For issues that require back-end coding are you using one of the various AI coding tools? If not you should. Could make some of these bug fixes a lot easier. Just paste in your current code, describe the bug and ask it the AI to fix it while you puff some of the Halfling's leaf.
1) It's hard for me to recreate this issue on my end. /u/Trucidare has this issue as well. It might end up getting fixed, idk.
Perfect use case for an AI assistant to fix for you.
2) I'd have to play around with the app more to replicate this.
Are you testing one multiple devices and OS versions? I know Samsung offers Device Lab and there are various other services that offer cross device/OS mobile app testing as well. I'm assuming you're already testing in an emulator so just throwing some other testing methods out there in case you haven't given them a shot. If you haven't tested with any such services they could probably be a big help in spotting issues you're having trouble replicating locally.
4) wtf why is the text so big on your device? What device are you using?
Samsung Galaxy Note 8. A pretty old model since I refuse to update to the newer models that lack a headphone jack. (The foldables are tempting but I'm holding out til Samsung solves the ugly screen crease).
5) Yeah this is happening because the text is so big for your device. Would really like to know what device you have. Do you have some kind of accessibility settings that makes text bigger?
It's not the text size. I just set the text to the smallest size my phone allows and you can see in the attached image the formatting still breaks sometimes (and also, confusingly, still doesn't break sometimes). Besides if the formatting is reliant on the font size being medium-small to work that's just setting yourself up for issues when font sizes vary so wildly across mobile devices. Gotta make sure even big ass elderly people fonts don't gunk up the works (as someone who's made government websites where I had to account for the unknown font sizes on unknown screen sizes I know the PITA of this requirement but it's worth it just in terms of bullet-proofing your layout).
6) I think this is an option on reddit. Either way you can just click on the comments button.
This one's a user experience issue. I guarantee it will be a pain point for most new users since clicking a small, unlabeled icon UNDER the link/title they think they're supposed to click is highly unintuitive. Smoothing out such UX pain points will help in acquiring new users and making they stick around.
8) I was going to get rid of the "Loading..." text, it's just for me really.
Just giving that page the dark mode bg color and a centered Mainchan logo would bring it in line with most every major social app's loading splash.
9) Yeah I'll expand on the subchans screen. For now it's pretty basic.
Cool. cool.
10) Suggestions for an "OC" icon?
Best AI suggested idea "Light Bulb: A classic symbol of ideas and creativity, a light bulb can represent innovative thoughts and original concepts." Second best was a writing quill.
11 and 12) Yeah a lot of things are missing. Some on purpose, some I don't know if I'll ever implement in the app. The app wasn't designed to have all the same stuff the website has, it's just supposed to be a convenient way to use mainchan on a mobile device.
In pro-dev speak you've described an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). The least product possible to give a working something to users so you can start generating returns. That's all well and good. I'd advise you to plan on getting all of the features of the website into the app though. Especially the Content Creator Program (CCP) since that it will be a major driver of users and revenue once it's actually rolling. BTW while I'm on the subject you should definitely roll out Reddit-style ad posts ASAP, not big ass images, just regular posts that are slightly highlighted to show they're ads. Y'know tasteful. Not a whole lot of em, just enough to keep the lights on and maybe start funding the CCP.
17) neither does the reddit app
The Reddit app does obey the phone's back button in those instance though, Mainchain app doesn't.
19) I'm not adding mod support at the moment to the app.
I get your logic there. The user ban appeal should definitely be in the app tho.
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That said...
Feature Request: Increase the character limit and include a character count down near the text input box. I had to battle with it to post this and I had no indication why I suddenly couldn't type anything anymore.
Nice. Are you able to run Stable Diffusion locally or do you use a hosted version like something on Huggingface? You mention Automatic1111 so I'm assuming local. Is it the latest version and do you need beefy hardware to handle it?
The show was greenlit with a 5 season mandate. It'd be amazing if it being so horrible leads Amazon to cut their losses and bail on the remaining 3 season commitment on this awful show.
