I wonder how doable that is technically. Seems easy enough to enforce a limit to one user account. But what about alt accounts? What about users who run alt accounts trough a VPN or other proxy which defeats an IP or location based approach? What about the edge cases? Two mods at the limit on a public or shared device? One logs out and then another uses that device and because whatever measure sees both accounts on the same device the accounts are flagged as one single user violating the mod limit even though neither has?
Enforcement of a mod limit at scale could be a recipe for an unmanageable game of whack-a-mole. Also I'm unsure if or how much Mainchan allowing anonymous mods might throw a wrench in the works.
Just spitballing here, Cicero might know of some method that makes it super easy *shrug*
Perhaps an alternate route. What about multiple domain names? Throw a variable everywhere where the site name/domain is referenced (links, terms of service, site logo, etc.) And just dynamicly load the name based on which domain is being used. For instance the top logo could be "(%variable here).png" in the code and when viewed on mainchan.com would show "mainchan.png" or if viewed on main.social would be "main.png" (foo.com = foo.png etc) always showing the appropriate logo and site name to the visitor for each domain. It would make it possible to add domains for special occassions or as a joke (go to poo.social to load a joke version of the site with a poo emoji logo, brown dark mode and other poop related crap <-- see what I did there?).
Whichever domain pulls in the most users call that one the official domain and the rest alts. I do think sticking with the Main(something) nomenclature would be ideal though since the mainbros/mainhoes stuff is fun.
Edit: Also random feature request, a toggle in user settings to automatically upvote posts you reply to. I feel like a lot of people, myself included, forget to upvote posts when interacting with them.
Every time I see one of these reposted it gets more and more degraded. Art is by Jason Heuser, pristine versions of his work can be found on his Website, Artstation and Instagram.
Oh that's just a standard cum well, just with the old Germanic spelling "kumwell". Back before traces of cum were added to everyone's drinking water men had to refill their balls at these local cum wells. A fount with a cock-height, mouth-shaped opening was affixed to the well basin under the plate. Men would then stick their penises (or in ye olde speak "earth rods") into the fount and a lever would be pulled releasing a nutsack-filling amount of white gold baby batter right up the man's tallywhacker which as any doctor will tell you is a sound, though crude method of replenishing a man's jizz reserves.
However with modern advances in both engineering and cum mining/processing these days we're able to passively refill our kumknurdles (as the Germans would call empty balls) just by drinking refreshing, nano-cum infused, tap water. The more you know eh?
It's likely the same reason website owners care about analytics, it's an engagement metric, let's you take the temperature of how your content is being received.
I don't think it's sad, I ran a bunch of PHPBB type forums back in the day, the slow build of the user base really takes me back. Savor it now, eventually it'll hit critical mass and 5x your stress level to keep up with.
Of course should the pantelegraph still not meet your debloating and optimization needs the goto fix is, obviously, telepathy. While it will necessitate giving your AI girlfriend the mecha-cortex upgrade (not cheap) to allow her to decode telepathic signaling the results can't be beaten.
...Unless you're a truly dedicated web developer in which case you can further optimize your site by engineering around the well known "flesh bottleneck" present in standard telepathy. This is an easy step that can be achieved in a variety of ways though most devs choose to employ a purpose-made guillotine to decapitate themselves thereby freeing the soul up to directly transmit your site to users without the costly overhead of sending out packets through brain matter and bone. The femtoseconds of download time one saves this way can significantly reduce your site's bounce rate while boosting user engagement.
I've mentioned to Cicero that when users post external links here, clicking those links will take the users off of Mainchain because they load in the current tab. That kills engagement because people are far more likely not to hit the back button on their browser to return to the site and comment on the link post than to just close out the tab and forget they were ever here. The simple fix for this is making sure all links created by the comment editor include a target="_blank" attribute. That would ensure links open in a separate tab every time. Meaning when the user closes the tab of the linked article they'll still have Mainchan open to the post they were on. Would make it more likely these link posts get some comment traction. It seems like a super easy fix, dunno why it hasn't been implemented yet. Maybe the HTML this comment editor injects is harder to update than I'm guessing.
Well a decently performing post used to average between 2-3 upvotes with 0-2 comments now we're starting to see them in the 5+ range with 5+ comments so that's a thing.
Greentext option seems a lil hidden. Like it's not something you can just select in the comment editor, you gotta know it requires a leading greater-than symbol. Maybe you chan vets are used to it but it's new to a Reddit refugee like myself.
Really shows the point of the API change isn't even money when they ignore potential customers. The point has always been to kill the 3rd party ecosystem.
The chan is definitely too frightening for a lot of redditors. I was even hesitant to join at first because of the name and the crowd the "chan" implied would gravitate to the site.
I wonder how doable that is technically. Seems easy enough to enforce a limit to one user account. But what about alt accounts? What about users who run alt accounts trough a VPN or other proxy which defeats an IP or location based approach? What about the edge cases? Two mods at the limit on a public or shared device? One logs out and then another uses that device and because whatever measure sees both accounts on the same device the accounts are flagged as one single user violating the mod limit even though neither has?
