Boyah 2.0 Referendum: Themes

[Kalahari Inkantation]

There's a lot of posts with terms I also wish I hadn't used ironically in the past

me2

it sounds like many of us have posts we're quite ashamed of today, the problem is:

1. how exactly do we even find those posts among thousands or even tens of thousands of posts per user

2. deciding what to do with them in case we make it past concern 1

3. deciding what qualifies as reasonable or unreasonable shame, or what posts have historic value regardless of their awfulness, etc.

[Daddy]

tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

Initially they were intended to be a word filter to stop having people use them but I eventually realized we can't exactly remove the content now because the words will show up in all the posts where people typed it

tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

me2

it sounds like many of us have posts we're quite ashamed of today, the problem is:

1. how exactly do we even find those posts among thousands of even tens of thousands of posts per user

2. deciding what to do with them in case we make it past concern 1

3. deciding what qualifies as reasonable or unreasonable shame, or what posts have historic value regardless of their awfulness, etc.

i could technically probably script up a way to pull a list of which words users want removed from their history by querying each post

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i feel like a project like this would require far more finesse than a word filtering script alone could offer, although a script could certainly be used to facilitate things

[Kalahari Inkantation]

...at the same time, i'm not even sure we'd need a dedicated script when we do have the search feature lol

[Daddy]

...at the same time, i'm not even sure we'd need a dedicated script when we do have the search feature lol

search is incredibly slow

i've tried

[Kalahari Inkantation]

that it is

i also don't think it always catches every instance of every query

[Kalahari Inkantation]

tbf that means nobody can actually post the word without extra effort

Initially they were intended to be a word filter to stop having people use them

i love just how badly this strategy backfired for the filter lmao

[Samus Aran]

I'm all for starting over. I'd love to abandon some of all that past shit, plus it would give us a better idea of where we stand now and who all is left. Plus, 2.0.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i am wholly opposed to starting over from zero, that's just way too dramatic a solution to what's practically a non-problem

there is simply far too much history over the course of boyah's RICH ELEVEN-YEAR EXISTENCE for starting over from scratch now while activity is at its absolute lowest to make any sense

we can brainstorm on strategies to do some spring cleaning in preparation for the move but i will fervently resist any serious campaign to begin anew

you can't throw over 1.5 million babbies out with a thimbleful of bathwater

[don't let's]

I was just joking

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i know you were but it seems like quite a few boyagers actually wouldn't mind

[Samus Aran]

drastic measures always sound good to my dramatic idiot brain

[Kalahari Inkantation]

imo a good 25% of the fun of boyah is looking back and laughing at absurd old posts and reviving long-dead topics with new perspectives lol

but maybe that's just me idk

[Mando Pandango]

as i've said, i'm ok with tactlessness to a point, so i'm fine with keeping everything in place right now

i actually fear change in this instance. if i could make boyah look exactly the same but function better and load faster, i'd be so happy

[Kalahari Inkantation]

as i've said, i'm ok with tactlessness to a point, so i'm fine with keeping everything in place right now

i actually fear change in this instance. if i could make boyah look exactly the same but function better and load faster, i'd be so happy

yes i overwhelmingly agree with this