/meta/ - Ruthless criticism of all that exists (in leftychan.net)

>>2598
Right now I think the sites main problem is that its spread too thin. PPH only matters if its below a certain threshold and imo eery board is below that threshold

The point of imageboards (or any social media) is to communicate with other people. If an average poster cant expect a significant amount of replies within, say… 24hrs, then why bother posting at all?

I would say the best thing that could be done rn is to concentrate activity into a few useable boards and then grow/scale back up as needed. Right now, only /leftypol/ has any meaningful amount of activity and its barely enough as is (see >>3325). We should focus on keeping it alive before fucking around with /hobby/ and /tech/ boards. Think of it as crisis management, after all if there are no posters, what is the point of the entire site?

In short, my proposals.

1) TEMPORARILY, get rid of all boards other than /leftypol/ and /meta/. Theres no need to delete them, just hide them like /dead/ and bring it back when the need arises.

2) TEMPORARILY, reduce the number of simultaneously active threads (permanently imo). From the catalog I count over 16x21 (336) active threads? thats seems ridiculous. It's cool that conversations can be revisited and picked up much later but it has the same effect of splitting activity too thinly. Again, better to have 3 threads with 30 replies than 30 threads w/ 3 replies. From glancing at 4chinz I would recommend 10x12 (120) threads, they have more but are also over a 1000 times larger. If it's enough for them, it's plenty here.

3) ADVERTISE, the site once it starts to pick up. It may feel gross and shameless, but it's only necessary to reach a critical mass of posters then you'll NEVER have to do it again. How is anyone supposed to know this place exists? It doesn't have to be shameless e-begging either; lot's of people found bunkerchan through screenshots tagged with the site name. The catch is it ONLY works if the site is worth caring about in the first place. Manufacturing fake screenshots is silly and all the advertising in the world means little if no-one cares enough to hang around. Building a good community comes first, telling others about it second.

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>>3361
I would question the benefits of getting rid of boards now that we have an overboard. The way they work now has a nice balance for preserving topics that don't get bumped often enough to not basically die on /leftypol/, while not totally cutting them off from an audience since they will intermittently be seen by overboard users.

3) would seem like it should be the main priority: When people look for /leftypol/ they need to be directed here, not to Bunkerchan. ideally we'd send /pol/ spammers there, obviously, but we're also better equipped to handle them if they arrive. That's the one big disadvantage we presently have. That, and perhaps a greater reluctance to reach beyond imageboards to invite a wider audience to become part of the userbase in the way that 8/leftypol/ was occasionally willing to.

>>2598
>Hey guise lets divide ourselves and then sit at useless impotent circlejerks being stagnating sectarians that we all surely are. This will definetily help us to advance our theory!
Shove all that Peace™ and Left Unity™ crap up yer aess and read Lenin.

>>2598
Feedback received but this goes against the 'spirit' of /leftypol/ and would furthermore just suppress activity, so, we're not going to do it and I'm gonna anchor the topic.

How would allowing exit nodes change this?

>>>/b/817
>>>/b/9295
>>>/b/9371
>>>/b/10321
They already have like four threads that were moved to /b/.

>>3345
Lmao why the fuck do jannies not just remove the duplicates? Is /b/ just would-be deleted threads but with extra steps?

>>3348
>Is /b/ just would-be deleted threads but with extra steps?
Yes.

I think that's actually the main reason why /b/ was made in the first place since /GET/ was already a community and it'd be kinda rude to dump our toxic waste there.

but it's there

>>3313
i dont see it on firefox is it only visible on other browsers?

>>3315
I am on firefox and I see it.

>>3316
oh shit, the placement was way different so i didnt even see it

because they beloing on leftypol

>>1126
This is a known issue, but you didn't bother to check the ttg thread did you? >>>/leftypol/43525

>>1127
Of course not, I'm not going to look for some stupid ass off-topic thread on the politics thread when there's a whole board dedicated to
> Discussions, querries, feedback and complaints about the site and its administration.

>>1128
This issue was fixed in the latest site update.

cant even edit your own posts, truly half-baked.

Sorry anon but you are dumb

>>1114
>gets called out on being a lazy developer
>finally installs missing feature and pretends it was there the whole time
Real small pp energy from you bro

It's only been barely over a week from this site's setting up. Why such a hurry to remove those couple of boards?

Sometimes you have to make something available first before others start making use of it, as with public transportation and women in computer science. Why not the same for >>>/anime/ and similar?

It would also be better to have this on the site discussion board, or linked on the relevant boards where it can be accessible, because not everyone received the message about the possibly pending deletion until later.

>>110
>The potential ideas right now are 7chan (which Comatoast moderates on) and 420chan. Both of these have relatively left wing communities
I didn't know 7chan has a left wing community.

>>1093
Somewhat

>>278
When I click on the link in this post (>>274) it tries to redirect me to https://leftypol.org/meta/res/172.html#274
instead of the correct https://leftypol.org/meta/res/110.html#274
I assume this is because both posts belonged to the same thread which was merged to this one.

>>1093
>7chan
no wonder there's so many lolifags

>>1069
thanks doc

I would make the colors much darker, so that it's white text on dark. Like a night theme.
Still very nice though.

Just post it when you're feeling it and we can add it to the config styles.

>>1069
Text is too dark

>>1098
this

>>3282
Didn't post a screenshot of it so far because it didn't happen to me again, but just now it did. Here you go.

>>3227
Fuck you ex-dictator tranny, I'm glad you're not the man in charge anymore, you can't ban me now.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Why is the layout/design of this site so shit?

Space is literally the most stupid thing there is.

Jokes aside, I never understood why Lainchan though this was good design.
Trying to click on a one-character board on mobile is ridiculously frustrating.

>>1064
because Appleman is a faggot
Sorry about that

You can fix this in line 1303 in the /stylesheets/style.css file by changing "word-spacing: -3px;" to "word-spacing: initial;".

However, the top bar currently looks spaced like this:
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