise ratio you would find on Reddit or 4chan.
Honestly only 1 in 20 threads fails to be approved and it's usually just someone spamming FAGGOT in all caps or something. I could, and sometimes consider doing more curation, but it feels out of step with the site ethos and more to the point the post volume isn't really there to be selective.
>>11922
>>11914
Honestly only 1 in 20 threads fails to be approved and it's usually just someone spamming FAGGOT in all caps or something. I could, and sometimes consider doing more curation, but it feels out of step with the site ethos and more to the point the post volume isn't really there to be selective.
Ban the Americans 🙏🙏🙏
Yanks are spiritually nonce! Tossers the lot
Anonymous :
17 days ago :
No.11938
>>12014
>>11938
I know how to fix it, basically the file store doesn't retain the file extensions or MIME types of the files it stores after they've been uploaded, then when it serves them back to the browser it just returns them without an extension and with "Content-Type: image" - a more correct Content-Type would be "image/jpeg" or "image/png" or whatever.
Because it sets the Content-Disposition to "inline" most browsers don't mind displaying the image anyway but because Safari has to be special it ignores that header and does its own logic based on Content-Type and apparently when it just sees "image" it decides to download rather than display.
This is definitely fixable and I will try and remember to do it at some point.
>>12202>>11938
i sometimes get that when clicking on reddit post links on google in safari
When I click on an image on iOS mobile (I’m the same guy from before) I get the option to download the photo rather than viewing it. Is there any fix for this?
Anonymous (Admin) :
14 days ago :
No.12014
>>12038
>>12014
A rite of passage for every admin-- fixing things for Apple users
>>11938
When I click on an image on iOS mobile (I’m the same guy from before) I get the option to download the photo rather than viewing it. Is there any fix for this?
I know how to fix it, basically the file store doesn't retain the file extensions or MIME types of the files it stores after they've been uploaded, then when it serves them back to the browser it just returns them without an extension and with "Content-Type: image" - a more correct Content-Type would be "image/jpeg" or "image/png" or whatever.
Because it sets the Content-Disposition to "inline" most browsers don't mind displaying the image anyway but because Safari has to be special it ignores that header and does its own logic based on Content-Type and apparently when it just sees "image" it decides to download rather than display.
This is definitely fixable and I will try and remember to do it at some point.
>>12014
>>11938
I know how to fix it, basically the file store doesn't retain the file extensions or MIME types of the files it stores after they've been uploaded, then when it serves them back to the browser it just returns them without an extension and with "Content-Type: image" - a more correct Content-Type would be "image/jpeg" or "image/png" or whatever.
Because it sets the Content-Disposition to "inline" most browsers don't mind displaying the image anyway but because Safari has to be special it ignores that header and does its own logic based on Content-Type and apparently when it just sees "image" it decides to download rather than display.
This is definitely fixable and I will try and remember to do it at some point.
A rite of passage for every admin-- fixing things for Apple users
Anonymous :
4 days ago :
No.12400
>>12412
>>12400
measuring traffic volume is hard because of the number of scraper bots on the web but there has been a definite uptick in post volume recently which is nice to see. thank you for contributing to the board!
When I got here a month ago most of the threads were months-old. I’ve personally posted about 10 threads since I started, all of which are still active. I’ve been noticing it feels like more people are commenting; has traffic / post volume been increasing?
Anonymous (Admin) :
4 days ago :
No.12412
>>12433
>>12412
Do you have a strategy for balancing marketing and gatekeeping? We obviously want this place to he more active, but not so much you get a regression toward the mean from normies infesting the place.
>>12400
When I got here a month ago most of the threads were months-old. I’ve personally posted about 10 threads since I started, all of which are still active. I’ve been noticing it feels like more people are commenting; has traffic / post volume been increasing?
measuring traffic volume is hard because of the number of scraper bots on the web but there has been a definite uptick in post volume recently which is nice to see. thank you for contributing to the board!
Anonymous :
3 days ago :
No.12433
>>12434
>>12433
it's something I think a lot about but I don't have a good strategy yet other than doing a bit more active moderation when it comes to selecting which threads get approved (I already do this a little bit in that I indiscriminately delete anime). At this point I estimate the board could still grow about 10x in volume without this being a major problem... I hope that if and when we get to a larger size, the committed userbase will help to police the vibes. I made this analogy before and got mocked a bit for it but my model for this is a good pub, where if people are acting out they will get put in their place by the regulars before the bartender has to lift a finger in many instances. I think the site has been quite good recently so I have increasing faith in this strategy working at least up to a point. Having said that it would be nice if we could have some more book reviews and a bit less discussion about reddit, at one point last week it started to feel like a meta board :^p
>>12412
>>12400
measuring traffic volume is hard because of the number of scraper bots on the web but there has been a definite uptick in post volume recently which is nice to see. thank you for contributing to the board!
