Tomorrow Untrodden
posted by max on November 05, 2010 at 01:26:07 AM
Greetings.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
I've taken the next few weeks off from work to have another YTMND development drive. This will include much-needed maintenance, bug fixes and a few new features. In addition to this, I've been working with Big Spaceship over the last month working on a new design, which I'll be implementing as well. If I have the remaining time, I'll be fixing up the admin panels and possibly adding some new mods.
So this is your chance to complain about anything (aside from the design) that's been bugging you recently or stuff you've been dying for.
I'll keep you guys updated over the next few weeks in between eating handfuls of adderall. Please provide useful feedback and bug reports. While I'm working on the new codebase, I'm going to be moderating with an iron fist. There will be zero tolerance for spamming/trolling/etc, so unless you want all your accounts deleted and to be IP banned at our routers, please try and behave for once.
Please do not bother me about being a moderator, when the time comes I'll make a news post about it.
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What have you done to ytmnd max it's HIDEOUS it's just like portal of fucking evil now except with media instead of links except it doesnt stretch to fit screen anymore are you trying to make this place appeal to some social minority that mainstream america generally doesnt approve of (is ytmnd going homo y/n)
That's very pleasant! As always I can't wait to see the new features!
May I suggest we make a new contest à la Jon Stewart's rally? Something like "Contest to restore Dogginess" or similar. A contest in which we, the 99.99% of the community, are fed up of the constant stream of shit delivered by the other 0.01%. I think a fun contest like that would help reconnect our community and make it a little stronger.
May I suggest we make a new contest à la Jon Stewart's rally? Something like "Contest to restore Dogginess" or similar. A contest in which we, the 99.99% of the community, are fed up of the constant stream of shit delivered by the other 0.01%. I think a fun contest like that would help reconnect our community and make it a little stronger.
New limit on making sites!!!
When I say this, I mean to make a limit so people can stop site spamming.
http://weneedchange.ytmnd.com/
[u]Examples of what you can do:[/u]
A user can only make an X amount of sites in a day
A user can only make a site every 10 minutes.
A user can't make a site that they already used the name for. (Let's say a use made a site called "Sauce", well that user can't name another site called "Sauce" again.) And a user can't make 2 sites with the same audio, pictures, and content.
When I say this, I mean to make a limit so people can stop site spamming.
http://weneedchange.ytmnd.com/
[u]Examples of what you can do:[/u]
A user can only make an X amount of sites in a day
A user can only make a site every 10 minutes.
A user can't make a site that they already used the name for. (Let's say a use made a site called "Sauce", well that user can't name another site called "Sauce" again.) And a user can't make 2 sites with the same audio, pictures, and content.
Actually I suggested this before here http://thiscoulddoit.ytmnd.com/. Max actually implemented it and people bitched for a bit but it worked out great. Then for some strange reason he decided to remove the limit. I asked him why and his response was that he would just delete the user accounts of the offending users. Anyway long story short bring back the 1 site per hour limit, get some mods, have said mods remove bad apples and we might just have ourselves a website again. However personally I've given up hope of this place ever being anything like it used to be back in 2006.
here's something to think about:
some people in "the forum where the current state of the site is being discussed" are trying to figure out ways to solve the "personal sites" problem and the group voting problem. ok, these are problems i guess, but they are inevitable problems. or, inevitable symptoms of an online community. if you're trying to find concrete solutions to these problems, aren't you trying to limit
1) the user's right to post what they want
and
2) the users right to vote how they please
aren't number 1 and number 2 the most basic ideas that allow ytmnd to be ytmnd? wouldn't it be kind of fascist to try and regulate them?
some people in "the forum where the current state of the site is being discussed" are trying to figure out ways to solve the "personal sites" problem and the group voting problem. ok, these are problems i guess, but they are inevitable problems. or, inevitable symptoms of an online community. if you're trying to find concrete solutions to these problems, aren't you trying to limit
1) the user's right to post what they want
and
2) the users right to vote how they please
aren't number 1 and number 2 the most basic ideas that allow ytmnd to be ytmnd? wouldn't it be kind of fascist to try and regulate them?
you have good points there. yes, i've been to funny or die. it's great, but the one thing that i always liked about ytmnd is that its more user oriented. all the garbage has always been part of the fun for me, but yeah, it certainly keeps away lots of users.
i guess i [i]would[/i] like to see this place grow up and become more like FoD or other places like that. that's what will save it.
i guess i'm agreeing with you. not that i was ever totally against you on the subject. 100% of my responses to you here were for the sole purpose of being a wiseass and making you respond. especially my above comment about fascism.
so yes, i would like a more rigid front page format, but i also wouldn't want to totally loose the internet-garbage aspect all together.
i guess i [i]would[/i] like to see this place grow up and become more like FoD or other places like that. that's what will save it.
i guess i'm agreeing with you. not that i was ever totally against you on the subject. 100% of my responses to you here were for the sole purpose of being a wiseass and making you respond. especially my above comment about fascism.
so yes, i would like a more rigid front page format, but i also wouldn't want to totally loose the internet-garbage aspect all together.
The oldest issue with ytmnd is that Max never took his baby really seriously. He's been running this site himself the entire span of its existence and could never keep up with the demands of the userbase, so they left. Instead of doing what any sensible person would do and turn ytmnd into a business and hiring people to keep up with demands and evolve the site and design, he insisted on keeping it completely static and self-contained within the community, only pushing to make vague promises of small incremental improvements based on a trickle of echo chamber demands (and even then he ignored some of that and made whatever you want to call YTMND 2.0). Max has never aggressively pushing for relevance, despite the clear opportunity to do so starting in mid 2006, ytmnd's peak, and that is why ytmnd has become the garbage heap of the internet instead of a viable alternative to other user-based media sites. Other sites grew up, and ytmnd festered and rot.
there should be a section on the new front page where users can post pictures of themselves. like, it could be called "Pick List" and we could like, post pics from facebook or just mirror pics or like pics of whatever. i was edward cullen for halloween, and i've been dieing to get my costume pics onto ytmnd. i looked really good. i had sex that night. with a big fat pirate in the bathroom at a party. that is not a lie.
plus, i really want to see all kinds of real life user related stuff, like what cereal max ate for breakfast or what toilet paper brand feels the best on fourest's butt. like, if i could see a fourest-uploaded pic taken from the view of him sitting on the toilet, and you can see the opened Charmin Ultra Soft pack sitting next to the tub and like fourest's leg is blurry in the bottom corner of he pic, haha! that would be awesome.
if you could upload .txt files or microsoft word files, that would be cool. i wanna read poetry, short stories, emails, journal entries, whatever. if a user made it, i wanna see it.
everything i said is a lie. not the fat pirate part, unfortunately. i was fingering her butt and eating her out. i'm still waiting for my lips to break out and the roof of my mouth to turn to liquid.
plus, i really want to see all kinds of real life user related stuff, like what cereal max ate for breakfast or what toilet paper brand feels the best on fourest's butt. like, if i could see a fourest-uploaded pic taken from the view of him sitting on the toilet, and you can see the opened Charmin Ultra Soft pack sitting next to the tub and like fourest's leg is blurry in the bottom corner of he pic, haha! that would be awesome.
if you could upload .txt files or microsoft word files, that would be cool. i wanna read poetry, short stories, emails, journal entries, whatever. if a user made it, i wanna see it.
everything i said is a lie. not the fat pirate part, unfortunately. i was fingering her butt and eating her out. i'm still waiting for my lips to break out and the roof of my mouth to turn to liquid.