For the past year or so I've been wasting away my free time editing Wikipedia. I have found it to be quite fun and I like doing so, however Wikipedia has a plentitude of problems, which are only getting worse (centralization, censorship, shady donation business and more), so I want to find some other interesting projects, that I could contribute to. On Wikipedia I mostly edited computer science/otaku-related articles, since that is what I'm the most knowledgeable about. The purpose of this thread is NOT to compile a big list of Wikis, but rather to discuss what Wikis are particularly good to edit.
Some Wikis, that I can recall from the top of my mind are:
I like the Shikadi DOS Games Modding wiki. But updates from anyone are pretty infrequent because of the information being very niche and usually requiring a lot of personal research time.
There's also an adjacent Commander Keen wiki that's pretty much the place to go if you want to find Keen mods. But I only bother with reading that one, not editing.
the best way to use wikis is for trolling, terroediting is the best think to do
Some more Wikis I came across:
While the Thinkpad Wiki sounds in theory interesting, it is has two problems. One being, that you can't register yourself really, as long as you don't reveal your real name to the Admin, which I certainly won't do. Other than that, the Wiki itself is fine.
The SigID Wiki is very nice. You can edit without an account, but you may create one without any further problems. The Wiki itself is neatly organized and the signals are well documented. There seems to be an active, albeit small, community surrounding it too. I don't know much about Signals, so I can't really contribute besides minor editors like fixing spelling mistakes, but I might contribute more once I gained enough knowledge about it. Bonus points for using the Monobook theme.
There is also the DelphiGL Wiki, which is a German wiki concerning programming with OpenGL. It's quite old, but still helpful. You have to be part of their forum for a week and contribute, I think, at least 10 posts to be allowed to edit their forum. The obvious downside is the language barrier and, that it requires you to be part of their forum, but otherwise I don't see much issue with this. The articles seem to be written in a more laid-back and relaxed way with many jokes inbetween the pile of technical info.
Apparently there is a new /g/-Wiki at https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Main_Page. I've been spending the whole noon looking for stuff to edit, albeit I'm not sure whether it's worth it, or whether it will die again. It's weird, because the old /g/-Wiki still exists and is still accessible, but they made a new one. I don't know if there was some technical issue or interpersonal issue, but it seems weird to me.
I have an idea to build an internet community for a topic, that interests me, but isn't discussed anywhere besides a subreddit and probably a handful of Discord and IRC servers. The thing is that I like anonymous message boards in principle and I prefer them, as a user, greatly over regular forums. The idea of anonymity rather than pseudonymity is just appealing to me on many levels. However, when it comes to being the administrator of such a place, it seems that a regular forum (something running Xenforo or phpBB for instance) has lower maintenance needs than an textboard/imageboard. It's not that I'm lazy, but I just don't want to deal with spammers, CSAM posters and all the kinds of annoying shit people do when they are not bound to an account. The kinds of spam that is a regular thing on most imageboard, yet on other forums, where you have to have a registered account to use, it's practically non-existent (at least in forums that are dedicated to hobbies and particular interests. While it makes spam practically non-existent, it probably also reduces the overall traffic by a lot, as nobody wants to make an account somewhere, when they could just not. I'm still not sure whether I should make this forum/message board at all, but assuming I am going to do this eventually, can any seasoned admins give me their two cents on whether a forum or anonymous textboard is preferable for a certain interest of mine? Personally I am inclined towards textboards, since that is what I have grown up with and what I think would be my preferred option if I were the user, nonetheless it's still a different thing from an administrators perspective.
Anonymity is great because nobody can become popular, well-known, or more important than somebody else. Many of the ills of the modern internet are there, because people put too much importance on their identity, a thing that is not there in anonymous places like here. This has the disadvantage that nobody knows anyone really, I suppose that's a thing you have to ponder, if that is really what you want. Such is my reasoning why I prefer anonymity, is that though worth the nonsense and cancer you have to deal with when being a site administrator? The spam that plaques this place is pissing me off, despite me not even having to care, just having to endure it as a user, so I doubt it will be any better when I run such a site myself.
Sounds like you're trying to appeal to a chunk of an already niche community.
Maybe ask what kind of site the fans of your thing are into?
You wanna appeal to them, not just to you.
And some people actually like that whole popularity thing.
Also, you're gonna have to deal with spam, accounts or not.
If you're not seeing spam, it's probably just efficient moderation.
Couldn't really say without knowing what your interest is and what its community is like. 1chan - .us not .net - was an example of an otherwise normal IB that required registration to post. Another thing would be all posts are anonymous but have to be manually mod approved which would quickly get tiring.
Forums more time consuming in creating, managing, and posting on. Text boards, not so much.
But even image and text boards are becoming dead and used less just like when forums were left behind and ditched.
>Maybe ask what kind of site the fans of your thing are into?
