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It's not just about getting it to work better on mobile, though that is a concern. I want to display more information and I want it built in a way that even more information becomes accessible.
In my daily use of 8chan I am loyal to a select number of boards and I never branch out or explore. This will kill 8chan if it doesn't change, and already stymies a lot of our growth.
The top 3 answers to my poal.me were:
>Server stability and fixing posting errors.
Inherit, primary focus of the software.
>Fix posting nuisances (filesize warning limits, error handling without throwing out uploads, etc)
Very high-level priority for me that I've already taken steps to deal with.
>Increasing traffic to smaller boards and finding new boards to post in.
So this is something very important not only just to me, but to copypaste, and to about half of 8chan's users apparently. The only way I can accomplish this is by changing parts of the layout. We've already done this. Attached is 4chan's current global navigation. copypaste completely threw this out in favor of a design he ripped almost directly from reddit. He had too, because with unlimited boards you can't rely on a link sprawl like that. But, and I don't know about you, I think reddit is a piece of shit -- their navigation included. It doesn't show me what the fuck I need it to.
This is not an unpopular opinion. The top bar has one of the greatest points of contention in the site's history. It unfairly gives top boards visibility over smaller boards, and most people constrain themselves to the few lords that are in the top roster -- with limited exception. It's a great struggle for a tiny board to climb up the rungs, but when it does, it shoots up. /cow/ was dead for months until copypaste raised the max board count from 10 to 20. When it got up there, it stayed there.
So, what needs to happen is a way for tiny communities to get exposed. Boards 5~20 of the top 20 should be changing and switching places every day IMO. This new navigation is how I want to encourage board travel. If you want to look through boards, you have to pop open the flyout for boards. If you do that, your favorites are immediately accessible, the top boards are right there, and the recently active boards are next to it. This works great IMO because, unlike with "random", you are never taken to a dead board. That board literally just had some activity, so you know for sure there's someone to talk to in that community. If you're board it'll be right in your face begging to be looked at.
This is what I mean. if you want cool stuff, you have to be ready for change. I can't get this kind of thing working without revamping some of the design.
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