So the recent downtime has shown us the importance of having a backup site and the importance of informing our users about it. Bunkerchan did its work but pretty much everybody who uses it can agree its ugly and many were turned off by it, we are going to do something about that.
How many of you didn't know about bunkerchan or were unable to properly locate the site? What will you add or change to bunkerchan or any other backup site me make? What can we do to make the migration smooth and fast as possible?
I can't even click on the post button half the time because the quick reply box is too far down the screen and having to change it constantly is a kick in the dick
Robert Nelson
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Jason Gray
The post box thing is on the backlog, does this happen when you upload loads of files or always (IE your screen has a low resolution/youre zoomed in). Can you provide a screenshot? It would help tremendously.
Jeremiah Peterson
Ahhh it seems to be alright again maybe it's an on and off thing or just me anyways I just prefer the more simplistic layout here that's all.
Juan Stewart
I admit I'm a dumb piece of shit, and am lucky that I read through the sticky only the day before the downtime. Nothing. I have no gripes with Bunkerchan's layout, in fact, getting on that dark homepage and hearing that music play was the coziest moment of the day. All I can think of is adding an FAQ for newfags, or making a /his/, but I think that's already done with /dprk/ and two fucking boards for leftism(/left/ and now Holla Forums, /left/ already has a lot of content on it, all you gotta do is transport the layout) Have a userbase that can read next time. Having a sticky is probably the best we can do.
Jason Gonzalez
Anyone stayed on GETchan instead? Would you say it's a better board to stay on than Bunkerchan? How dead is it?
Ryder Torres
Could locate bunkerchan, didn't know what the fuck was going on with the board names and closed the window after not locating the expand button.
Josiah Bell
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Easton Peterson
Well if you see it again please make some screenshot and describe what happened. We wouldn't want that issue to happen. You can post them on the meta board if you like.
Ryan Gonzalez
Well now that it have the dark theme at least it isn't ugly anymore. Although I can't change the theme on the Holla Forums board over there for some reason.
Charles Roberts
The only problem I have with bunkerchan is the captcha and that there isn't a return button at the bottom of the page.
Landon Williams
There hasn't been a captcha since last night
Ethan Edwards
SASUGA CODEMONKEY The board salt has changed. Hence why my trip isn't right.
Nicholas Perry
delete bunkerchan's Holla Forums board, just /left/ will do expand its staff team with the Holla Forums staff
Logan Harris
I thought it was okay when switching to Yotsuba B style. There are still some minor design issues with the site but otherwise I thought it wasn't too bad. Unfortunately it seemed like many didn't know/care enough to post on there.
James Price
Having a random board would be nice.
Brandon Long
I like GETchan.
Ryan Brooks
that's /dprk/
Daniel Bennett
That's another issue with bunkerchan, all the boards have confusing names
Mason Gomez
Bunker should be more than backup. Bunker should be vanguard.
Brody Nelson
Lurk for a day and it won't be confusing anymore
Carter Walker
I suspect having a left-only board is an error. Boards should have general interests, and it's the userbase the one that should be left, otherwise it will only be a fringe forum, and TBH, we already have a bunch of lefty forums on the internet.
Leo Collins
This is truth Bunkerchan has a sister site, spacechan but it suffers from the same design issues There is also GETchan
Sebastian Gutierrez
Or don't drive away the majority of your users due to none of them having any idea what they're looking at.
420chan is a little dead, but I used to like it and think we should try and crosspost more just for the sake of keeping it alive.
Thomas Rodriguez
Get rid of all the boards on bunkerchan. We only need one. With several boards it is harder for the site to gain steam because everything feels slow and not everyone uses or likes the overboard.
Angel Phillips
It's still around. I go there for hentai game discussion.
Justin Morris
This tbh. also, anyone who can't into reading sticky doesn't seem to be able to read a book, soo I don't really believe that losing people like this would do us harm
Levi Long
For now, this. The moment that board is active, we can do others.
