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I don't have an exact date yet, but I'm most likely going to be shutting down the board.
Something I've told myself for a while is that it doesn't hurt to keep it up. But it's a bit of sunken cost fallacy, because there's no benefit to keeping it up either. It was a cool thing I made but even if I don't work on more features for it, I have to maintain the server it's on. I have to keep up with CVEs. I have to install updates. And every ounce of energy that goes into this board is energy that is not put into my other projects. Another layer of this problem is that even if I leave it in the background while focusing on other tasks, it's eventually going to distract me and lure me back into working on it again, since that's just how I am.
I'm not just going to shut it off over night. I want to get it into a state where I can make static copies of the entire site and then preserve the archives. Keeping at least that as a memento online is how I'm going to justify the work I put into this thing and also turn away from it.
The blog at goeshard.org will stay up so I'm not going anywhere.
I'm strongly considering taking this board down again.
Not just the board but the entire server.
I have to make up my mind by November 18th.
>>0x000008
I'm shutting the server off. Details on my blog
https://nobo.bearblog.dev/im-shutting-off-my-server-on-november-17/
Over the next month I'm going to be treating the board like it's my personal site and just dumping content to threads because when the backend goes off line, the archive of posts will remain here and might as well put some nice stuff on the front page.
>>0x000002
> is there any way i can talk you out of this?
> if not you are gay just saying
Despite this warning, he has doubled down. What a way to come out of the closet
sad but Bandcamp is now blocking my cors proxy server that I've been using to generate the embeds from URLs. They most likely are not blocking my server specifically but rather sweeped it up with an ASN block.
I'm not particularly inclined to investigate getting around it, since it would be an uphill battle if they aren't content to just let me do it.
RIP
Bandcamp's getting cucked lately. It's a shame to see them start to decline
>>0x000004
> The Bandcamp embeds work again.
yeah I didn't even do anything. Something must have been broken on BC's end and when they fixed it, it worked again.
I did a quick frontend update. The most obvious one is the background. But I also toned down the pushing for people to register and post under accounts. It was a noble effort to get people to consider it, but no one's going to do that. No point pushing for it anymore. Also, the latest posts link is presented in more places, since it's the best way to see what's new on the site and people should know about it.
Thanks to Opus for moving threads around for me.
Do you like the background or nah?
You ever get something funny as the captcha text? When I was adding to the dada thread I post "poster"
but they don't post their /art/ ?
I decided to force /trash/ to the bottom of the board list so new users won't see it first at least.
I used to omit it from latest posts but that just made keeping track of what is getting posted there more difficult. Logged in users have the option to prevent it from displaying anywhere on the site but of course no one uses that.
Maybe I could come out with different endpoints for latest posts, some that include trash, and default ones that don't.
But another thing to keep in mind is that the moment users start coming here expecting this to be a manicured, safe Internet experience where all the things they don't like never appear is the moment that those users will be mad at us for not being able to deliver that.
I destroyed almost all my art earlier this year. It felt pretty good and now I have pretty much nothing to show people.
>>0x000006
> I destroyed almost all my art earlier this year. It felt pretty good and now I have pretty much nothing to show people.
I think about X'ing out goeshard all the time. But I'd rather get to a point of finally being comfortable with what I am. I've been detroying my creations for a long time now so it doesn't feel as good as it used to.
But I understand.
I will move posts that were intended as a shit post but actually bring up a topic people could post about.
Here is an example of that: https://board.goeshard.org/thread/how-old-are-your-shoes/
How many people understand the original post hijacking I wonder...
https://board.goeshard.org/thread/euukantiporn-dsa/
It's actually really helpful to do that if you know how to do it.
EDIT: if you don't know
If a thread OP and its thumbnail don't explain and show what a thread is about, someone can hijack the thread by writing a post with a better title, a better thumbnail, and a bettery intro text. And if they do it right, I will give them the hijack and put their post at the top.
Look at the metadata to see the post order after hijack is not chronological.
>>0x000001
> How many people understand the original post hijacking I wonder...
> https://board.goeshard.org/thread/euukantiporn-dsa/
> It's actually really helpful to do that if you know how to do it.
> EDIT: if you don't know
> If a thread OP and its thumbnail don't explain and show what a thread is about, someone can hijack the thread by writing a post with a better title, a better thumbnail, and a bettery intro text. And if they do it right, I will give them the hijack and put their post at the top.
> Look at the metadata to see the post order after hijack is not chronological.
thank you
Just a catchall thread for
> asking a question
> making a suggestion
> giving feedback on the site.
> reporting some kind of bug
Be sure to read: https://board.goeshard.org/thread/posting-guide/
There seems to be a lot of ALMOST nsfw stuff in a lot of posts.
Would it be better to make a contained (and well moderated) /nsfw/ board? That way it doesn't leak into other boards
>>0x000006
It's better to discuss subjects like this in /meta/, whether you open a new thread or not is up to you.
> There seems to be a lot of ALMOST nsfw stuff in a lot of posts.
If there are specific post that you don't think belong where they are, you can bring it up here.
Without links to specific posts, I can only guess exactly which ones you're talking about. Of course I know that you're not wrong about this. I move threads that are subtle gooner posts to the /trash/ all the time but if there is something I missed or overlooked, you have to specifically point it out.
> Would it be better to make a contained (and well moderated) /nsfw/ board?
I don't think people are posting photos of celebs and drawings of women because they have no dedicated place to post their favorite porn stars getting double penetrated. Again, I'm having to guess what you're talking about here.
>>0x000007
> specific posts
https://board.goeshard.org/thread/stephanie-priscilla/
This is the only thread that is "almost nsfw" but it's also the best thread on the site. So why would you move it to a space for porn when there is a lot to like about it.
https://board.goeshard.org/thread/vintage-girl/
This thread is the one I would be most embarassed if someone saw me looking at it. But... feels like a me thing because I can't really explain why in a way that makes sense.
https://board.goeshard.org/thread/cyberpunk/#0x000041
The image on this post is fine, but the text is a bit annoying. Not a huge deal. Feels more annoying to complain about it than the post itself.
Other than that, there isn't really anything.
> nsfw
means "not safe for work", I don't know about you but I would not look at this site at work. One day there was a thread of AI generated dicks on /main/ for several hours until Nobo removed them.
I like that someone cleans it up and I come back later to things looking nice and organized. But anything could happen here.
> I can't really explain why in a way that makes sense
it is because you are not gay
I know you said before that I could, plus I'm going to have my own real web page for my articles soon.
>>0x000002
> What are you changing it to?
Opus
It's easier to say, more memorable. I also got the website address https://opus.nekoweb.org
>>0x000005
Yeah I am second guessing if I should stay on nekoweb.
The people on the Discord are so annoying.
I wanted to try out the simplicty of having just two boards, /main/ and /trash/. I thought it would make posting about any subject really simple. But it didn't really have that effect.
Maybe signaling to visitors what to post about is the way to go. So we have a bunch of boards again.
Remember, if you want to disable visibility of any board, you can do so under:
Menu > Board Display Options
https://board.goeshard.org/user/options/board/
You need an account though.
>>0x000003
> The sage option is broken now since you added new boards.
ah, good call. I have a bunch of things I want to fix all at once. I'll eventually get to it.
I've been draining too much time into this board lately though so no ETA on that.
