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>>2424
>2012 + 3
>still doesn't know that the frame bar can be disabled.
Why do you even complain?

>>2426
>>2427
It doens't really matter if you can remove it since going back to homepage resets it back. I'm talking about entirely removing the frame.

>use html5
>still use frames
lel

>>2428
>since going back to homepage resets it back.
omg how terrible…
okay sei, time to change the [news] link in the board index from /gonews.html to /news.html because anon can't do it himself. Fags that still want to use the frames can have them if they access via www.uboachan.net

Sei do something, this is serious.

>>2429
Taihen

Soon.

I'm going to be collaborating with Lainchan's admin (if all works out, in person) to redesign Uboachan. Should be underway around the middle to end of October.

For now however, I have other things I need to be working on, so Uboachan is in a feature freeze.

So, are you asking why uboachan isn't hosting a "newer version" that only has updated text files about information which can easily be found on the wiki?
Not like that is bad or something, but it isn't really a big update either.

Well, no. My version's readme (in the archive with the installer) goes as follows:

>Latest version of the 0.10 English translation as of April 11th, 2008. Fixes one known crash bug as well as various non-critical issues. Saved games from the first installer version are compatible, but saved games from the previous non-installer version and the Japanese version are not. To update the previous installer version, install v3 into the same directory.

Sei do something!

>>2408
Even those have settings somewhere. And even if they don't, uboachan does.

sei do somting

I'm putting a feature freeze on Uboachan until the overhaul starts, because I'm dealing with some time-sensitive IRL shit. I will take all of these feature requests into consideration then. More info on the overhaul soon.

>>2380
Noted, I can see the problem when using one of the new themes. I'll investigate this.

Jesus Christ Seisatsu do something

I don't feel like making a new thread, so here we go:

Apparently, the gif/webm support is broken, at least with files bigger than ～2MB. A post without the file is posted instead, and if there's no body it will just post a blank space.

>>2414
But only for files larger than 2MB? I'll look into it. Maybe it's the PHP configuration or something.

>>2415
It was a simple PHP misconfiguration, I fixed it yesterday.

>>2393
No they don't have the right.

sei do somting

Why isn't Seisatsu doing anything about this? He obviously doesn't care about Ubuu

>>2396
Lol I hate ubuu why do you think I won't put it out of its misery?

Seriously though, I've just been really busy with a bunch of IRL drama and it's been really stressful for the past week or two. I've mostly stabilized the site after the server move, but it looks like there's still a couple kinks to work out. I'll get around to those first.

As for the spam, the bots that are still getting through are tailored specifically to attack the software we're running, so they're a huge pain in the ass. We could try to hire even more Janitors, though I'd like the ones we just hired to get acquainted first. I could also try phrase filters to block the posts, but these are easily thwarted. Captchas are also an option but nobody wants those, right?

Spam is a pain in the ass, you have no idea. There's no golden solution or everyone would be using it.

>>2416
I do appreciate all the work you guys do. And if you do hire more I might actually get around to applying this time.

But have you ever considered a once a day Captcha like 8chn? Cause you're right, nobody wants Captchas.

omg third!
>>2333
dude nice trips

I'm in.

Ask Tohno-chan how they did it iv you haven't already.

Since we have no way to update a sent application, I did another with better details, and my Tripcode. Dunno if that Disqualifies me or not, but yeah.

Applications are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied. Some of you will be contacted shortly.

>>2335
That's a terrible idea anon.

>>2335
No.

ban this anon pls

OP tell your parents they failed.

>>2325
If that person is reading this, I personally don't agree with what most people consider "wrong" either. (if that was the point you were making… Again, I didn't get the chance to read your posts.) To me, if it's love, it's love. I just (as I stated in my post) wondered how it ends. My post wasn't meant to be judgmental, and I apologize if it came off as me trying to make people "confess of their crimes" or whatever. That really wasn't my intention at all.
It would have been nice to have seen your posts and been able to reply to them.

I gotta remind u ladies I got banned for saying there was no evidence of Kikiyama's approval in Project Yume Nikki and now everyone knows I was right.

>>2327
What you meant to say was:
"I got banned for spamming 'fraud'"

>>2328
Fact remains I was right.

It's great to read the spread of different opinions and views on moderation and that thread here. Doing things in a way that everyone can agree with is really hard.

I think the staff will continue to take a hands-off approach to moderation except in extreme circumstances, which I believe yesterday qualified as. We've tried hands-on moderation in the past, and it just created bad feelings all around and made our userbase really uncomfortable.

We allow free speech here – all kinds of free speech, including topics the staff or other users might dislike, in-depth discussion about suicide, and very candid descriptions of drug usage, among other things. We don't judge those kinds of things if we can at all help it.

All we ask is that our users respect the rules which have been laid out to protect them and the site at large from deliberately destructive elements. That seems reasonable to me, and I hope we can all agree that it is.

All we can do is ban them and delete their posts. The filter would inhibit the normal users too much to implement a stricter one. In the past we have polled for the implementation of captchas during the huge CP spam sessions. The community decided that they didn't want captchas.

I'm considering hiring new Janitors if this wave of spam doesn't pass soon. I'd like for us to be catching it faster.

We already have anti-spam measures in place that keep out most bots, but I think some bots nowadays specifically know how Tinyboard/Vichan works, and a few of those float our way sometimes.

I think it would be better to strength those spam measures.

>>2316
This post will be a bit in length.

Our anti-proxy measures are at very full throttle, such that if we turned them up any more there would be risk of blocking legitimate users by mistake. One or two might be blocked once in a while already. These measures block known proxies and bots and "naughty" IP ranges by querying several public real-time intelligence databases that keep track of these things through a number of techniques.

In addition, our new post / new thread forms have several invisible countermeasures designed to trick common and less common bots into revealing themselves and block them from posting. These include extra fields that normal web browsers know to ignore while rendering the page, which look to a bot like they should be filled out and if tripped will block the post, as well as hidden fields with randomized access keys pre-generated into them that will trip the system if they are altered or omitted. Most generalized bots, even many finer-tuned ones, fall prey to these automated defenses, and there are several more active and automated defenses embedded in the Vichan software.

Furthermore the mods rove when they have time and ban bots which I believe have been designed with the specific capabilities to outsmart Vichan's particular automated security measures. These we can do nothing about except to deeply alter the code or to enable captchas, which most people don't have time for or don't want respectively.

The last measure would be to hire Janitors. Unfortunately I have been busy lately, but I am planning and considering a new application process to be started soon if this wave of spam doesn't end, which I don't really expect it to, but I can hope. I'll get around to it when I can. Until then, I trust my staff to keep a watchful eye for the bots that have been bothering us lately.

TL;DR We have been and will continue to be working on it, far beyond what most of the users and the bots are aware of.