Any feedback is absolutely welcome from all of you, whether feature requests or bug reports. If this list gets too long to manage, I'll make a fresh thread later. Thank you all for your patience as we make this web community happen!

Major Features Planned:

• Fully integrated wiki with universal info panels and page links from forum. I want the wiki experience to seamlessly coexist with the forum without feeling like you're on a whole different website. This means rendering straight on a forum page in the same style, using your existing logged-in session.
  One thing I would like to do is parse forum pages for exact names of wiki pages, for example "Kikuka Tsukishiro," and turn those into links to the pages with hover tips briefly summarizing the entry. A relatively unobtrusive way to promote our future all-encompassing lore reference.
  Another feature is the info panel. Lots of wikis have summary panels, and I think if I put all commonly-used attributes into the wiki page database, then users could easily search wiki pages by anything from game release dates to character hair colors.

• User Creations submission. A dedicated section, highlighted on the front page much like the news box in the beta theme, where users can submit fanart, fics, etc.
  Submissions can track likes/upvotes/kudos, and could use auto-generated hidden threads to effectively have a full comments section. Multiple pages/images/scenes would also be supported, with each having their own settings for marking NSFW or limiting to registered users only for more privacy.

• Reader for VN-style scripts. The idea here is to offer story browsing in a similar format to browsing posts in a thread, with character names/portraits and dialogue. Scenes or chapters can be separated automatically into different pages, with branching choices being possible for multiple endings. Each scene can also have its own comments section as well.
  This will eventually be one way of experiencing the upcoming fan translations, and I could add the ability for users to submit their own fanfics in VN-inspired script format.

• Optionally displaying posts as a feed. I had this idea not too long ago but I think some of you might appreciate this. An alternate display option for the main page, which instead of displaying forum categories, displays actual posts along with the last comment (or first unread comment if applicable). This would include general forum threads as well as user creations, making a layout that may be more familiar if you're used to modern social platforms. It would, of course, always be left to your choice whether to view the forum in classic category view or as a feed.

Bugs/QoL/minor edits:

• Theme integration improvements such as better dividers between threads and categories. Ongoing

• Spoiler and NSFW text block tags, with message composer buttons to add them automatically. NSFW does not show to unconfirmed guests. NSFW images should not have nested warnings, i.e. if you click open a NSFW text block, then any images within it should just get shown instead of having to click them too. Spoiler blocks will redact individual lines of text that you can mouse-over to reveal, unless the spoiler contains multiple lines or images in which case it'll get a click-to-reveal block. Spoilers are fully implemented now, NSFW still needs further implementation.

• Aojiru-themed smileys. It should also be easy enough to adapt the New Reply smileys selection box into the Quick Reply composer to make them more intuitively available in casual conversation. There are a few of them available in the extended smiley box, but this still needs to be finished and made more cohesive.

Completed Tasks:

• {DONE} Go live with the new theme! Anyone can access the beta theme now, via the dropdown in the site footer, but it's still unfinished and needs some pages worked on before I'll consider it fully usable. Once the main user experience is under the new theme and fully compatible with both desktop and tablet, I'll call it done enough to switch all users and guests over. We have officially switched over! This does mean that my bad habit of testing changes on the live site has to be with a bit more care now, but in general I think it's become a much better experience for new guests.

• {DONE} Deleted post placeholder is shifted weirdly with user info still hanging off the side. This might only be noticeable to admins, but it irritates me. Fixed! The placeholder is styled correctly and the actual post is fully hidden now.

• {DONE} Quick Reply box doesn't clear after posting. An annoying quirk I'm seeing in non-Default styles that still needs fixing. As featured in an early post below, this was a surprisingly convoluted fix that had to address two separate issues at once, but it seems to be all good now.

• {DONE} Just saw an issue where the chat Edit feature didn't populate the input box, so I overwrote my old message with a new one I tried to send. The default functionality of the RTChat plugin expects the message entry box to exist on the same scope level as the rest of the form, whereas the new theme throws it into a styled "itemborder" box. Interestingly, the plugin did not fail in this way when sending messages, only when editing, so the fix was easy to figure out.

• {DONE} Robots.txt settings against AI scrapers. Obviously this is not foolproof, since AI bros flagrantly disregard the consent of others (like demons on girls, but more tasteless), but it's at least something. Complete, we'll see how it goes.

• {DONE} Disable user registration until 18+ form is passed. It just makes sense, and since most sites don't require clicking a specific form button before registering, this will continue to be a nice hurdle for spambots. Aaaand done. Registration only works on the new theme now, so uh... I think it might be time to switch.