I watched the first episode of season 2 on Prime then hit "thumbs down" to remove it from my recommendations. I'm now one of the people who started but refused to finish the show, a damning metric in streaming that's the main reason shows get cancelled. I'm doing my part!
Getting better though. Gone from top posts getting 2-3 likes to top posts getting 4-8 likes. Soon we'll regularly see double digit likes on posts. Organic growth with basically no ads and no AI bots or CEO's paying for fake engagement (a la Reddit's launch) boosting the numbers. It's kinda kewl.
I was about to go on this whole spiel that becoming legendary seems to only require artists to stay active longer than their peers but then I looked it up and friggin' Papa Roach is still active and they're the opposite of legendary so that ruins that theory.
Reminds me of when I made a German lady friend online a long time ago. We were on the phone and I was trying to think of something German we might have in common and the band Rammstein came to mind. I'd been blasting their song "Bück Dich" that day so I brought it up. Told German gal I loved the song and I'd learned the German lyrics and been singing it all day so much my mother was sick of hearing it at which point she cracked up laughing. When she could breathe again after laughing so hard she told me that "Buck Dich" is an explicit song about a man raping another man. Oof.
All modern web design is soulless. Take it from a web designer who's been in the trenches since the 90's. I watched artistic, innovative design get slowly replaced by the standardized, formulaic, designed-by-engineers boredomscape we see today. I was designing graphics-intense table-based websites before CSS was a thing. There was a whole movement of people who viewed web design as art first and commerce a distant second. But then the engineers and business people came and they needed everything to be standardized and homogenized for maximum interoperability, platform support, and idiot user support. Basically if a 90 year old grandma with bad vision and poor computer literacy couldn't navigate your site like a pro on their first visit using one of those barely functional old-people phones then your design wasn't getting approved.
That's just the front end, on the backend the engineers need to justify their jobs existing and so generate a never ending parade of frameworks designers and devs have to learn (because the executives make them hiring requirements) which are often hostile to design freedom by reinforcing establish homogeneity or "patterns". Then cram all that into executive enforced development frameworks like Scrum or Agile that leave no room for experimentation and you have todays boring, everything looks the same interwebs.
All this is to say that if I really wanted to, and Cicero was down, I could make this site and the app look unique and amazing while still being as functional or moreso than any other social site. However I've had the love of web design beaten TF out of me by living through all those things I just complained about. It'd take a salary at least over 100k to get me to commit to that level of designing again (which is a bit more than mainchan volunteer designer pays haha).
This isn't a chan site, it's a mix of a chan site and a content aggregator site. The retarded love child of 4chan and Reddit. That means greentext posts, text post, news posts, and image/video posts and anything in between.
Besides I know that any video or image I post is something I personally enjoy and want to share with others. That way they can also enjoy it and maybe we can vibe over mutually digging the same thing in the comments (for instance me an /u/ymous a while back finding we liked some of the same artists and genres of music). If I post a meme it was something that made me laugh that I felt someone else here might get a chuckle from. Granted no one has interacted with my Star Trek posts besides /u/Trek and I don't think they post here anymore but that's besides the point.
You want more text posts, make more text posts and make replies to text posts that generate more conversations. Me, I'mma go post another Star Trek article no one's going to comment on...
I wasn't even aware that posts a year old got archived. That is pretty shite. The archive limit should definitely be longer than one year, personally I'd set it at somewhere between 3 to 5 years and that's only if content needs to be archived for some server resource reason, otherwise I'd just keep all content active. Why limit where people can post when you don't have to and you're trying to grow the site? Having a huge percent of site content rendered non-interactive seems very self defeating.
Finally figured out the source of your infinite lolis anon. "Gochūmon wa Usagi desu ka?" or "Is the Order a Rabit?" But besides that, WTF is up with the blue haired girl's right arm? The artist messed up and drew it way too long, it'd have to be coming out the middle of her back to look like that. You got a fetish for deformed lolis anon?
