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@BlindRawFucker has been my guide on a lot of accessibility issues for visual impairment. It was my understanding that the issue is contrast and white on black is as constrasty as black on white. This theme has no transparency, and that's another thing that is supposed to make things better. Which theme are you using?
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Not easily, no.
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That's been the case for a couple years now. On top of that – Raunchy Fuckers is about to get moved. All the commercial content will move to bbbh.com late summer / early fall but I've had a lawyer say the amateur stuff can't be moved, so that will stay up for a bit longer and then eventually go away. However, bbbh.men (once developed) will allow guys to upload their personal videos, and s3x.social (once developed) will allow guys to share videos they like (within legal limits).
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Once upon a time there was a good member here known as GoodExercise. But the last few months he sorta went off the deep end and became disruptive to the community. He started multiple accounts and became a moderator's nightmare. As a result, I've deleted all of his accounts. It's sad. He was a good member at one time. We tried to be patient with him since he had been a good member, but enough is enough.
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The clubs feature is now gone – for a number of reasons including people abusing it to post stuff that is redundant or otherwise not allowed on the site (or not allowed in public parts of the site), and more importantly because the idiot developer didn't give me a way to delete groups that had been created. So no moderation tools for clubs = no clubs.
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I'm not sure. But a moderator can do it for you if you ask nicely
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No groups should be overtly about PNP or other back room topics. If you happen to have a private, invite-only group and things other than sex happen at your events – that's one thing. But if you start a public discussion of a backroom topic, you'll get a hefty infraction like you would if you did it in a public forum. And remember – coordination of illegal activity is also prohibited on the site. Plus, it's just stupid to post about your illegal activity on a public forum that keeps all your comments available for posterity.
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If you've been around here a long time you'll remember the "groups" feature that was here for a while a number of years back. That was buggy and not well supported, so it went away. Well, a new version of that is back… It's called "Clubs". Basically the idea is you can start a club that's a targeted group of people. Could be invite-only for you and your local fuck buds to plan sex parties, etc. Or it could be publicly visible and aimed at people into particular fetishes. All I ask is that you not duplicate communities of interest that already have defined areas on the site. So if you create a public group for people to discuss sex in NYC – that's redundant and will be deleted. But you create a private group for a group of NYC-based fuck buddies – that's fine. If you created a group for piss pigs – that will be deleted because it's redundant. If you create one for nudists who want to discuss nude beaches around the world – that's not already covered, so completely fine. Let me know what you think of it and if you have any problems. Honestly I don't know that much about how it works, but I'll try to help as I can.
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Those upgrades are done. The theme that used to be default now blends to gray at the bottom, so I've kept the non-transparent theme as default until I figure out how to turn that off. [The option to switch themes is at the bottom of the page.]
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There were updates to both themes today, so I'll be implementing those in a moment. So the upgrades continue. Hopefully you guys won't notice any issues.
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All the background processes are done. I got the "compatible" theme working (as far as I can tell), so it's now the default theme for the site and the non-compatible one has been disabled (it will return when a compatible version of it is available). Please report any errors – in detail. (I can't fix things unless I know they're a problem).
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I just did an upgrade to the site. While it wasn't a major upgrade, it wasn't minor either (I upgraded from IPB 4.1.19 to 4.2.1). There are some background functions that need to complete before all the functionality is fully back to how it should be. That could take a number of hours still. Reindexing of posts is only at 11%, and it's not the only thing that's getting reindexed. That's on the back end. On the front end there are two themes I use for the site. The default theme is not fully compatible with the new backend version. When I upgraded the other theme to a new version that was "compatible" it was a complete mess. I suspect that the reason is that my CDN is serving files from the old version that are cached and the mix is what creates a huge mess. I'll try again to get that theme working in the morning (maybe tonight before I go to bed). Hopefully things will have aged out of the cache by that time. Once that theme is working I'll make it the default theme (since it's supposed to be compatible) and disable the other theme until a compatible version of it is available. So the TL;DR version is 1) be patient – background processing will take a few more hours, and 2) hopefully appearance issues will get cleaned up tomorow (or earlier). In the mean time things should more-or-less work, but they may not be pretty. If you guys wanna list particular error messages that you encounter, that would give me a list of things to test. And please describe what platform & browser you're on and what you were doing when you encountered the error.
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You wouldn't believe how many times I've heard people say "It doesn't work" without them specifying what doesn't work. A full error message is manna from heaven
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Sorry about that. It's fixed. And that was the perfect error report. I knew exactly what to fix!
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I've been working behind the scenes on making it so people can enter personal details. I figured if I did it, I might as well do more than the few details that are required for chat. At the bottom of the chat page there's now a link to a page where you can update your details. I'm away in DC for Pride starting tomorrow. When I get back I'll take the next step and then those details will start showing up under the person's avatar in chat. But if you look at the list of things you can enter it's pretty exhaustive. It should be obvious that this is bigger than chat. –that my end goal is really to have full-fledged hookup sites. Given the architecture of what I'm building, details about you as a person are on one input form, and the persona you're projecting are on another input form. But even the chat - the reason why it doesn't look like the old chat, is because I was building something bigger than chat. It's the structure for a messaging system. It's a forum thread. It's a social site (like Twitter or Tumblr). There a lot of details to work out for each of those, but I'm trying to build things that are flexible and reusable in other contexts. This should be an exciting year if I can just get the programming completed…
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That is my goal. But gotta take one step at a time. But you'll see the beginnings of that pretty soon. I want to show the location for each user. Initially I'll just use whatever location they've entered here on the forum, but then I'll give them the ability to specify a lat/long. I won't show the exact lat/long – just use it to show "miles away", and I'll use it to do a lookup to find neighborhoods / cities near them. They'll choose one and that will be stored. Those neighborhoods are part of a huge place database. So if I say I'm in Mount Morris Park that's part of a hierarchy of places. So Mount Morris Park is part of Central Harlem, which is part of Upper Manhattan, which is part of New York County, which is part of New York State, which is part of the US. So people can browse the hierarchy once you pick a place on that hierarchy. I'll let you specify multiple places. So someone might say they live in Manhattan, but they spend weekends in the summer out in The Pines on Fire Island. Or you could specify a location for a trip you're planning, or a place you get to frequently on business (even if you don't know the dates yet). So yes, I absolutely want to do more hookup-oriented features.
