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It definitely looks and feels nicer, and there are a lot of nice new features esp. notifications, well done. I also like the dark theme.

It's a bit disappointing to learn that the moderator discord is getting notified for every post, since you'd be using that as a primary interface rather than directly visiting the site, right? The right solution to this would be (imo) to improve the recent posts listing on the front page (and perhaps enable notifications there too?), but that feature was taken away instead.

I also don't understand what the settings do in pic related.

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There's also something going wrong on the right of the post info here.

>>269
>well done
thank you, I really appreciate it! :)
>you'd be using that as a primary interface rather than directly visiting the site, right?
actually, the notifications are quite barebones for this exact reason. I put a lot of effort into making the site look and work nicely, so even though moderators comprise just a couple of the site's users, I don't want them to experience it primarily through offisite notifications. the notifications do not include enough info to replace the site; they're very short text snippets (less than 1 sentence) with a link to the post. and while the site is still small and relatively slow, getting notified for every post instead of just for reports can really help us catch things faster. but yeah, with enough activity, it would become obsolete as a moderation tool compared to report notifications.

>The right solution to this would be (imo) to improve the recent posts listing on the front page (and perhaps enable notifications there too?), but that feature was taken away instead.
the new homepage doesn't show every new post and image like the old site, true - this homepage is based on the stock jschan one, so it would've been a bit involved to fully recreate the vichan one. this homepage does have a new feature in the same vein though, a "hot threads" section which shows the threads that are getting the most posts lately. it hasn't shown up yet because the migration is still quite fresh, but I suspect it'll appear soon.
still, I hear you. I'll keep an eye on how people feel about the homepage. m(_ _)m
as for how this relates to moderation - the mods do have access to an on-site post feed, but this isn't really a replacement for a truly automatic notification system. the goal is to make it so that moderators don't have to be glued to their PCs/phones (constantly looking at the mod panel feed) in order to have a decent response time.

>I also don't understand what the settings do in pic related.
these "settings" get populated as you use certain features. you probably wouldn't ever manually fill them out, but you could copy them from one device to another so that you don't lose your locally-stored data:
- (You)s holds the post IDs that (You) posted
- watchlist is the thread IDs that you're watching
- hidden images are images that you've clicked [Hide] on
- cache is used to keep track of certain data that's loaded by clientside javascript - for example, if you hover over a cross-board link, the site will download and cache the contents of the quoted post so that it can be displayed quickly if you hover over the link again

>>270
mm, darn, this is a bug I was seeing too. it's an issue with the post menu js not working quite right. if you clear your local storage/cookies for the site and then hard refresh (ctrl+shift+r), I think it should go away?
hopefully it doesn't affect all the new users, though! didn't expect the typical user to encounter it, since it only showed up late into testing for me when I had messed with my browser data a lot already. maybe it's related to the fresh transition and old site data for the domain being left in users' browsers

>>272
Cool, that fixed it. I also found I was unable to save most settings except for theme, but after clearing cookies/site data it works properly.

>>271
>this homepage is based on the stock jschan one, so it would've been a bit involved to fully recreate the vichan one. this homepage does have a new feature in the same vein though
I actually didn't realise you changed imageboard software, so yeah maybe that feature will be better. I guess it's a good sign that it felt like things were only being added/improved aside from that part of the homepage.

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first post on the new marzi

>>274
IT'S THE FIRST MARZITAN ON THE MOON!!! :^O awesome!!

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>>274
huh, the stars don't show in the replay, that's an odd quirk

>>276
somehow the stars were there from the fill bucket alone

So it was that...
How much of an ordeal was porting the post database from vi to js, if I may ask?

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>>278
>How much of an ordeal was porting the post database from vi to js, if I may ask?
it was pretty involved :^p
of all the tasks involved in the overhaul, writing and testing the migration tool probably took the longest. as far as I know, I'm the first person to do this! you can view it on the site's github repo, released under the AGPL-3: https://github.com/Marzisoft/jschan/blob/main/tools/vichan_import.js

the tool is fairly rough and doesn't handle every feature or edge case - given that it's already served its purpose for marzichan, I don't have any plans to develop it further right now, but it should be a pretty useful foundation for other sites that might be looking to migrate. you can read the comments inside the file for some basic instructions, disclaimers, known gaps in functionality, etc.

>>279
>it was pretty involved :^p
Yeah, I figured.... Since most would be content with a "fuck it, fresh start" and wiping everything out when switching board software.
Kudos on the elbow grease and how it all seems to have worked out!

>>283
>Kudos on the elbow grease and how it all seems to have worked out!
thanks! I've been able to contribute several fixes back upstream to jschan as well, which has been very gratifying :D

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>>267 (OP) 
really enjoy the new look! kudos for managing to port everything over while moving to a new engine, i know all too well how much of a pain that can be.
in any case i hope this site continues to grow... it's really nice!

>>302
aw, thanks so much!! I wasn't expecting you to visit today :D
>i know all too well how much of a pain that can be.
yeah, I remember reading how wapchan used to run on lynxchan before switching to vichan. I had actually started messing around with lynxchan myself before I looked into jschan more and decided it was the way to go!
do you mind if I ask what motivated the switch? I don't think I ever used the site back when it was running lynxchan
>in any case i hope this site continues to grow... it's really nice!
us too! you're too kind :)
wapchan is already much faster and larger than us, so I know you don't need my encouragement, but I hope you guys can keep healthily growing too <3