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Welcome!
This site may still have issues. Please be patient while I figure everything out.
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Welcome!
This site may still have issues. Please be patient while I figure everything out.
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> using wakaba
> not using http://git.picochanwvqfa2xsrfzlul4x4aqtog2eljll5qnj5iagpbhx2vmfqnid.onion/picochan/ insteadwhy?
I am just worried because the wakaba software is very old.
I looked into some of the older IB software a few years ago I know for a fact that, for example, two other old imageboard softwares kusaba and kusaba-X have issues (likely even security related ones) The reason why I linked the picochan git repo is that the code is easy to understand, the software is lightweight and it is actively maintained.
I hope you enable a JSON API at some point.
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Finally got the front page done for now, at least until I can think of more stuff to add.
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The otters of the world map is a huge asset (3.58 MB) to have on the front page: sluggish load time and uses weloveotters.com's bandwidth. You could host a smaller map which could be clicked for full size. Here's a more reasonable size while still being legible.
<a target="_blank" href="https://weloveotterscom.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/otters-of-the-world-map.jpg">
<img id="ottmap" src="ottmap.jpg" width="80%" height="auto">
</a>
It's good, other than that. ~7 seconds for the otter board. ~7 seconds for the front page, excluding the ottmap. ~19 seconds for the ottmap. Almost triple the load time dedicated to a single asset is bad, but much worse design exists on the web. Wakaba is nice, I like it a lot more than LynxChan.
We're now self-hosting a WebP version of this pic that cut the size down from 4M to around 200K. Ran some tests and it seems the average load speed is between 1 and 3 seconds, which is certainly acceptable.Where are you located, if you don't mind me asking? Our servers are in Singapore, so anons that are further away might be more on the slow end. Although 7 seconds sounds pretty bad anyhow. Could it be your connection isn't that great?
It's a shame to see one of the original boards leave but glad you guys have a site of your own to call home. Wish you anons all the best.
How easy was it to set up the site? I would love to have my own website to host my board but unfortunately I'm a retard when it comes to tech and struggle to set up a database let alone get vichan working.
It's doable even with little experience. You'll need your server, put something like CentOS or Ubuntu on it, then install and set up a database and whatever dependencies the imageboard software you're using requires, and finally get the IB itself running. That's the gist of the process, and the details may vary depending on what you want to use. You'll likely run into situations where you need to figure out something for yourself, or where something's not working even though you think it should. Those are the most challenging bits but they can be overcome. For the most part it's a matter of looking up online guides and following them.
I got rid of the silly side menu. Also, your CSS setting will now apply to the front page.
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Oh won't you let me bump this thread
Is it possible to make it so that files can be posted multiple times on the site? I only have so many otter pictures, and it seems like they can only be posted once each
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Fixed what was stopping threads from bumping. It was something stupid and it's gone.
Which CSS theme do you guys prefer? Rakko is easy on the eyes especially in the dark, but Kawauso is nice during daylight.
How would you guys think about hosting other animal/nature themed boards here?
I would always be in favour of a wolf board, and other mustelids of course, but I do think otters are discerning by nature and very selective about the kinds of habitats they grace with their presence, so we would need to keep it somewhat exclusive or the otters might leavee. That said, otters are happiest in a diverse ecosystem so perhaps it's best to allow it to evolve naturally.
I wouldn't necessarily be against it, though I would wonder if there is a legitimate demand, and if so, what other boards would come up. I can't think of any specific boards that I wouldn't want on otterchan as of now, though I would have a concern that it would become less "otterchan" and more "general-naturechan" if that makes any sense
At the moment the site isn't set up to handle multiple boards. If you wanna talk about other mustelids you can just do that here.
Not much of a complaint or issue related post, but this board looks to be pretty successful!
also. testing sage.
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Related to >>530 (ext)
If you want to eventually toy with rotating banners at some point, you could check out the wakaba repo of emmausrs or lisanyan and see how they do it.
https://github.com/emmausrs/Wakaba/commit/22a80d108fda6b3142ce8dc4a7ab53b407f9a2ae
https://github.com/lisanyan/wakaba/blob/master/lib/futaba_style.pl
I'd help a bit more if I had some sort of experience with Wakaba/IBs (or CSS in general. (and maybe Perl if I feel like hurting myself))
Thanks! I might try doing it this way. Although apparently there is a way to do rotating banners natively, using some manner of Perl script file.
# Page look
use constant TITLE => 'Otterchan'; # Name of this image board
use constant SHOWTITLETXT => 0; # Show TITLE at top (1: yes 0: no)
use constant SHOWTITLEIMG => 1; # Show image at top (0: no, 1: single, 2: rotating)
use constant TITLEIMG => 'logo.png'; # Title image (point to a script file if rotating)
All I could find about it was this thread from 2004: https://archives.4-ch.net/tech/kareha.pl/1102969545/ which hasn't enlightened me just yet... Oh well, I kinda like it the way it is. Maybe we can find another use for these cool banners that otteranon made.