Kevin King
Honestly, I say we should "improve" bunkerchan but that doesnt really mean much to me. It's about on-par with other chans. People are just stubborn as fuck and dont want to leave their Holla Forumsyp infested pedoboard.
Jaxon Scott
I think it's best to have just one backup so we don't scatter in the wind, I saw Holla Forums users on many chans while it was down. This one backup would be bunkerchan ofcourse.
IMO bunkerchan should have just one board for the time being (if we ever get purged we can expand it)
Brayden Carter
I agree with this.
James Miller
Actually, on second thought, it should have two boards. One that's expected to be at least semi-serious, and another for random off topic bullshit.
So I guess /left/ and Holla Forums
Brody King
Yeah this tbh but leave the meta board up for complaints
Colton Davis
nah, just make it a sticky like we do here
Benjamin Harris
This related to the complain that bunkerchan is too fringe We only need on political board and the rest are just add ons for fellow travelers.
Owen Foster
Went to bunkerchan The interface is so fucking unbearable I decided to just wait it out. Seriously, they need to fix their shit
Cameron Miller
This, the dumb board names and the lack of them being explained anywhere splits the tiny userbase when it is actually needed to be used as a bunker. I'd like to see the logs with all but the last 4 digits of the IPs redacted so we can see just how many people quit the board almost immediately after arriving.
Brayden Wilson
You forgot your flag Last four digits redacted still makes a lot of IP visible.
Gabriel Clark
Well since it's text put it in wordpad and find and replace them all with random names.
Colton Thomas
make the layout like how 8/lefty is by default. yotsuba or whatever
Grayson Cruz
I'm not removing boards.
Carson Evans
hey lad you should definately come on the irc soon (or follow me back in twatter so i can pm you), ive got some issues with setting up the site on my site for testing.
Also got some general questions, and StephenLynch told me to tell you to update the backend as youre 6 versions behind.
David Price
*side ignore my non-anglo butchery of your language
Asher Reed
/left/ and /dprk/ are all we need though
Jason Cooper
Then stay irrelevant.
Angel Adams
8ch layout is fine, just keep it similar to it and stop trying to add or change shit. I also won't be leaving Holla Forums, but I post on bunker sporadically.
Nathaniel Howard
These issues are annoying
Austin Baker
Will you guys mind answering some question about a new site project
Michael Ortiz
having /anarcho/ and /marx/ and so on here hasn't made much of a dent.
Caleb Myers
An imageboard.
I want the same features and look as Holla Forums and 4chan.
Activity and a non-shit interface.
Noah Cooper
It's still alive even though it's slower than before. Their Holla Forums board is surprisingly okay. The discussions are way too focused on American politics and the majority of posters are liberals, but people are more relaxed, open to different opinions and behaving like a meme-spouting alt-right teen is frowned upon. I wish 4/pol/ was more like this. It's still worth browsing it just for /del/ and the BWH threads tbh.
Grayson Perez
I never have heard of Bunker chan. Aside of the song in the main page, I have nothing against the website.
I would make the song be in 50% of the volume and with the possibility to play/stop and change the volume. Also, the quick reply is a pain in the ass.
I have no idea about the migration. =\
Jordan Price
me, i started coming here after newyears
i don't know
i don't know, maybe have a sticky with alternative sites
Juan Hill
thanks mod
Henry Peterson
We don't need a sticky about this.
Caleb Russell
me get rid of the stupid music and make it all around less autistic not sure
Adam Powell
this guy is right.
Michael Martin
you lads need to calm down lol
Jace Hall
bunkerchan should have 4 boards. Holla Forums (obviously) Holla Forums because we like to shitpost and porn too. maybe a Holla Forums and Holla Forums too.
thats the minimum for a good start, you can add more board as the site grow.
Connor Morales
done that's /dprk/ Holla Forums and /e/
the issue is that space can't make board without dumb names
Levi King
Personally I think if we were to migrate we should start a non-explicitly leftist chan but with a "no invasions" rule.
Thomas Howard
i think it should be more friendly and neutral, it shouldn't be focused on communism/lefty. to attract and keep the normies around.
i think raising class awareness is our goal (most of us at least). we can't do that by hiding in a circlejerk. we have to appeal to normies.
