I think things started dwindling a bit after lewd got a Discord instance. A lot of people sorta just started only going there.
clare i like the current iteration of lewd but at the same time i kinda wanna make lewd 4.0 more focused on individual interactions with people.
Assuming there would be a sizable number of people to interact with, what are you envisioning?
malmon
one of my fav features that lewd used to have but was removed due to using discord is the facebook style chat where you could see who is currently online and just start live chatting with them. imo it felt really easy to connect with new members with it.
i think if i was to create another iteration i'd add a live chat to the homepage that'd essentially replace this thread. ik the site has realtime functionality now but i think in a chat format it'd feel more lively.
then as an extension to that i'd wanna add the ability to start live chats with other users/groups of other users. ik discord provides that kind of stuff but not only is discord not for everyone i wanna make it so that people can connect via the site again and having it built into the site opens other options for what i could add to the site.
clare That must not have been something that I ever made much use of, since I can't remember it at all ^_^'
It does sound like that could provide a happy medium between the persistence of a forum, and the interactiveness of a chatroom. Or at the very least a reason to stick around for a bit longer.
malmon Yeah I would love to have something like that.
I hate Discord servers. Maybe I am just getting old but I miss the old forum days.
Shhh I was always more of an IRC person back in the day, but I think a big difference then was that there was no real chat persistance. Of course people would keep chat logs sometimes, but they'd be a rather roundabout way of finding old information. Services like Discord where you can easily find and link/reply to past messages tend to blur the line somewhat, often making forums obsolete, while at the same time being more difficult than forums to keep up with.
With stuff like IRC, forums were still active, as the two sorta went hand-in-hand. IRC for general real-time chit chat, forums for talking about more in-depth stuff.
Shhh Glad to hear it~ I'm about the same, except for the lack of slowing down ^^' Work's much busier than usual, and I only tend to have one day off these days with renovation work.
It's not been the best year, admittedly, but I'll get through it ^_^
I've also been playing around with Stable Diffusion a bit~ It's fun and extremely frustrating.
Has Misaka been wearing the Santa hat all year...? >_<
Merry Christmas, perverts ^_^
