Forum Features and such

Lumeinshin · 2022-11-06T16:15:38+00:00

Hey guys, Ive just about got everything ready so if i shill the site on fedi or you somehow stumble over here, feel free to let me know what you think about...

gingermilk

Lumeinshin
aha, sounds good to me! I am surprised sushichan is still up since the last time I checked (probably a year ago) it had one foot in the grave already. maybe you could also try advertising on lainchan?

I will definitely ~~threaten~~ invite people to join if any of them is interested. with such a small user base made up by fedi users, this site is already going half dead a bit T.T I like the idea of a book club btw

I wish I could provide more suggestions, but I really don't at this point. hopefully we can make this forum more alive.

Lumeinshin

yeah sushichan is very slow but its still chugging along, i try to check it every other month.
I could try lainchan but i havent browsed it much

gingermilk with such a small user base made up by fedi users, this site is already going half dead a bit T.T
😢

I think its okay for now, so long as people pop in on occasion we'll gently nudge activity up. I dont wanna force it too much tho but we'll see. I was hoping to get OAuth working so we could say make it easier for fedi instances we like to login and use it but it wasnt playing ball

gingermilk

Lumeinshin it might be hard to attract fedi users. we already have fedi and matrix where most people are active on, so they don't really need a third platform to communicate except those who are forum lovers.

yeah I guess we will just wait and see lol

Lumeinshin

gingermilk
thats true yeah. I think there is room for some more of our fedi friends to enjoy a forum but people going out of their way to join at the start is tougher. I think part of its my fault because im just winging it 😆

I'll likely buy some ads going into december and i'll look into it soon to get ready for it. it would be nice to have the opportunity to meet some new people

friffri

Hey, just got here from lainchan. Cool website, I read what you guys had in mind and I like it a lot.

By the way, I think the change password button doesn't work? I made an account before this one but I fucked up writing the password, I wanted to change it but the email never came so I made another account.

It might be because I used a temp email though

Lumeinshin

friffri
oh no! 😅
thats entirely my bad, i'd forgot to sort out the email, i'm used to just manually resetting user passwords from my time on fedi loool
🤫 i'll sort that out soon™️
apologies

happy to have you though! i hope you enjoy your time

dog

Lumeinshin

How much did you spend on ads btw?
Are you happy with the impressions / cent value you are getting or not really??

dog

Hello from 4chan!

I would say ads are worthless for the most part… but then again I am here…

I block ads on desktop, and I would think the vast majority of 4chan users block ads as well. Even if the ads are not malicious, most of them are for crypto rugpull projects or discord groups that I have no interest in seeing.

Ratface

dog Yeah, that's true. On the other hand if it's possible to buy ads for only certain boards it could be useful, depending on the demographics and if you use a good banner (maybe with literally 'hobby/casual/social forum' or something like that written on it). I could see people from boards that are less shitposty and more on topic like /ck/ /an/ and /out/ be more receptive to it, for example, because more people come there for actual discussion.

Lumeinshin

Ratface
you can target ads for boards and regions.
I casted a fairly wide net but I didnt hit every board or region

dog
I spent a tad more than i probably needed to lol, I had just got paid 😆
ads are really cheap. the way it works is via bids, so you only have to pay like 0.05 per 1k views, depending on where on the site
im pretty happy with impressions and signups

histoire

Lumeinshin

I need to go look and see if I can see one

jimster

Some way to show what people are replying to without clicking on the link would be nice, since people don't seem to use the quotes feature. Like if you hover over the replied to link and it showed a preview or something. Yeah it looks cleaner this way without inline quoting everything but it's kinda hard to follow. Idk if this is even possible with the software you're using just a suggestion if you can :P

Lumeinshin

jimster
are you phoneposting?
On desktop you can hover over the name to see the post if its out of view, or it will pulse if its on the page
im not sure about mobile

jimster

BTW guys if you want to use a text emoticon instead of emotes you can put a backslash before it like this "\:P"

gingermilk

Lumeinshin Yeah I can confirm that you can see the post if you click on the name

jimster

Oh it wasn't working on qutebrowser but it does work on Firefox

am1m1r

I just bookmarked this forum, but there's no pretty icon... only a gray circle. Hopefully you'll pick a sheep, so I can place it next to my lolcowfarm bookmark.

Lumeinshin

am1m1r
I had thought I'd set one, I did have to change some stuff to make it a PWA, I'll have a looksie again later.
I'll have to commission something proper down the road

Lumeinshin

Lumeinshin
I have set the same sheep as the favicon that is the PWA icon.
I'll eventually get something properly done by an artist later down the line

am1m1r

Lumeinshin I love the icon!

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