2ch portal update please? (14)

1 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-04 03:16 ID:5Ux6B65x

The 2 Channel — English Navigator page currently reads:

> ... Please send corrections, additions, requests, and the like to Squeeks. If you are requesting a new board addition, please give both the name and the section under which it is listed. A suggested translation or explanation is appreciated.

However, Squeeks is gone. Many board links are old. There are a few new boards as well. Do you need specific suggestions on this matter, or is it something you can accomplish on your own?

2 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-06 10:31 ID:5Ux6B65x

I know it seems like a lot of work because pretty much all of the urls have changed, and maybe no one cares besides me, but please consider it...

3 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-11 06:31 ID:5Ux6B65x

did bps die?

4 Name: bps!!+u1+mB+S (Admin) : 2014-04-12 15:41 ID:Heaven

Sorry, I've been a bit busy the last few weeks with exams and travelling. I will change the Squeeks thing to bps after this post.

You are right that a lot of it is outdated, and I would definitely like to see it be up to date. That said, I don't know if I am the right guy to fix all of these links given that I know hardly any Japanese. If you are capable of doing it then I would greatly appreciate it, but if not I might spend an evening giving it a go.

Feel free to talk to me directly about it on IRC as well (#4-ch @ irc.synirc.net).

5 Name: bps!!+u1+mB+S (Admin) : 2014-04-13 18:24 ID:Heaven

I spent the afternoon working on it and all should be up to date now. Check it out: http://services.4-ch.net/2chportal/ (Make sure you properly reload the page, since frames can be weird. It has changed, trust me.)

For reference, the old version is now kept here: http://services.4-ch.net/2chportal/0.4

I've removed dead links, added the new boards, updated all the old links, and made a few style changes. I also did the necessary things to make it HTML5 compliant (except frames, which are apparently deprecated - I will fix this another time though).

The only outstanding problem is that some of the translations are still not 100% (surrounded by question marks, etc.). If anybody wants to contribute better translations I will happily add them. In the mean time I think it is fit for purpose. I might also ask a friend who knows Japanese to give some attention to it - we'll see.

I hope you are satisfied with it.

6 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-14 03:47 ID:5Ux6B65x

It's lovely, thank you for taking the time.

As for translations, so far I've noticed that ほのぼのnews+, in the news section, still says femalenews+, which is the title of a very old board, from perhaps 2006 or so. So it's probably not really an error of translation, but rather an old oversight that no one discovered.

Also, Liaisons is misspelled.

7 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-14 06:48 ID:5Ux6B65x

Some new boards you missed (unless they were added between the time you updated it and now!?!):

in the Entertainment category:
アジアエンタメ Asia entertainment

in the Manga, Books, etc. category:
電子書籍 e-books
ノベルキャラ novel characters

8 Name: bps!!+u1+mB+S (Admin) : 2014-04-14 10:02 ID:Heaven

>>6
What should it be? Google Translate suggests "Heartwarming News+"...

>>7
Actually they were there all along, just commented out with <!-- -->, which explains why my automated script didn't pick them up! I've uncommented them now so they should be visible.

9 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-14 16:17 ID:5Ux6B65x

>>8
Heartwarming News+ sounds good.

Thanks for all your hard work!

10 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-14 16:28 ID:5Ux6B65x

on second thought, under Liaisons, the word ほのぼの was translated as Pleasant. So if you care about being consistent, you could do Pleasant News+. But Heartwarming is nice too.

11 Name: bps!!+u1+mB+S (Admin) : 2014-04-14 23:33 ID:Heaven

>>10
I changed it to Pleasant. Consistency is important!

>>9

>Thanks for all your hard work!

My pleasure!

12 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-19 11:07 ID:J+HhM7On

A new board has been added

http://mastiff.2ch.net/diary/

13 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-21 09:23 ID:Heaven

>>12
A board for microblogging... that's interesting
and the admin posts in English

14 Name: Anonymous Advisor : 2014-04-22 14:17 ID:Heaven

>>13
yeah, I don't know if Code Monkey even speaks Japanese

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