• {DONE} Option for vertical site layout on wide desktop. Shrinking the window or viewing on mobile forces a vertically-stacked layout for all elements, but I will also add an option to force this on wider screens for those who prefer it that way. This is now officially an option in your Edit Settings section. I may add more layout customization in the future though.

But come on. There are easier ways to prettify our posts.

Now, there's certainly a lot of things about Discord that I'm not a fan of, but one thing that is pretty cool is that it uses something akin to Markdown syntax. That means it allows you to add things like bold text, italicized text, struck-out text, and:

• Lists
• Of
• Items

but to add those things, you don't even have to:

1. Click
2. Any
3. Buttons

The brilliant thing about implementing this into the site backend is that you get all those new formatting features without really having to select or learn anything. Using asterisks for emphasis makes sense even in plain text (it turns to italic now), two asterisks around a word or phrase sets it off more (in Markdown it turns to bold), and using - or 1. for lists is also pretty straightforward.

I haven't put the new code in place for the quick reply composer yet - which will make this functionality even easier to understand and use - but that's coming, and for now you can already use the features I've listed above easily enough. It also works in the chat!

So, what do you guys think of this? 

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Not the content (although, come on, we know Mikoto is hot), but the presentation. I've bodged a "show/hide" function into the forum software with the PHP equivalent of duct tape, and the attachment automatically displays in full size once you choose to show it.

As far as I can tell, this should work decently. That's two of three parts needed for this implementation. The first is a database entry for "nsfw" on all attachments (true/false), the second is modifying the attachment rendering code to look for that data field and hide it behind a bit of protection if so.

The final step, which I have not finished yet, is adding an easy way to mark attachments as NSFW directly in the post/reply window. I'll try and mess with it later today, no promises. But once it's all said and done, I think this will make a decidedly important part of our hentai community quite a bit more intuitive to use!

Just added the MyBB theme "Simplicity Dark." Primarily red and black color scheme. I'm thinking about maybe doing some further customizing with it, since there are a few issues I'm not a fan of, but one big bonus for some users is that it works waaaay better on mobile than the default theme.

If you're still on the default style, you can choose this one with the dropdown at the bottom of the page. The new style lacks that dropdown (lol) but you can go to User Control Panel >> Edit Options >> "Board Style" at the bottom to change it back.

I may adapt this in the future into a full "official" Inyouchuuverse forum theme (add back some white, and I'm kinda thinking flesh-cave background would be epic). But regardless, I will leave the original theme in place for those who may still prefer it. Unless nobody does!

What really satisfied me was seeing the actual benchmark results (just a bit of scrolling down the page) and discovering that MyBB, the forum software Inyouchuuverse is built on, is one of the most efficient services out there for devices to connect to, even older ones. The one real downside to it is that it doesn't serve up a mobile layout for phone users, something the search engines wouldn't like about us.

That said, the fact that MyBB is open source means that if it doesn't do I want, I can just take a page from Lord Nightmare's playbook and rip out part of it and replace it with bits that work the way I want them to. With all the source code out there for reference, I can't imagine it would be too difficult to put together a mobile layout that could be served to users connecting from a phone. For that matter, there's a "MyBB Mobile" framework that allows the easy creation of a connected app with notifications and everything. Admittedly, though, that's a big project for a small community, so I'm not sure I'll be going that far.

Now, if that link looks a little bland, that's intentional. The creator decided to strip out pretty much all the CSS after discovering a bunch of inefficiencies in Octopress, the blog platform he was using. The page is a bit hard to read at first, but after I'd read through a few screens of it, it all just started to feel right. I don't foresee our site turning into "default 90s style" if you will, but there's a lot of food for thought in there as to what should really matter when presenting information online. Honestly, it gives me a ton of ideas on efficient designs, and now that I'm rediscovering web programming, there's no telling what will come of all this.

That last link included a very interesting resource, webpagetest.org, which connects to a website and breaks down every connection and every bottleneck. So, of course, I turned it loose on Inyouchuuverse.

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Based on the knowledge that MyBB is pretty darn efficient, I wasn't too surprised with these results. Indeed, the entire page loads in about half a second. One thing I did find interesting was that the biggest resource drain was, of all possible things, the logo in the top left (1/10 second to download), with some jquery taking up a close second. I will admit there's a part of me that wants to swap out that PNG for the original SVG source, although at this point I doubt this forum could load much faster than it already does. Which makes me happy!