Do you have a strategy for balancing marketing and gatekeeping? We obviously want this place to he more active, but not so much you get a regression toward the mean from normies infesting the place.
>>12433
>>12412
Do you have a strategy for balancing marketing and gatekeeping? We obviously want this place to he more active, but not so much you get a regression toward the mean from normies infesting the place.
it's something I think a lot about but I don't have a good strategy yet other than doing a bit more active moderation when it comes to selecting which threads get approved (I already do this a little bit in that I indiscriminately delete anime). At this point I estimate the board could still grow about 10x in volume without this being a major problem... I hope that if and when we get to a larger size, the committed userbase will help to police the vibes. I made this analogy before and got mocked a bit for it but my model for this is a good pub, where if people are acting out they will get put in their place by the regulars before the bartender has to lift a finger in many instances. I think the site has been quite good recently so I have increasing faith in this strategy working at least up to a point. Having said that it would be nice if we could have some more book reviews and a bit less discussion about reddit, at one point last week it started to feel like a meta board :^p
> at one point last week it started to feel like a meta board
Those were all me and I stand by them.
The quality of my contributions is in the gutter so take this with a grain of salt, but the directionality of this board is not super important to me. I think the userbase is a certain cross-section of kinda intelligent internet people that are interesting to talk to. I want to read what they have to say about anime and reddit as much as I want to read their Paradise Lost review. More, actually.
If the userbase gets bad there's no amount of pruning that will help. Interesting people make any topic interesting while normies have the effect of glyphosate DDT anthrax on anything they touch. Not that I think there's any risk of an influx
Anonymous :
3 days ago :
No.12455
>>12466
>>12455
You can hover over the 'x hours ago' at least on desktop to have the exact timestamp.
>>12477>>12455
I don't have any analytics, but I do some rough maths and from what I can tell we average around 30 posts a day at the moment (somewhat higher the last few days).
Do you happen to have any analytics that we could use to visualize post count? e.g. this thread was posted a year ago and is 6308. My first post was about a month ago and was around 11600. And now we’re around 12500.
Also: Could you give timestamps instead of “xyz days ago”? I suspect if I hover on desktop it would show up but on mobile nothing does. I’m actually surprised “xyz days ago” works without Javascript compared to just posting a timestamp that never changes.
>>12455
Do you happen to have any analytics that we could use to visualize post count? e.g. this thread was posted a year ago and is 6308. My first post was about a month ago and was around 11600. And now we’re around 12500.
Also: Could you give timestamps instead of “xyz days ago”? I suspect if I hover on desktop it would show up but on mobile nothing does. I’m actually surprised “xyz days ago” works without Javascript compared to just posting a timestamp that never changes.
You can hover over the 'x hours ago' at least on desktop to have the exact timestamp.
>>12455
Do you happen to have any analytics that we could use to visualize post count? e.g. this thread was posted a year ago and is 6308. My first post was about a month ago and was around 11600. And now we’re around 12500.
Also: Could you give timestamps instead of “xyz days ago”? I suspect if I hover on desktop it would show up but on mobile nothing does. I’m actually surprised “xyz days ago” works without Javascript compared to just posting a timestamp that never changes.
I don't have any analytics, but I do some rough maths and from what I can tell we average around 30 posts a day at the moment (somewhat higher the last few days).
Anonymous :
2 days ago :
No.12542
>>12544
>>12542
you have my sincere thanks
>>12706>>12542
Rightoids are spiritually bleak tbh
This site was in dire straits months ago when it took a sharp turn to the right, thanks to me and my heroically ceaseless whining about Kiwifarmers and rightoids they eventually got bored and left back to where they came from. Did I mention it was thanks to me? You're all welcome.
>>12542
This site was in dire straits months ago when it took a sharp turn to the right, thanks to me and my heroically ceaseless whining about Kiwifarmers and rightoids they eventually got bored and left back to where they came from. Did I mention it was thanks to me? You're all welcome.
you have my sincere thanks
Could we perhaps have another thread where it's just stories that we write? Would be nice to have and would not be out of theme.
Just make the thread yourself anon
Oh yeah shit I'm a dumbass
>>12542
This site was in dire straits months ago when it took a sharp turn to the right, thanks to me and my heroically ceaseless whining about Kiwifarmers and rightoids they eventually got bored and left back to where they came from. Did I mention it was thanks to me? You're all welcome.
Rightoids are spiritually bleak tbh