Definitely the one I would have linked to if I hadn't decided to go with a video that showed the band in it (only a few to chose from with that criteria, the finalists were the one I picked and Otaku). Their drummer kills it on Sentimental Heroine tho, you have good taste Tanuki.
When this song first came out I thought we were about to have another Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" moment. Thought it was about to be the birth of a new era of popular rock music. Alas corporate media was out of the rock n roll business by then except the last gasps of nu-metal. 24 years later and rock has still not had a mainstream come-back. This song is still awesome though.
Oh yeah, had that album on heavy repeat when it came out. Was disappointed in their follow up albums in comparison though, still great musicianship but IMO they never recaptured the magic of Relationship of Command. Part of that was likely on purpose because they're the types to experiment with no attachment to any working formulas they develop, and partly due to line-up changes.
I see your points about how /s/random could develop. Hadn't considered some of that. A couple things I thought of to help content discovery for the small subchans are:
Steal Reddit's "random" feature, click link in main navigation to go to a random SFW sub
Highlight the 5 most recently created SFW subs on the front page somehow
Ability to sort the subchan list in various ways like by: New, Old, SFW, NSFW, NSFL, user count, post count etc.
Add ability to crosspost between subs
Make sorting options for frontpage and /s/all persistent. RN the sort goes away when reloading the page.
Apologies to /u/Cicero for me just constantly trying to add work to your plate.
That's a colloquial term for Irish Trad music so basically the same as Irish folk, The Bothy Band fits the sound from what I've heard. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check 'em out, my inner hibernophile hasn't been tended to lately.
Acquaintances, Romans, cuntmen, once we unite as The Kingdom of NecroSociaLand with me as your benevolent ruler all will be made right. Memes will flow like water, we'll do weird Garfield shit, Cicero will be besieged with Feature Requests, people will actually respond to Shorty's teen angst posts and Gaystation will be in charge of reviewing all /u/SorbianSwitzerland and /u/Gokturks_are_furries strange world-music posts for the lulz. Yes my stinking, filthy peons you will all marvel at the glory of /s/StarTrek being made a default sub as the might of our legions defends and expands the Mainchan banner on Pixeland with the ferver of a thousand retards! /u/AnneBoonchy will be our spirit animal... or executioner... I haven't decied yet and /u/anonymous234 will be our court jester. No taxes, floggings will be brutal but fair, and the pr0n subs shall overfloweth with boobies.
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).
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.
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!
The Mainchan App Issues thread here lists all the missing features between the site and the app as something to be addressed. The Subchan List is issue #9 and Cicero says it'll eventually be added under the Subchan Tab in the app.
Now that I think about it someone should make a thread that links to all the website only pages for the app-only folks. I'll prolly do that today if no one beats me to it.
Mainchan is a free speech platform which is great but there's a hard truth that comes with that. We can filter out racists and gore but the fact that racism isn't banned or the hide-NSFL option isn't on by default even for guests means anyone with a public image to protect is likely to stay far away from here (unless they're a right winger or racist themselves, so maybe a Fox News or alt-right type celebrity). I couldn't budge Cicero's thinking on hiding NSFL by default a year ago when I asked about it so I can't imagine Mainchan's growth shaking out any other way despite most of the user base so far seemingly being center, center-left, and left (and not bigots).
Any celebrity who isn't a racist or righty that sets up shop here would have to be a free speech absolutist I think, otherwise they'd stick with the heavily censored platforms like Reddit. That or someone who's already a member here needs to become a celebrity. How about it Shorty, any plans to become like a movie star anytime soon?
At the loving, supporting and teaching absolutely. At the providing-for part definitely not considering providing for just myself has been a clusterfuck of mayhem.
The basilisk will remember your crimes
First time hearing this sound outside of Japan. Nice
Definitely the one I would have linked to if I hadn't decided to go with a video that showed the band in it (only a few to chose from with that criteria, the finalists were the one I picked and Otaku). Their drummer kills it on Sentimental Heroine tho, you have good taste Tanuki.
