clare Are you going to continue using Flarum or are you migrating to something else?

I am also very eepy. It has been a long weekend and everything is sore T_T

      malmon
      Crakila

      not really a lot to show visually atm, just am working on a few personal projects using the phoenix framework and need to create a forum component that i can plug into all of them and i think the best way to do that would be to create a forum software for lewd.

      also hope you are able to relax and feel better soon crakila

          malmon because i need a forum component for my other projects and i want it to be nicely integrated with them instead of having a separate platform

            further to that, the pros and cons are:

            pros:

            • can make exactly what is needed
            • easier for me to add new features
            • wont need constant updating
            • once it is working it will just always work
            • it is a module that i actually need, so i am likely to work on it

            cons:

            • effort
            • will take a while to recreate every good feature

              clare I suppose as long as the interface is good, it doesn't matter too much what's on the backend as long as it works. That said, @Backlash and I did have a brief wander through some archived 1lewd, and we kinda miss the old layout~

                  malmon what part of the old layout? the landing page or threads?

                  if you mean the landing page, the way this does it kinda promotes more activity as people can see the most updated content easier.

                  i miss the old forum layouts too but can see why more modern approaches to forums have moved towards the new way.

                      clare I think for me, aside from the nostalgia of web-2.0-style forums, is perhaps the greater information density. With the old forum, I'd argue that it was much easier to see everything Lewd had to offer, neatly categorised. Whereas here, while visually the forum may be more appealing, it feels like all of the threads are just shoved into one bucket, they take up a lot of visual space, and if they're not on the first couple of scrolls, forget about it. Any thread behind the "Load More" button may as well not exist. Sure, we have categories here, but they're more like tags than proper sections.

                      However, if I had to pick only one thing that I'd improve about the current forum, it would be the thread icons. Currently, each thread has the avatar of its OP set as its image. I think it would make the site feel more dynamic if it showed the last poster's avatar instead.

                          clare Oh, and one thing I'd definitely keep is the forum banner stuff, but perhaps make it a bit more open as to who can actually add them to the site, so I'm not just having to pester Steph to add them. Dunno how much work it would be to have something like that added to a mod/admin cp.

                          I really like having the user-submitted banners. It sort of adds to the feeling that the forum itself is a community, rather than just an opaquely-run service.

                            malmon maybe i try modernising the old layout. i think showing off everything that here's good, just it doesn't look great when there's a tonne of categories and half of them are last reply x months ago and that's all you see on first load.

                            maybe i make the categories reorder based on most active to least active. or show the last few threads from each categories activity. i'll have a think and do some research.

                              ignore the design itself, but going to be bringing back an old lewd feature, where the reply system functioned like imageboards - except doing it even better and having each post display the posts that are referencing it

                              still to come is greentext

                              clare I love you. I haven't been on bc i haven't been home and idk the login details for my account haha

                                  COUPLED love you too. and now if you try to do a password reset it'll work now.

                                    think i'll become a zombie if I don't get accepted into school