Fresh Start
It has been over five years and almost 6k posts since we had the last fresh start and looking back the archive of old posts has become pretty messy. Many videos got deleted, embedded tweets and songs don’t exist anymore, articles are outdated and some content just isn’t up to par anymore.
So I backed everything up and wiped the plate clean. I know some of you will be sad to see the old content go but I just need this every now and then.
It feels great to start over and do things better. I want to organise the posts more neatly, try some new themes for content and raise the overall quality of the site for you. I’ve got some ideas!
This also gives me the opportunity to post some of the best stuff again that accumulated over time, so the folks who haven’t seen it when it was published years ago get a chance to enjoy it too.
I’ll stick to the schedule of seven posts per day generally but will probably post a bit more than that for a while to bring back the best of the old content on top of the regular posts. I’ll also make sure to get all supporter posts back on in a timely fashion.
Old Look
I’d love to have a new design for the site ready for this occasion but the theme I’m currently toying with is not the easiest to get to work the way I’d like it to. I might figure it out and get it online or look for something else, we’ll see.
If you have issues with the current design, especially when it comes to accessibility (for example things being hard to read or use) please let me know so I get an idea which areas to pay extra attention to when picking or modifying a new design!
More Chill
I was trying to figure out what to do with the comment section for literal years now. I don’t mind people having different opinions than the majority of this site’s audience (hey horselips) or expressing themselves in a creative way (hey copycat)…
…but when people use the comments for personal attacks because they generally dislike the person they’re replying to or to outright insult the person in a picture for their choice of hairstyle, tattoos, lack or existence of foreskin or whatever else… no one leaves happier.
I don’t want to turn off comments, I feel like we’d miss out on too many good, helpful and funny comments but on the other hand I also don’t want to deal with the kind of negativity anymore that toxic comments spark.
I’ll turn on comment moderation for now and see how that goes but that is not supposed to be a long-term solution. If you have any suggestions on how to better deal with this, do let me know!
All right, that’s all for now, have a great new year everyone and thank you heaps for being such a loyal and supportive community <3