When this song first came out I thought we were about to have another Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" moment. Thought it was about to be the birth of a new era of popular rock music. Alas corporate media was out of the rock n roll business by then except the last gasps of nu-metal. 24 years later and rock has still not had a mainstream come-back. This song is still awesome though.
Oh yeah, had that album on heavy repeat when it came out. Was disappointed in their follow up albums in comparison though, still great musicianship but IMO they never recaptured the magic of Relationship of Command. Part of that was likely on purpose because they're the types to experiment with no attachment to any working formulas they develop, and partly due to line-up changes.
From the replies maybe Mainchan leans Android? I'm an Android user a well. Had any takers yet?
Yea why not just reboot them?
I see your points about how /s/random could develop. Hadn't considered some of that. A couple things I thought of to help content discovery for the small subchans are:
Steal Reddit's "random" feature, click link in main navigation to go to a random SFW sub
Highlight the 5 most recently created SFW subs on the front page somehow
Ability to sort the subchan list in various ways like by: New, Old, SFW, NSFW, NSFL, user count, post count etc.
Add ability to crosspost between subs
Make sorting options for frontpage and /s/all persistent. RN the sort goes away when reloading the page.
Apologies to /u/Cicero for me just constantly trying to add work to your plate.
That's a colloquial term for Irish Trad music so basically the same as Irish folk, The Bothy Band fits the sound from what I've heard. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check 'em out, my inner hibernophile hasn't been tended to lately.
Acquaintances, Romans, cuntmen, once we unite as The Kingdom of NecroSociaLand with me as your benevolent ruler all will be made right. Memes will flow like water, we'll do weird Garfield shit, Cicero will be besieged with Feature Requests, people will actually respond to Shorty's teen angst posts and Gaystation will be in charge of reviewing all /u/SorbianSwitzerland and /u/Gokturks_are_furries strange world-music posts for the lulz. Yes my stinking, filthy peons you will all marvel at the glory of /s/StarTrek being made a default sub as the might of our legions defends and expands the Mainchan banner on Pixeland with the ferver of a thousand retards! /u/AnneBoonchy will be our spirit animal... or executioner... I haven't decied yet and /u/anonymous234 will be our court jester. No taxes, floggings will be brutal but fair, and the pr0n subs shall overfloweth with boobies.
-Your Future Liege
Depends. Does this app also make deepfake porn of every woman who ever turned me down for a date?
I welcome chaos.
*/Throws garbage can through window
Cool flag
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).
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.
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!
Party time!
The Mainchan App Issues thread here lists all the missing features between the site and the app as something to be addressed. The Subchan List is issue #9 and Cicero says it'll eventually be added under the Subchan Tab in the app.
Now that I think about it someone should make a thread that links to all the website only pages for the app-only folks. I'll prolly do that today if no one beats me to it.
Squashed like a tube of toothpaste... if the paste was made of people.
So last night I posted 3 death metal videos and then this. I'm hilarious.
Mainchan is a free speech platform which is great but there's a hard truth that comes with that. We can filter out racists and gore but the fact that racism isn't banned or the hide-NSFL option isn't on by default even for guests means anyone with a public image to protect is likely to stay far away from here (unless they're a right winger or racist themselves, so maybe a Fox News or alt-right type celebrity). I couldn't budge Cicero's thinking on hiding NSFL by default a year ago when I asked about it so I can't imagine Mainchan's growth shaking out any other way despite most of the user base so far seemingly being center, center-left, and left (and not bigots).
Any celebrity who isn't a racist or righty that sets up shop here would have to be a free speech absolutist I think, otherwise they'd stick with the heavily censored platforms like Reddit. That or someone who's already a member here needs to become a celebrity. How about it Shorty, any plans to become like a movie star anytime soon?
At the loving, supporting and teaching absolutely. At the providing-for part definitely not considering providing for just myself has been a clusterfuck of mayhem.
Surely you mean Playstation Pro?