~Branding~

>Specific, recognizable color scheme

>unique, recognizable logo

>unique, recognizable symbols/icons

~Advertisement~

>create 88x31 banners

>create header/footer banners

>create deviant art Style stamps

>encourage users to add banner ads to their personal sites to link back

>include a link or banner to divchan in your "signature" on other forums

~Team Work~

>create a form for mod applications

>encourage mods to create discussion posts, interact with new users, and interact with each other's posts

>Communicate activity/post times so there will be more frequent activity on the site through the day/week

Hopefully at least one of these suggestions can help 💓long live divchan

This should help with accidental posting of threads that were intended to be replies.

1. The rule about, "Don't post it here if it goes somewhere else," was taken out, because I think it made people hesitant to post there. I also changed the board heading to reflect that its safe to post whatever you want there.

2. It's not stickied to the top of the start page anymore. I figured it helps if latest posts are always jumping to the top no matter where they are coming from.

Most likely there is going to be a /latest/ soon, which will aggregate all the posts from every board the user is following into one board.

What do you think?

It came to my attention that it was possible to register accounts with names that are difficult to parse and its ambiguous what the message is... if its an Anon, if its an announcement, if its a logged in user.

This forced me to do stricter validation on names. From now on...

Name can only contain letters (uppercase and lowercase) and numbers.

Anyone who doesn't meet this criteria had their name changed. If you don't like what I changed your name to, let me know here and I'll change it to something else.

Sorry about this.

I'm thinking about opening new boards but I want to ask what boards people would actually like to see.

There's a lot of things other people might like that I have no interest in and would never think of... like maybe there could be a fashion board or idk...

What ideas do you have?

I browse the web at night, and I generally use a widescreen monitor. So a dark theme would be nice.

I'm posting this thread without a thumbnail as a reminder: You will be banned if you post NSFW in this thread!

You can discuss NSFW topics, but you cannot post graphic images here.

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...anyway...

I keep wondering when I'm going to open the doors to NSFW boards.

Here's the reason why I'm leaning towards thinking we should have some: Erotic content has always powered the Internet. If I want my site to do well and get more users, it's difficult to ignore the people that NSFW boards could bring. At the same time, people are into a very large range of things and not into other things, and the only way it works is if there is a lot of boards with every option there is.

For example look at the NSFW boards on 4chan. They have very intricate rules and detailed descriptions of what is acceptable in every genre of xxx that is out there. And like.... I am just not that open with my own sexuality personally to be expressive about all these subjects. So I have no idea where to start with adding that.

Like specifically what NSFW board should there be? I have no idea.

I'm thinking that I need a director of NSFW material for the site or something... someone that I can give moderator powers to and let them decide what boards would be beneficial. I would obviously oversee it and make sure only decisions were being made but...

I think its gonna be a situation where there wont be NSFW boards until there is someone, or some group of people, who want to manage it. And keep in mind, I'm not going to give this role out lightly.

I'm just wondering, how should I go about this?

It's mostly there so that I won't accidentally overlook something that got posted, but you can use it too if you want.

Im too lazy to find out myself so you better tell me

Click, it will copy the link to your clipboard. When you share it, it should know which post from the thread to embed. So far it seems to work on Discord but probably will work differently on different apps. In either case, when the user opens the link to the thread, it will scroll to the correct post.

I fixed the issue where hidden threads were showing on catalog view. You still can't hide threads from catalog view but it will at least respect your settings from list view.

https://github.com/divSelector/divchan/commit/a6385f209c760573487ae2f4792cbe5d529eca7d

I wrote a build guide for people who want to contribute to the working on the source code of this site. https://github.com/divSelector/divchan?tab=readme-ov-file#build-guide

Here are some visual aids for Windows users.

Notice here I am right clicking in the folder and selecting, "Open in Terminal"

It was requested on github and I thought it was a good idea.

https://github.com/divSelector/divchan/issues/13

It should be done tonight or tomorrow some time.

I hope you've noticed that I have been building every requested featured btw. So feel free to post others.

This was a feature that was requested on github

https://github.com/divSelector/divchan/issues/12

Feel free to post issues :)

It was getting pretty annoying to have to delete and repost over small typos.

Now you can fix those typos with the edit button.

You still can't edit the images though so if you accidentally post the wrong images you'll still have to use delete for now

:)

yeah can that be a thing or is wave for music in general?

also divchan when I revisit next day:

>"who thaa fck are you"

Pls div vidya board pls I beg

...please report to me which thread you had the problem in.

I believe I have discovered a horrible bug but I have to spend more time studying it before I will have a fix.

I've been noticing that a lot of threads that belong in /meta/ are getting posted to /main/, and I was thinking about why that is. It's most likely because there aren't a lot of links to this board on the site and it may not be incredibly obvious that it's even an option.

The reason I had /meta/ hidden in the first place is I didn't want chatting about the board to clog up the space where content-based threads belong. But I've decided that at least for now, until I find a better way to direct users to this board, I'm just putting it here.

It's not entirely a bad thing to show off that there are early adopters talking about the board.

What do you think?

I just tried to drag and drop random image from web on to the image selection while creating new thread but it opened a new tab instead.

:]

if you are reading this post...

it means the bug that that made posting on this board broken for the last 6 hours is fixed.

It's possible that the rules are too complicated and TLDR for a site that hasn't developed a user base yet.

I'm thinking about switching it up to a very minimalist thing

And rules can be implemented as there is a need for them...

Or should I leave the rules as is because the standards are good?