I just changed the number of threads per page on the overview list from 50 to 200 and from 30 to 200 on /show/, /fap/, /gg/ and /swf/. What do you think? I figured this will make people more likely to discuss older flashes since they might not feel as old anymore (they are on the first page after all) and it helps to discover them to begin with since most people don't even contemplate traversing that dark abyss we call the second page.

I do feel like having a single page like on /f/ is the way to go with posting flash content. The advantage /f/ has is that you can see everything on the board in one screen without having to scroll or change pages; here instead of people not contemplating about going to the second page, they just won't think about scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page, I know I don't when I visit now-a-days.

In effect it made people with taller screens see more and that's about it. They still won't discuss content they have no interest in, however they might see content they like which they could have otherwise missed.

The problem you're trying to fix is that

1: your boards either don't get very much traffic or almost everyone lurks. The amount of replies I see on each flash reminds me of how it was a few years ago on /f/, where maybe they'd get 1 and sometimes even 4, and once in a long while there's a flash that gets 100's of replies. I think there isn't enough people on your boards since it is overshadowed by the rest of swfchan.

2: People don't want to discuss flashes they have no interest in. Someone may post something, but nobody will comment about it.

I have an idea that you might want to implement, which I don't think has been tried on any board before.

Keep the one-page idea and on boards that post flashes and simply display the threads in random order. That way the user might find something they wouldn't have seen otherwise and potentially could have them scroll to the bottom, if what they are looking for is not at the top. Since your boards use a health system for deletion of threads, the bump order doesn't have to be consistent for all users.

I'm not actually sure if that would be too resource intensive or if you could have the randomization done clientside somehow -- I know next to nothing about making a webpage.

P.S. I just saw the hovertext for the email field, is that enforced or is it just a tip for privacy?

>reminds me of how it was a few years ago on /f/
That's modest, to me it feels like swfchan.org still isn't half as active as /f/ was ten years ago! I'm pretty happy that people have started using the board as of late though so no complaints here.

>hovertext for the email field, is that enforced or is it just a tip for privacy?
It's a trap for the many spam bots that crawl the Internet, they always put an e-mail address into any mail field they encounter so the system just needs to refuse any post with @ in the mail field and the spam won't take any additional resources from the server. So yes it's enforced but the increased privacy is a bonus to the spam filter.

>Kinda feeling already that random thread order is a bit annoying
I guess on the overview you might wade through content which you don't even want to see, like many of the 'spam' threads on disc. I still like it, but I agree that it probably shouldn't be default, maybe an option for both on other boards would be good.

I don't know if you can but maybe you could track how many times each button is pressed and compare that to the number of people who visit the boards to see how often it's used.

I was wondering how you achieved it, probably a random order on the server and it would make a new random order every day or something?

>maybe you could track how many times each button is pressed
I could but I don't reckon its worth the trouble to set it up. I know analytics are popular these days for everything but meh.

>I was wondering how you achieved it
The front page is rebuilt every time someone makes a post, so the random order stays the same while .org is idle. First the normal front index pages are built as usual and then all the flash threads are swapped around and the random index pages are built.

Threads are now always listed in the correct order. Instead of there being both a random and normal list there's now a section below the one and only list with a couple of random threads.

The recommendations from the main archive that used to be shown on the .net front page have been merged into the bottom of the overview page. Until further notice the .net front page simply redirects to the overview page.

Random threads and recommendations do not show up on page 2+ of the overview. It's now also possible to access the boards quickly by typing for example swfchan.com/fap in your browser's address bar and you'll be redirected to the correct URL.

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Maybe this will give recommendations more visibility. I barely looked at them regularly before.