Oh and... YOU WILL NEVER CONQUER THE MIGHTY NECROSOCIALAND!
Niceness. What are the allowed video stats? Just the 10mb size limit? No other restrictions?
For issues that require back-end coding are you using one of the various AI coding tools? If not you should. Could make some of these bug fixes a lot easier. Just paste in your current code, describe the bug and ask it the AI to fix it while you puff some of the Halfling's leaf.
Perfect use case for an AI assistant to fix for you.
Are you testing one multiple devices and OS versions? I know Samsung offers Device Lab and there are various other services that offer cross device/OS mobile app testing as well. I'm assuming you're already testing in an emulator so just throwing some other testing methods out there in case you haven't given them a shot. If you haven't tested with any such services they could probably be a big help in spotting issues you're having trouble replicating locally.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8. A pretty old model since I refuse to update to the newer models that lack a headphone jack. (The foldables are tempting but I'm holding out til Samsung solves the ugly screen crease).
It's not the text size. I just set the text to the smallest size my phone allows and you can see in the attached image the formatting still breaks sometimes (and also, confusingly, still doesn't break sometimes). Besides if the formatting is reliant on the font size being medium-small to work that's just setting yourself up for issues when font sizes vary so wildly across mobile devices. Gotta make sure even big ass elderly people fonts don't gunk up the works (as someone who's made government websites where I had to account for the unknown font sizes on unknown screen sizes I know the PITA of this requirement but it's worth it just in terms of bullet-proofing your layout).
This one's a user experience issue. I guarantee it will be a pain point for most new users since clicking a small, unlabeled icon UNDER the link/title they think they're supposed to click is highly unintuitive. Smoothing out such UX pain points will help in acquiring new users and making they stick around.
Just giving that page the dark mode bg color and a centered Mainchan logo would bring it in line with most every major social app's loading splash.
Cool. cool.
Best AI suggested idea "Light Bulb: A classic symbol of ideas and creativity, a light bulb can represent innovative thoughts and original concepts." Second best was a writing quill.
In pro-dev speak you've described an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). The least product possible to give a working something to users so you can start generating returns. That's all well and good. I'd advise you to plan on getting all of the features of the website into the app though. Especially the Content Creator Program (CCP) since that it will be a major driver of users and revenue once it's actually rolling. BTW while I'm on the subject you should definitely roll out Reddit-style ad posts ASAP, not big ass images, just regular posts that are slightly highlighted to show they're ads. Y'know tasteful. Not a whole lot of em, just enough to keep the lights on and maybe start funding the CCP.
The Reddit app does obey the phone's back button in those instance though, Mainchain app doesn't.
I get your logic there. The user ban appeal should definitely be in the app tho.
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That said...
Feature Request: Increase the character limit and include a character count down near the text input box. I had to battle with it to post this and I had no indication why I suddenly couldn't type anything anymore.
Nice. Are you able to run Stable Diffusion locally or do you use a hosted version like something on Huggingface? You mention Automatic1111 so I'm assuming local. Is it the latest version and do you need beefy hardware to handle it?
Fast turn around, niceness. Many thanks.
The show was greenlit with a 5 season mandate. It'd be amazing if it being so horrible leads Amazon to cut their losses and bail on the remaining 3 season commitment on this awful show.
I watched the first episode of season 2 on Prime then hit "thumbs down" to remove it from my recommendations. I'm now one of the people who started but refused to finish the show, a damning metric in streaming that's the main reason shows get cancelled. I'm doing my part!
Note: Spielberg is a rumor. Sauce: https://x.com/80s_Kidz/status/1832829290565730739
Getting better though. Gone from top posts getting 2-3 likes to top posts getting 4-8 likes. Soon we'll regularly see double digit likes on posts. Organic growth with basically no ads and no AI bots or CEO's paying for fake engagement (a la Reddit's launch) boosting the numbers. It's kinda kewl.
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Someone should make a dedicated space sub. I'd do it but I mod too many already. The question is should it be "/s/pace" or "/s/space"?