I don't know if I get your question correctly, but if you are asking what kind of site the people in the already-existing niche would be using, then probably a forum, since they are used to Reddit and I assume that is the closest to that. On the other hand, I would guess more people would start using it, when no account is needed.
>>3
>Couldn't really say without knowing what your interest is and what its community is like.
The whole shtick would a board for discussing collapse of civilization, mostly apolitical though, not unlike r/collapse, but maybe with a bit more quality-control (that's probably bold of me wanting quality when I probably won't get any traffic at all). Outside of Reddit there is practically no place to discuss this besides some quality-less, probably dead, and uninteresting Telegram groups and Discord chatrooms.
>>4
Have you guys heard the news lately?
Every time I find a new textboard, I keep seeing the same names over and over. "kuz", "heyuri", "4x13", and I sense a general atmosphere where everybody knows each other. I remember namefags in my day, but it's different from that because it feels like everybody knows each other even when they're posting anonymously.
>>9
i liked those gimmick boards where OP could be .it/.xm/.mod files and i'd like to see more stuff like that. you'd have to be careful though, sounds like it could be exploited.
> you'd have to be careful though, sounds like it could be exploited
In a world full of anonymizers, bots and spammer sweatshops, I feel like "careful" isn't good enough any more. You either have to commit to constantly cleaning up the mess bad actors make like we see here, make people have accounts/verification hoops to jump through that kind of defeats the point, or maybe you have some genius solution that's beyond my ability to think up.
This is why we can't have nice things.
>spacehey
as a quite avid user of that site, it's always (pleasantly) surprising to see it mentioned in the wild
>>14
erm as a quite avid user its pleasant to be a faggot outside of my faggot zone
they are the same people, you retard
it is called propaganda, children doing propaganda
they are children who want to make names for themselves
who is kuz? who is heyuri? 4x13 equals 52 i do not know
i do not know because i am not a child
>>12
Kills me that the few places that did have module/tracker boards are now dead-dead. I can't even think of one that's still around?
iiichan is gone, sovietrussia is gone. There might have been more but I can't remember them.
>>18
I unironically can do it on the textboard I'm making from scratch
But the board must be used and the style of the site should not make you throw up
>>19
make sure to seriously sanitize the uploads. who knows how many vulns the various tracker libs have.
4x13 is Tokiko who's been around forever...
What happened to textboard.org? Didn't bother to visit for a while and now I see it's down. Is it gone forever?
The last valid shot in WebArchive is just some file collection.
Its gone? RIP schemeBBS
Did anyone grab an archive of the boards? Some of the discussions on there were amazing.
It came as a shock to me when it disappeared, it was probably one of my favourite textboards. Having felt personally responsible for kicking off several of the more interesting threads on there, it feels quite lonesome now that its gone. Bitdiddle could have at least announced he was going to take the site down or post an archive in the file list or something.
It had a very unique balance between actual thought-provoking discussion, creativity, and shitposting. If any recent site were worthy of inheriting the title of
i miss it :/
Can anyone access afternoon.dynu.com i.e Post Office?
I'm worried it's taken down because for the last week at least, it just throws 404s.
It was a really nice, chill place except for one tard posting links. Hope it's not been killed.
>>10
It was hosted by the same admin as SAoVQ and he's been missing for a while now.
It feels like just yesterday that it was spun up.
how many people do you know who have died after taking the covid vaccine?
My online conspiracy bubble is still on 'Covid isn't real', the whole vaccine thing is for posers/casuals.
New Homestar Runner cartoon to celebrate its 25 years on this widest of world webs:
Why did we undo Flash only to reinvent it all with this HTML5 canvas JavaScript sorcery? I assumed the point was that all the multimedia/interactivity was gimmicky for web pages, as well as proprietary.
Now everything is just in the browser--including Flash emulators like Ruffle. You can even highly obfuscate code, effectively run malware (crypto miners and so on).
Bring back Flash!
>>2
Flash wasn't deprecated out of opposition to multimedia/interactivity, it was deprecated because it was proprietary, insecure, and difficult for old people to install. The plan with HTML5 from the start was to allow normal web-devs to do things that previously required Flash and work on HTML5 started long before Flash was killed.
Unfortunately, all that HTML5 interactivity fails to do the one thing Flash was great at - allowing tech illiterate retards to make interactive webpages, art, animations, and games and distribute it all in a convenient format. It used to be possible for any idiot to pirate Flash and have a nice, visually intuitive GUI for throwing together interactive animations of poorly drawn women choking on cocks, and the end result usually had a low file size and could be distributed as one file for reposting on /f/! Now that same retard would have to learn Javascript (and figure out how to integrate his code into his animation without a nice GUI to help) or abandon the joys of interactivity in favor of making a normal poorly drawn animation (far less fun).