I don't get why in 20+ years of imageboards nobody ever thought of using them for otters until now.
Let me try this out
Loving the logo up top! Keep up the good work Otterchan owner!
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and that's #600. Hooray!
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>>623 Ottmin sounds great :D
>>564 Aah I haven't noticed it at first. That looks a bit easier to deal with. It is a shame that documentation is so scarce thought.My first guess would be to make a tiny script that will look into a folder, pick a random picture and return the name (+ .jpg) of it. (I imagine the rest of the code outside the script will know where to look to get that picture.)
Then point TITLEIMG to that script. That script should return '[name].[ext]' and that should be fine? This is from other experience in c/c++ so idk if my logic work 'w`.>>558 You are right otternon, He should get some rest soon. =w=
I HAVE A LARGE LIST OF GRIEVANCES THAT YOU OTTER FIX
Things are happening.
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Hey chums. Try out this cool new theme and lmk what you think.
Hey guys,
what are some features you'd like to see on the site?
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I asked smug/support/ about a webring plugin for Wakaba and here's a reply I got.
The plan is to become less of a "chan" and more of a freestanding site, and to shift gears from "anons who like otters" to "everyone who likes otters". I'm also working on another new otter website that I think you're gonna like. That all will be done in early '22, and I'll be out with a proper announcement until then.
Dear Ottmin,
Thank you for supporting the otts!
I took a poll of the local otter population on your proposed plans and these were the results:>shift gears from "anons who like otters" to "everyone who likes otters".There was general enthusiasm for this idea and a consensus that this is the correct direction for the shared future of otters and people. Having thoroughly one over all the Anons of quality, otters are ready to win the hearts and minds of the wider population.>another new otter websiteOtters in general report excited curiosity to experience something new, an Otterchan v2.0, perhaps, building on the massive success of the original? New year, new sight.>overallA majority of otters have been pleasantly surprised by their Otterchan adventures. More than half of all otters are ready to claim even more of the internet to make it into otter-habitable territory. 91.7% of all otters love the ottmin, and that's pretty fucking good cause everyone knows some otters like to ...
It's hard to say. It's almost as difficult to get close to a genuine otter pollster as it is with a real otter. But I suspect they are those special people chosen by the otters from early childhood to be a mouthpiece or conduit for otterkind. Translators, if you will, for the vast, blind mass of humanity who wouldn't appreciate otters even if they were lucky enough to get bitten right on the nose by one.
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Hey guys.
Shoot me an email if you can do Perl and want to help otterchan
Hope you all had a good weekend
FYI, Otterchan is currently getting 120-150 unique visitors per day, not bad I think.
Server upgraded. Power increased.
Update: finally fixed the mobile view. You can now enjoy otters on the go.
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Site upgrade is complete. We are Otterchat now.
Yes, we're becoming more. A shame for you, glory for us. Here's the post explaining if you ahven't seen it https://otterchat.net/arch/res/2102.html
I would tend to disagree with >>2151 as we are still trace our roots back to the webring, and I don’t think that the change from chan to chat would be enough to fundamentally separate us from our roots. This is of course up to the people organizing the icup and whether or not they decide if we should still be allowed in. I’d certainly like to be a part of the icup, and I’d imagine that there are a number of otternons that would too
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Wow, this site is already nearing its 1st anniversary. What a year it's been.
Hey friends.
Today I put a little welcome message on the top of the page so visitors will be warmly received. I also changed the Kawauso theme in a small way which makes it look quite a lot nicer imo. I'm thinking of switching Kawa2 to the same font, it might make it look better too.
Do you like the new site logo? It's been up for three months now, I'm quite fond of it but I made it myself so that doesn't really count. We could make it something simpler too. One of my otter friends offered to help improve the site technically. Nice of her. We'll see how that'll work out, I'd been thinking of some features that could be added. Other than that, I've been focussed on promoting Otterchat among otter enthusiasts. Generally it's been well received, although activity remained about the same. Oh well... I'm not one to demand much attention.
My hope is that the site pretty much promotes itself, by just being such a delightful place to be with lots of nice things to read about otters. The banners we made are also helping. This year's Ottercine (only ~2 months away!) is something I'm especially looking forward to. since I've been meeting lots of fellow otter enjoyers who are hopefully going to enjoy it with us.
I like the new logo, and I’d say hat all the recent changes to otterchan have been for the better. As for the low activity, I would say that higher activity isn’t necessarily a requirement, though it would obviously be good if we had a higher volume of high quality posts. Still, I’d rather have the current volume and quality than an increase in shitposting. In any event, the site itself is of high quality, and it’s a great place, and I’m glad that it’s here to provide an otterlover community
Hey otters, hope you're doing well
Money's a little tight this month, so please support the site if you can
https://otterchat.net/donate.html
Thankyou
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thanks for donating!
Is there a way to report spam posts or Wakaba doesn't have something like that?