I was about to go on this whole spiel that becoming legendary seems to only require artists to stay active longer than their peers but then I looked it up and friggin' Papa Roach is still active and they're the opposite of legendary so that ruins that theory.
It's a competition to make the new worst video game movie
Reminds me of when I made a German lady friend online a long time ago. We were on the phone and I was trying to think of something German we might have in common and the band Rammstein came to mind. I'd been blasting their song "Bück Dich" that day so I brought it up. Told German gal I loved the song and I'd learned the German lyrics and been singing it all day so much my mother was sick of hearing it at which point she cracked up laughing. When she could breathe again after laughing so hard she told me that "Buck Dich" is an explicit song about a man raping another man. Oof.
Yeah by video post I just meant YouTube etc.
All modern web design is soulless. Take it from a web designer who's been in the trenches since the 90's. I watched artistic, innovative design get slowly replaced by the standardized, formulaic, designed-by-engineers boredomscape we see today. I was designing graphics-intense table-based websites before CSS was a thing. There was a whole movement of people who viewed web design as art first and commerce a distant second. But then the engineers and business people came and they needed everything to be standardized and homogenized for maximum interoperability, platform support, and idiot user support. Basically if a 90 year old grandma with bad vision and poor computer literacy couldn't navigate your site like a pro on their first visit using one of those barely functional old-people phones then your design wasn't getting approved.
That's just the front end, on the backend the engineers need to justify their jobs existing and so generate a never ending parade of frameworks designers and devs have to learn (because the executives make them hiring requirements) which are often hostile to design freedom by reinforcing establish homogeneity or "patterns". Then cram all that into executive enforced development frameworks like Scrum or Agile that leave no room for experimentation and you have todays boring, everything looks the same interwebs.
All this is to say that if I really wanted to, and Cicero was down, I could make this site and the app look unique and amazing while still being as functional or moreso than any other social site. However I've had the love of web design beaten TF out of me by living through all those things I just complained about. It'd take a salary at least over 100k to get me to commit to that level of designing again (which is a bit more than mainchan volunteer designer pays haha).
So you're saying make it look like a Geocities website from the late 90's? Can the background be an animated fire gif? I vote fire gif.
Just a reminder that /s/FeatureRequest exist if anyone has an idea for Mainchan they want to highlight for consideration.
This isn't a chan site, it's a mix of a chan site and a content aggregator site. The retarded love child of 4chan and Reddit. That means greentext posts, text post, news posts, and image/video posts and anything in between.
Besides I know that any video or image I post is something I personally enjoy and want to share with others. That way they can also enjoy it and maybe we can vibe over mutually digging the same thing in the comments (for instance me an /u/ymous a while back finding we liked some of the same artists and genres of music). If I post a meme it was something that made me laugh that I felt someone else here might get a chuckle from. Granted no one has interacted with my Star Trek posts besides /u/Trek and I don't think they post here anymore but that's besides the point.
You want more text posts, make more text posts and make replies to text posts that generate more conversations. Me, I'mma go post another Star Trek article no one's going to comment on...
I wasn't even aware that posts a year old got archived. That is pretty shite. The archive limit should definitely be longer than one year, personally I'd set it at somewhere between 3 to 5 years and that's only if content needs to be archived for some server resource reason, otherwise I'd just keep all content active. Why limit where people can post when you don't have to and you're trying to grow the site? Having a huge percent of site content rendered non-interactive seems very self defeating.
Any thoughts from our valiant leader /u/Cicero?
Cool flag
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*/Throws garbage can through window
Finally figured out the source of your infinite lolis anon. "Gochūmon wa Usagi desu ka?" or "Is the Order a Rabit?" But besides that, WTF is up with the blue haired girl's right arm? The artist messed up and drew it way too long, it'd have to be coming out the middle of her back to look like that. You got a fetish for deformed lolis anon?
Oh and... YOU WILL NEVER CONQUER THE MIGHTY NECROSOCIALAND!
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