/q/ - arisuchan meta

Add a points system where you can grow a pokemon-style creature by making posts that are cool. I'm not joking, this is a serious suggestion.

>if this is just a re-implementation of the original Arisuchan

we are NEW AND IMPROVED arisuchan so im open to making more changes

>what do you plan on implementing next?

idk, nothing? lol i havent felt the need to add anything else lately

>Please add the option for users to choose to hide posts before this place grows to a point it's overrun with low-effort posters.

ive kinda decided to just delete low-effort or shitposts for the most part, but ill consider adding a post hiding thing, ill look into it sometime soon when i have a minute

if theres stuff that would help the site be more useable etc im open to suggestions, termer recently suggested borders around posts for better layout visibility and a floating reply window in thread-view to up site usability - i recently implemented both

additionally, another user had emailed me having trouble with the post form and i changed that too to make it easier to use / more obvious

so to reiterate - yes im open to ideas

things that fix an issue are more top-priority so let me know if theres any issues youve found obviously

overall, stuff that is niche and doesn't really exist on other imageboards like >>41 suggestion is *perhaps?* interesting but much less likely to happen unless its an extremely good idea

>>42
Fair. Maybe use the thread to post updates and fixes? A place for transparency is good if only to let people know the site is still cared for and not just still running on a laptop in some guy's closet. That's the only other suggestion I'd have for now.

>>43
not a bad idea

i have posted about some site changes ive made in the past, but those posts are scattered across multiple threads

i can understand how seeing regular updates about site maintenance and changes could give users and passers-by a sense that the site is well taken care of

ill think think about how best to approach this - its a bit weird because even if there are no active changes going on the site is still constantly maintained, im not sure things like PHP and OS updates are even worthy of notifying people about?

i will give you an idea of the state of things here for more context -

>this imageboard is running a newer version of vichan than probably *99.99%* of others that run vichan or a fork of it (we are pretty much our own fork now due to all the changes ive made, but our fork is from a much newer version of upstream vichan than others)

>the main web/storage server for the site is automatically backed up once a day and OS/PHP/etc updates are done once a month *at the very least* - i also test all the sites main functions myself after each update/change

>the sites database backend is a highly-available clustered DB that is backed up every minute of every hour of each day (total overkill)

>the site also has ALMOST enterprise-tier caching, SDN, and web application firewall (actual enterprise-tier is way too pricey lol)

>also, every time there is a new post on this site A TEAM OF MODERATORS LOL is automatically sent a notification with a link to the new content in case its something that needs to be deleted

everything here runs on money (and not in a closet)
this sites infrastructure is most likely better than the vast majority of other imageboards (besides huge ones like 4chan etc)

im a professional sysadmin of 10+ years and because of my job im used to doing maintenance in a way that is nearly invisible to end users

any additional infrastructure changes would pretty much be total overkill at this point lol (i am considering maybe another web/storage server for active-passive high availability though)

lastly - the site is probably very close to being "feature complete" so if i did make a dedicated place for change notifications - it probably wouldn't continue being updated beyond a certain point - in the future that could give the impression that maintenance has stopped lmao

an example of this is lainchans "latest news" section - the last post there about maintenence is from 2022 - is the site still maintained or did the admin just stop wanting to notify everyone about normal updates? my assumption is its not maintained - but only because that dedicated place for change notification has not been updated - not sure i want to normalize something that eventually turns into that sort of situation here

something to think on -
>what other metric is an accurate predictor of site maintenance if the site has been feature complete for years?

like i said, i am always open to suggestions

u can hide threads now

the hide/unhide buttons only appear in full-width mode

if youre on a mobile phone or have your browser window too small you wont be able to hide/unhide threads for now

ill play with the CSS to make it look good for mobile eventually

make it so that i can read and reply to threads from irc!!!!

>>42
oh my fucking GOD… I am phapping to this picture of CATGIRL lain on my couch at this very moment.. oh my gahd uhhhhhggggg I'm about to cum uhhhhg

so i was bored and made a bunch of changes to the site to make it MUCH FASTER

the only thing that is close to a breaking change is i heavily modified our vichans image.php so that uploaded image thumbnails are generated as webp

because of that, uploading GIF's now takes longer

but it makes browsing the site faster and it looks like everythings working

the most likely thing to be broken is *possibly* you could attempt to upload an image that does not convert to webm properly (it would most likely be a GIF)

if that happens or anything else seems broken lmk

>>53
webp is cancer bring back git. if you're going to do a speedup with gifs then encode as avif instead, that's webp's successor

the thread hiding JS has been modified to also allow hiding replies

i also added support for hiding posts in thread view and unified the storage for hidden posts across views

you can hide any post anywhere on the site now, and it will remain hidden anywhere else on the site it shows up unless you manually unhide it

i made a bunch of CSS changes recently as well as changes to some JS that has browser TTL set for 30 days (oopsies)

clear your browser cache for the site to see all the changes, otherwise wait 30 days for your browser to fetch the updated resources

added mp4/webm support with inline expanding

also added embedding youtube videos

fixed backlink generation on /all/ overboard

and also fixed an issue with the captcha and quick-reply window where the page would reload if the captcha was activated in fixed post form before floating post form was triggered

uploaded files can now be a maximum of 30MB

>>72
nice