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Hello otter fans and aficionados,
ICUP 7 is still being worked on, and progress is still steady, but we need your help. If you have a good PC enough to run PES 2017 and to stream it, or if you are willing to commentate, please contact us at anon.cafe/icup/. Currently we have three potential streamers, but the more the merrier.
ICUP 7 is still being worked on, and progress is still steady, but we need your help. If you have a good PC enough to run PES 2017 and to stream it, or if you are willing to commentate, please contact us at anon.cafe/icup/. Currently we have three potential streamers, but the more the merrier.
In regards to your team, it is currently valid. For extra fun, you can ask if the player pictures in your roster page can be used (to replace the empty icons in the game:
https://infinitycup.miraheze.org/wiki//otter//Roster
You can also try and find more 3D models (incl. .mmds) in case we have extra time to add them. On that note, the /eris/ guy is asking whoever did the mo...
Honestly, most image boards I wouldn't want much to do with since even if they're using the same kind of platfrom, they're still completely different. I know we once had a board on the webring (back when it used to be called /otter)/, but that was so long ago... By how much this place has grown since then, it doesn't feel like we have a part in it anymore. This is an online space for otter lovers, that's what Otterchat is about. So being an image board doesn't really mean anything to me, what's important is otters. You can go ahead and run our old team if you want, but I'm probably not gonna be bringing much excitement.
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The draw stream is going to happen on Friday this week, 18:00 UTC at https://cytu.be/r/infinitycup
The attached image shows the start time in various timezones (from https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?p1=1440&iso=20220812T18&msg=Draw%20Stream ). End time is unknown, but it should last an hour or two at least because it will be used to run test matches, and will probably fail catastrophically at some point.
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After a disastrous draw stream that started an hour late, we now have the group stage draw.
I'm not seeing any of the predicted rivalries. Group B appears to be the Group of Death.
Here is the test/draw stream, be warned that it starts off horribly due to a missing noise reducer on the microphone.
https://fedimovie.com/c/icup_stream7/videos?s=1
Fair warning, this is a PeerTube instance, so if the P2P bothers you then click My Settings on the left, then unselect "Help share videos being played"
(you don't need to login). This isn't necessary for the stream, just the replay.
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Here is the schedule for this weekend.
/otter/ will play against /christian/ on August 20th at 19:30 UTC.
Starting in one hour
Sorry for being late but the final score of your match against /christian/ ended up in a 1-1 tie.
You can watch the replay here: https://archive.org/download/ICUP7/Day%201%20Part%201.mp4
Starts at 1:04:00
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Here is the schedule for this week's set of matches.
/otter/ will face /art/ this Saturday August 27th at 19:30 UTC.
Starting in 55 minutes. You'll be playing against /art/ in the fourth match of the day, at the usual place: https://cytu.be/r/infinitycup
Actual working VOD here: https://archive.org/download/ICUP7/Day%203%20Part%201.mkv
Match starts at 1:41:41
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Here is the schedule for this weekend's matches.
/otter/ will play against /japan/ this Saturday September 3rd at 19:00 UTC.
Starting in one hour at https://cytu.be/r/infinitycup
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Infinity Cup 7 is now complete! Congratulations to /eris/ who joins the ranks of champions as they defeated /japan/ 3-1 in the Final! Stay tuned for the award winners over at our /icup/ board.
Thank you to every anon who chipped in throughout the Cup, and thank you especially to all the anons who took the time to tune in. We'll see you in the next one!
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I changed some other things around, please check if it works for you now.
Sorry, that was me trying to fix it but making it worse instead.
I just installed every browser I could think of and the captcha worked as intended for each of them. It even works in Internet Explorer. I did it on the ipad too, just to test it on safari, and it worked as well. I only got a timeout error once or twice, but that happens with our current captcha too, and when I got a timeout error it gave me a new, working captcha right after (as intended).
Since I can't find any problem I'm not sure what else I can do. Sorry to say I don't know why it doesn't want to work for you. I don't want to tell you to use another browser but maybe it will work if you do?
Thing is that this captcha we're currently using (the default wakaba captcha) is so unsafe that we might as well not use one at all, and since we've already dealt with bots and spam and such in the past we shouldn't stick with it. And it's also supposed to be a bit of fun for us to guess the otter species from t...
Oh, I just got it to work! I just started trying again and one time it said captcha timed out again, but I went for another shot and it worked that time! Let me try to do it a couple more times and make sure this wasn't just a fluke.
But yeah, I think this is a great idea, both for security reasons and for otters' sake
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Otterchat word cloud.
I tweaked things a bit and it looks like the captcha time out bug is resolved now. Give it a spin
https://otterchat.net/dev/wakaba
If you don't see it clear your cache and hard refresh (shift+reload).
Otterchat is two years old already?!
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Here's some site stats for those who are interested. I think it's an interesting picture of how the site has grown so far.
News are broken right now, seems Google broke their alert feeds. Gonna have to either wait for a fix or switch to another service, can't do much apart from that.
^ my email here
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Otters are so cute I wish they were real.
These captchas are hard.