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.

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/

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.

I know you said before that I could, plus I'm going to have my own real web page for my articles soon.

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.

Hello. /main/ is where good posts go. If your post is shit, it goes in the /trash/ ... simple right?

Many posts on this board are made by anonymous users, nobody. So if you make a post without registering an account and logging in, that's who you will be. You won't be able to edit or delete anything you post. I mostly have this so that it's easy for a random passerby to try posting on the site.

If you want to have a name that is yours, you can register an account. I recommend not revealing too much personal information if you choose to do this, since this is the Internet.

The benefits of having your own account: you can delete and edit your posts, you don't have to do captchas, you have less cooldown time to wait between posts, and you can use the shorturl service at https://this.goeshard.org

So... What do you think?

https://board.goeshard.org/thread/meta/

You probably noticed already but the future of this site is being a blog on the front page. I built a system where a board post can be attached to a blog post to use the thread as a comment space for the blog.

One problem with that is that if every blog post had its own thread, the board would become filled with unnecessary threads. So this is going to be the default comment thread.

Welcome to the board.

Here is a thread for annoucing new features; feel free to comment.

- added a button on the thread's list view page that lets you sort in reverse. This makes it easier to post to the top of long threads instead of scrolling to the bottom. It will remember your preference for each thread. [picrel]

- hide new posts on the Latest Posts page if the user has hid the thread they are in.

The best time to suggest something for this board is while I'm working on it.

This offer to care about your opinion is limited time.