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.
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...
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.
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.
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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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?
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...
Just a reminder that /s/FeatureRequest exist if anyone has an idea for Mainchan they want to highlight for consideration.
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.
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).
Yeah by video post I just meant YouTube etc.
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.
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Ah but this is from the secret archives. Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/10nbtbb/the_vatican_archives_have_53_miles_of_shelving_35/
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.
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"?
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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.
Note: Spielberg is a rumor. Sauce: https://x.com/80s_Kidz/status/1832829290565730739