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?]
We have had enough kareha clones that've failed in the past, aside from 4-ch and dis.tinychan (if you can call it "successful"), which already have their own devoted communities.
Personally, I don't think 4-ch or dis.tinychan would benefit from tags -- it goes against the X many year precedent those communities are already following.
> The site can still look good for phones, even if phones can't post
I agree. Speaking of which... hey squeeks, https://4-ch.net/mobile is broken, fix it!
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.