Enforcement of a mod limit at scale could be a recipe for an unmanageable game of whack-a-mole. Also I'm unsure if or how much Mainchan allowing anonymous mods might throw a wrench in the works.
Just spitballing here, Cicero might know of some method that makes it super easy *shrug*
Perhaps an alternate route. What about multiple domain names? Throw a variable everywhere where the site name/domain is referenced (links, terms of service, site logo, etc.) And just dynamicly load the name based on which domain is being used. For instance the top logo could be "(%variable here).png" in the code and when viewed on mainchan.com would show "mainchan.png" or if viewed on main.social would be "main.png" (foo.com = foo.png etc) always showing the appropriate logo and site name to the visitor for each domain. It would make it possible to add domains for special occassions or as a joke (go to poo.social to load a joke version of the site with a poo emoji logo, brown dark mode and other poop related crap <-- see what I did there?).
Whichever domain pulls in the most users call that one the official domain and the rest alts. I do think sticking with the Main(something) nomenclature would be ideal though since the mainbros/mainhoes stuff is fun.
Edit: Also random feature request, a toggle in user settings to automatically upvote posts you reply to. I feel like a lot of people, myself included, forget to upvote posts when interacting with them.
Every time I see one of these reposted it gets more and more degraded. Art is by Jason Heuser, pristine versions of his work can be found on his Website, Artstation and Instagram.
I can get you your games, you just need to send $420 in BTC to this wallet 0x3E0bc7bc12984f10DE291a4Ac4a33F403A96182f to get started.
>*rubs hands together totally trustworthily
Oh that's just a standard cum well, just with the old Germanic spelling "kumwell". Back before traces of cum were added to everyone's drinking water men had to refill their balls at these local cum wells. A fount with a cock-height, mouth-shaped opening was affixed to the well basin under the plate. Men would then stick their penises (or in ye olde speak "earth rods") into the fount and a lever would be pulled releasing a nutsack-filling amount of white gold baby batter right up the man's tallywhacker which as any doctor will tell you is a sound, though crude method of replenishing a man's jizz reserves.
However with modern advances in both engineering and cum mining/processing these days we're able to passively refill our kumknurdles (as the Germans would call empty balls) just by drinking refreshing, nano-cum infused, tap water. The more you know eh?
I turned off political posts a while ago
It's likely the same reason website owners care about analytics, it's an engagement metric, let's you take the temperature of how your content is being received.
Yeah no I checked, they stayed long all the way down. They dumb. Seem wealthy regardless though so that probably takes the sting off.
I checked out kbin, was surprised how active it was but didn't join. I dunno, Mainchan just has more soul or something.
I don't think it's sad, I ran a bunch of PHPBB type forums back in the day, the slow build of the user base really takes me back. Savor it now, eventually it'll hit critical mass and 5x your stress level to keep up with.
1990 Toyota Crown Super Select
You'll fit right in on Grindr then.
Instructions unclear, got raped.
Of course should the pantelegraph still not meet your debloating and optimization needs the goto fix is, obviously, telepathy. While it will necessitate giving your AI girlfriend the mecha-cortex upgrade (not cheap) to allow her to decode telepathic signaling the results can't be beaten.
...Unless you're a truly dedicated web developer in which case you can further optimize your site by engineering around the well known "flesh bottleneck" present in standard telepathy. This is an easy step that can be achieved in a variety of ways though most devs choose to employ a purpose-made guillotine to decapitate themselves thereby freeing the soul up to directly transmit your site to users without the costly overhead of sending out packets through brain matter and bone. The femtoseconds of download time one saves this way can significantly reduce your site's bounce rate while boosting user engagement.
Excellent work mate.
I've mentioned to Cicero that when users post external links here, clicking those links will take the users off of Mainchain because they load in the current tab. That kills engagement because people are far more likely not to hit the back button on their browser to return to the site and comment on the link post than to just close out the tab and forget they were ever here. The simple fix for this is making sure all links created by the comment editor include a target="_blank" attribute. That would ensure links open in a separate tab every time. Meaning when the user closes the tab of the linked article they'll still have Mainchan open to the post they were on. Would make it more likely these link posts get some comment traction. It seems like a super easy fix, dunno why it hasn't been implemented yet. Maybe the HTML this comment editor injects is harder to update than I'm guessing.
Voted over, but under if haz cat.
https://mainchan.com/s/announcements/2072/Mainchan-Minor-update-Reworking-vote-calculation
Could be related.
Well a decently performing post used to average between 2-3 upvotes with 0-2 comments now we're starting to see them in the 5+ range with 5+ comments so that's a thing.
Greentext option seems a lil hidden. Like it's not something you can just select in the comment editor, you gotta know it requires a leading greater-than symbol. Maybe you chan vets are used to it but it's new to a Reddit refugee like myself.
>I'm still getting the hang of things around here
Really shows the point of the API change isn't even money when they ignore potential customers. The point has always been to kill the 3rd party ecosystem.
>tight
Ha, Angus everyone knows your shart shaft is all loose and flappy.
The chan is definitely too frightening for a lot of redditors. I was even hesitant to join at first because of the name and the crowd the "chan" implied would gravitate to the site.
Ahh, warm fuzzies I haven't felt since COD MW2 lobbies.