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DMs have been reworked into a live chat in the bottom right corner of your screen.

we had something similar aaaages ago back on MyBB, and i loved being able to instantly welcome new members and start chatting. not really sure why i removed it tbh.

the thread list has also been redesigned. it now shows an avatar for the person that last replied instead of whoever posted the thread

ty to @COUPLED & @malmon for the suggestions

more coming soon :>

have any feedback or ideas? let me know!

clare stickied the discussion .

Maybe the site needs something to force a refresh when any significant changes have been made. Like none of this stuff showed up for me until I hit F5, whereas normally I'd click on the banner.

    clare unstickied the discussion .

    there is a new anime section (powered by myanimelist).

    with it you can track anime (or sync it from another service: MAL, kitsu, or anilist), or start discussions that are linked to the anime/or individual epsiodes.

    you can now set up desktop notifications (under settings), these can be turned on for either new DMs or new notifications.

    there's a few background changes that are less noticeable:

    • the site will now detect when you're on an older version of the CSS or JS and refresh accordingly
    • categories page now has some styling, it was a mess before
    • some seo stuff
    • some server settings changed so that assets load quicker.
    clare stickied the discussion .

    Oh wow the anime thing is a neat idea! Will have to check it out in more detail tomorrow.

    Can confirm the refresh worked too ^^

      malmon mhm i wanna get people talking about anime again, we used to talk about it sooo much (slamming my head against a wall rn going through hundreds of threads about different anime and linking them to the new system).

        I'm really stupid I can't figure it out on mobile but I'll get on my desktop in a bit and try it out

        Would be really cool if images could be attached without needing to host them elsewhere... Not sure how you could do that without just needing way more storage and bandwidth on the server side, though.

          malmon i could maybe look into cheap offsite storage like s3 or something

              clare As long as it doesn't get out of hand ^^' Maybe it should be limited to like, trusted users? By which I mean those that are obviously not just bots or spammers. Though perhaps just having something like a requirement to set an avatar before you're allowed to post might help.

                  malmon i could maybe make it upload with a file hosting site like catbox, would prob feel no different and then its free and doesn't add any extra workload.

                      clare I think as long as it's not for commercial purposes, and people don't post anything against catbox's rules, that should be fine... Otherwise all the uploaded images might get nuked lol

                        you can now upload images directly to the text editor (hosted with a third party service). drag and drop, paste from clipboard, and clicking the image button all work.

                        the emoji picker has been expanded to include twitch emotes and more emoji.

                        and one thats less visible but old posts have been cleaned up of any garbled text, unsupported bbcode (replaced with new alternatives) or other formatting issues.