Forum feature requests and Ideas

[Melooon]

Would it be possible to remove all the "top 10" lists from the stats page?

Wow Iv literally never clicked that stats button before You've discovered a new thing

Id like to maybe hear a bit of feedback on this one from others it's not something Iv ever thought about.

Feel free to start a discussion on it if you like! In the short term you can use an ad-blocker like uBlock to hide those parts of the site if you feel its juts a matter of will power to avoid them; that might help?

[wris]

It's not something I feel super strongly about, but my lizard brain is definitely very susceptible to stuff like retweets, leaderboards, etc. Do I even have value as a person if I can't see people engaging with my content?

I would miss the stats if you took them away, but I shouldn't, and that's the problem.

[Memory]

I suggest changing some of the smiley codes that interfere with commonly used text smileys.
Either that or replacing them with somewhat more sensible smiley choices.

Code

:smile: :wink: :cheesy: :grin: :angry: :notgood: :omg: :cool: :dunno: :tongue: :sad: :evil: :happy: :ha:

are all commonly used as text-based smileys.

These text smileys are part of older internet culture and sometimes there is no better way to express something than using the ASCII shape; they are timeless and universally understandable. Plus, I like the vibe: elaborate text based constructions to make beautiful little one-line faces and text art have a long history and culture.

Even if we keep on replacing these codes with graphical smileys, I think some of them, while good smileys on their own, do not particularly represent the contexts well in which they are used. For example, :​D is playful-cute, not comparable to the more smug-looking , and :​P is normally used for "tongue in cheek" things, not being bratty like .

[Melooon]

So I agree (it was default on the forum when first setup) BUT as far as I know changing emojis now will actually break all old smilies already existing on the forum

HOWEVER there is a vague intention behind it too. Im secretly trying to force people into using nose emotes in order to bring them back to mainstream use >:-) :^]

[DJoftheCoven]

Speaking of emotes, if I may make a humble request... I'd like some more cat emotes. These lil guys are so cute but there's only 2!

[Zusk]

Speaking of emotes, if I may make a humble request... I'd like some more cat emotes. These lil guys are so cute but there's only 2!

More cats, yess

[bythemeadow]

i agree on both emoticon fronts! i like the forum emotes a lot but i would also like the option to add a '/' in the front and back or something to use the original ones as well. and more cats :3

[Melooon]

More cats have been added!

[bythemeadow]

More cats have been added!

THEY ARE SO AWESOME I LOVE THEM !!!! :TnT:

[hAiled_Acorn]

Nsimsun

More boards in the interests category. there are more interests besides video games, music, and passive consumption of media. like reading, for example. reading books.

[Melooon]

like reading, for example. reading books.

Hmm, I was sorta combining that with writing in the "Writers Corner" board, since I assumed most people who were into reading would also be into writing, but point taken!

[Memory]

I second the merge with the writing board. We don't need more fragmentation

[Melooon]

Should we make the Writers Corner also include Manga? Is that an appropriate combination (since they are both books)?

[sig]

Should we make the Writers Corner also include Manga? Is that an appropriate combination (since they are both books)?

To me it makes more sense to combine anime and manga (it goes without saying that there's a huge overlap), but excluding Manga from the writers corner also seems wrong. Then again, spreading out manga discussion over two boards could get confusing...

[SilkSkull]

I'm not sure if you do this already because this is my first year being here but a Christmas theme or maybe community Christmas events like the Halloween page event could be awesome! It feels like a big family on here so I would love to celebrate with you all!