Liam Phillips
I agree with all of that, Space just doesn't want to change them.
Aaron Cox
ok i just went there, holly shit!.
step one: remove the fucking music ! FFS step two: change the front page background. go for a light color. black background is eye rape
use only two color theme for boards, blue for SFW and orange/beige (like 4chin) for NSFW/lewd boards
the homepage should be easy to understand and welcoming, i like how you did it, its clean, but you can improve it a bit more by changing the colors.
replace the logo by a funny image that change regularly (daily or weekly or some shit).
imagine that pic related is browsing your website, make her want to stay and come back.
Aiden James
I was there but didn't use it, was a bit busy, and it was real quite.
Probably normal board names, and fewer until their is a large enough user base to implement user made boards: Holla Forums Holla Forums /meta/ would probably be good. I'd get rid of the music too.
This is really the most important though, change the font size to 10pt. Yotsuba + 10pt looks real good.
On the Default the red border around the text boxes should be removed.
Is it not possible to just have Holla Forums redirect? If that's not possible a dedicated sticky just bunkerchan could help. just BREAK IN CASE OF EMERGENCY in big red letters or something.
Isaac Ortiz
The padding on the ID's is way outa hand aswell. I'm not sure it should be there at all.
Xavier Davis
This is pretty much the only way to get your board deleted. I wish the vols/BO/people here would read the fucking global rules and realize the admins stick to them.
Robert Hall
I thought the only rule was no CP, weird. You'd think that they would bend it a bit when the whole site goes to shit anyway. Oh well, I guess the sticky then.
Lucas Richardson
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Bentley Lewis
same tbh fam
Aaron Hall
Bump
Anthony Wilson
Awww didums
Logan Turner
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Connor Fisher
VPN?
Nolan Campbell
the layout and over all setup of the site needs to be fixed. then ill gladly use it
William Green
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Kayden Young
forgot to take of shitposting flag
Tyler Adams
Co-admin right here. Regarding the recent talk of a potential migration, if you guys want to come on over, I'm fine with that, and I have talked to the other co-admin about it as well. We don't have much to offer in terms of a userbase, but we can guarantee that we would have a hands-off approach and that everything related to Holla Forums would be in the hands of Holla Forumsetarians. The current mod team would be moved over and would be given full ownership of our Holla Forums board, which would be renamed to Holla Forums, and obviously we would rename the chan itself to not be so /GET/-centric. Any suggestions to help improve the chan would be appreciated.
That being said, I do think that Bunkerchan should come along as well. I think they have valuable coding resources and any little bit of traffic helps. Plus we need a sense of solidarity, meaning that I don't think the question should be "Should Holla Forums move to GETchan or Bunkerchan?", but rather "How can all three come together?" If Holla Forums does decide to leave Holla Forums, which is totally up to you guys, I'm not trying to push things one way or another, then it would have to be thought out and executed carefully as to not split the community, but rather unite three communities.
Regarding being a backup, sure thing. You can come crash on our couch any time. We're comrades, after all.
How about bunkerchan becomes getchan and Space_ does a rebranding giving you guys mod powers. Lynxchan is light years ahead of kusaba
Angel Anderson
Yeah, we've been looking to update our software, but ideally the rebranding would be something more neutral. GETchan sounds too skewed towards our board, when it really should be representative of Holla Forums and Bunkerchan as well.
Juan Stewart
Mass migration right now may not be the best option, but we do need to build an alternative. Holla Forums clearly isn't reliable enough. If we could have a steady community of even 300 or so people on another site, it would be enough for a proper backup. Muke said he'd make a video about bunkerchan, and that would be helpful.
Carson Robinson
not to be a dick but I think bunkerchan is more suitable as a Holla Forums backup
Caleb Morgan
delete /left/ and keep Holla Forums if anything. /letypol/ already has a rep on the internet. I came here after hearing reddit mods shit talk /leftpol/ because I thought it must be good if those faggots didn't like it.