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"Traditional chat window" – You mean one where all the messages are in a static pane with a scroll bar? That doesn't really work on mobile and about half the people here are on mobile. That whole interface came from the days when chat was powered by Flash which required a static box/window/frame (whatever you want to call it). But Flash is dead, and mobile is the future, so things have to adapt.
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Another update… To me the biggest issue is that there aren't enough people in chat. So I've now changed things so the number of people in chat shows next to the link to chat. It takes a moment to load, but it does eventually come up. Hopefully that will help attract people to chat. Apparently the chat is so similar to what you have in the main forums some people initially think it's just another forum and not a live chat. Not sure what to do about that. I mean it's clearly marked Chat. Next, I'm noticing people don't understand the idea of quoted replies. They're putting their response within the quote portion. Or they don't add any response – they just have the quoted portion. I'll keep trying different things until I see that stop. And lastly, I'm still working on adding new features.
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No comments in almost 2 days. I suppose that's a good thing. Here's what I'm working on… 1-on-1 Chat – I moved a bunch of code around yesterday (and messed up chat for a half hour or so in the process), so that group chat can share code with 1-on-1. That means when something is fixed or implemented in one, it will probably be implemented in the other. I also more or less figured out how I'll do the "you've got a message" feature. Stats & Location – Under each profile pic / screen name I want to have two lines. One with general stats and the other with location. It'll look something like this… rawTOP 49 ➖ ↗️ ? Harlem, 35 mi. So that 2nd line would read 49, neg, vers top, on PrEP. (The neg emoji would be a fully readable color – not something I can accomplish here). I'll use a biohazard symbol ☣️ for unmedicated poz, and a plus sign ➕ for poz on ARVs, and a grayed out biohazard for poz and unknown whether on ARVs (not something I can show here since it requires CSS). And you'll be able to specify whether certain stats are shown or not. I'm also thinking of letting users specify up to 4 other emoji that describe them or what they're into. So I might add ???? (for piggy, breeding, fisting, bondage). Then I'll also let people specify locations. They will specify a precise location (so I can calculate distances), and then they'll specify a city or well-known neighborhood. The location part will one of the things I need to build for Cumdump.Network (which I hope to have up by end of summer). I actually sorta built a lot of it a couple years ago, but need to rework it for my current programming environment. The stats part will probably get up quickly. The location part will come after 1-on-1 chat.
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A number of improvements were made today. Most notably was quick reply – a separate entry area where you just enter something and hit return. That was high on a lot of people's list. Right now I'm showing both. Tomorrow I'll probably make it so you can toggle between the two. I also improved the Who's In Chat section to break down the people who are active (<5 min) and ones that are semi-inactive (5-15 min). The semi-inactive ones may come back since if you look at another tab in your browser you don't ping the server for updates.
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There's a background process that runs every minute that updates how long ago a remark was made. It also gets kicked off after new comments are written to the page. Odd that it was wrong the first time. It's the same code. But it helps hearing that.
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It polls the server for new messages every 12-45 seconds (12 seconds if it knows someone is typing a response, 25 seconds normally, and 45 if you're the only person in chat). So you shouldn't need to refresh the page. That said, it won't poll for new remarks if the page is not visible. So if you jump to another tab, while you're on that tab chat will not refresh. I've just done two things to make it feel faster. I've dropped the regular refresh from 30 to 25 seconds, and I've implemented a 3 second max refresh when coming back after the tab is hidden. Also really weird that it would show new comments as 20 minutes old. Given time zone issues, time is actually pretty tricky to get right. I give the browser the datetime on the server, and when the page is loaded it determines how much the browser time is off from the server time and then all of that gets used to calculate how long ago a remark was posted. Definitely let me know if you continue to see problems with times.
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If you're on a computer and the fonts are too big, your browser will have the option to make them bigger/smaller (it's command + and command - on the Mac – I assume it's something similar on Windows – all browsers have it so they comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act). On a smart phone it's more complicated. On iPhones i'ts a system setting – which isn't granular enough, I know. But the point in, font size is a personal preference. I did notice that the profile pics were too big when I was on my iPhone. That's been resolved. As far as the placement of the list of who's online – it's just above where you type a reply. That seemed to me to be the most sensible place to put it. From that area you can see 1) new responses, 2) who's typing a reply, and 3) who's online – all things you may want to know as you're typing your own response. If I put things at the top as well that would increase the "jitteriness" of the page when there's an update and the page has to resize to accommodate the new list of who's online. And there is no sidebar because I take a "mobile first" approach to design. So I see more negatives with the other solutions than I see positives.
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There is now the option to play a sound when new messages come in (and turn off said sound). And your sound preference will be observed when you come back the ne Also, the new background for new messages goes black when they come in and then goes back to normal when they're no longer new messages. (It gets a bit confusing when a whole bunch come in at once). So let me know what else you guys want…
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The comment box is now smaller. But it will grow as you type stuff in it. The backgrond image has been "tamed" by putting a mostly opaque color behind the comments. I'll work on sound now. Otherwise, let me know your feedback on how it stands now.