>>2
Not only is it reinvented, it's been reinvented worse. A not insignificant portion of my work is in using Adobe's bullshit fake Flash, and it struggles like Flash never did trying to draw any image that's larger than 512x512. It's laughable.
>>3
I always took it there was some kind of cultural idea that sticking applets/whatever-the-fuck inside of a web page was against the 'point' of the web, and at some stage they decided, 'Fuck it, people want it, let's implement that as part of The Standards.'
At least the shitty games and animations were fun in their own right.
Chris-Chan just raped his mom and was arrested for incest.
https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Chris%27s_letter_from_jail
Chris is doomed
doom doom doom the end
>>409
This is a very interesting development.
Repent ye sinners for the Messiah is upon us.
good riddence!
how did he get away with it??? Maybe the dimensional merge is real
>>23
A year and a half in solitary confinement is "getting away with it"?
Regardless because he is completely gone mentally, in a lot of countries that did deinstitutionalisation crazy people are just kind of allowed to roam the streets despite what the state says for a myriad of reasons, but commonly it's just because the staff of the jail or the psychiatric hospital or whatever doesn't want to deal with a problem patient over years
Chris now has a girlfriend (may even knock her up), travels to Finland regularly, and is seemingly invincible. Thread title didn't age well.
I only usually visit this textboard, I don't know if there is any other one in English that is just as active, i would enter 2ch or 5ch but I don't live in Japan and I don't even know Japanese
Obviously here
Also SAOVQ, sageru.org dis.tinychan, textboard.org, bbs.gikopoi, boards.graybox, etc
>>2
faggot
Looks like SAoVQ is being DDOS'd?
I can't post there or on the PostOffice.
>>2 is right. That is the most active textboard even if it sucks Kuz’s AIDS ridden cock.
This thread was obviously made only to be repeatedly bumped to shill shituri.
>>2
globohomo shillery for the most retarded retards.
>>2
globohetero organic promotion for the most smartest aryans
Danger/u/ is pretty active.
I want something similar to Strange World (ex, https://ayashii.net ) but behaves more like Kareha and other 2ch-likes. In addition, I would rather that new threads belong to "tags" than "boards"
This is what I have so far:
demo https://bbs.gikopoi.com/
src https://github.com/153/pohon2
Aside from having a tags feature (which will be improved soon), there is also a "tree view" that can make conversations a little easier to follow, and there are also Atom feeds for all site threads, each tag, and all recent site comments.
What do you think would be some cool features to add ?
I've been asked multiple times to make the site more "mobile friendly" -- that's a hard no, there. Posts from people sitting on the toilet add nothing to the site.
Hello, Tokiko
The truth is we don't need more textboards or more textboard softwares. We need more people to want to use them or a niche community that decides to use one. The best textboard software is either Kareha or something built to imitate it as much as possible.
Just look at this thread, immaculate perfection. Looks great on desktop, looks great on mobile.
Yours is kind of an eyesore. The colors while not completely your design are painful to read, the font is annoying and the whitespace is a bit too big. Here it's comfortable and easy to read. Everything is spotless.
Even just putting a grey-ish background, black text color, and removing the uncomfortable font your BBS becomes much more readable and less straining on the eyes.
If one wants to use a tag system then a Kareha clone with tags instead of boards would suffice. It doesn't need to be more unique than that, and in fact it may actually serve to alienate a few people who otherwise would be interested.
Also poipoi is the one true site also the game.
Forgot to mention, but I also agree phone users are worthless contributors and nothing more than mindless consumers and responds with 1 sentence using buzzwords or catch phrases to stroke their ego. However, it can be nice to mindlessly surf and read on the toilet and reply from a computer later so you'll want to cater to those because someone may discover your website while on the toilet. One way to prevent posting is to use a useragent or window size css detection to disable posting from mobile by throwing an error or just hiding the post form.
> We need more people to want to use them or a niche community that decides to use one.
Valid point
> [the stylesheet sucks]
The initial design is meant to be more of a homage to sites running "Strange World" (like ayashii.net) than Kareha and friends, but I think a Kareha-esque alternative stylesheet down the line will definitely be a thing.
Do you think the current stylesheet/UI is better than SW's? I do, but I'm obviously biased.
> [why not just make a kareha with tags?]
I personally like the pseud0ch theme a lot. It's hard to pander to the broader, "normie" audience when it comes to UX design, because what normal people want is Material/Facebook/Corpo-chic superflat garbage that's designed mostly to signal to consumers that you spent a lot on a graphic designer. You seldom see a nice, static, geocities-style website anymore, except among web developers. Aesthetically, they can be both awful and amazing. It's more about the resources used and what they represent though. Among developers who are more sensetive to web bloat and worthless js frameworks and infinite scroll hamburgers, a small, static website with a little character is king.