DECEMBER UPDATES - HEYURI EDITION by kuz - 2020/12/07(Mon)01:30:00
Development
Day 2 of Heyuri, and so far we are off to a wonderful start. I have received only a handful of complaints, the vast majority of which are easily fixable or have to do with the captcha. The captcha, which I have had a couple problems with myself, will be made significantly easier. In addition, if you get a captcha that is too hard, you can click on it to get a new one. In the future, users will be exempt from it entirely, once their IP is verified. However, at the first sign of spam coming from that IP, the exemption will be revoked. This exemption will be entirely free, save, that you must prove to me you are worthy of recieving it. You can expect to see this addition within a week. Some other minor issues such as the "Errors have occured" bug and various HTTPS problems have been patched.
In other words—smooth sailing so far!.
Heyuri-Townhall
For those of you who are old enough to remember, throughout 2004 and 2005, 'moot' from 4chan regularly held site-wide meeting in the #4chan IRC that he dubbed "4chan-Townhall", this meeting was typically coordinated on the /sug/ (suggestions) board, which was later renamed to /q/. Likewise, I sought to recreate this.
So, from here on out, I will hold monthly IRC-Townhall meetings on the 10th of each month. In these I hope to communicate to instill communication with the ever-mysterious mod team, and create a dialogue between the userbase and the administration. New features, suggestions, and other meta topics will be discussed in them, I also hope to hear feedback about the state of Heyuri, but the atmosphere will remain overall light-hearted and fun. I hope to see all of you in attendance!
The first Heyuri-Townhall will be held on December 10th, 1:00pm EST. Mark your calenders!
Lolico's Retirement & New host
Yes, you have heard it. By his own will and varition, lolico, the original creator of Heyuris software and long-time former administrator, has retired from Heyuri. He, in is own words, has found new things in life to pursue and will be working with us for about a week to smooth out any remaining issues, help in the transfer of power, and give guidance to me so that I may operate Heyuri as smoothly as he did. My deepest gratitude to him and all of what he did for Heyuri. We would be nowhere without him—sayonara, my dearest <3
With this revalation, two big questions come to mind—Who will be our new developer? and Who owns Heyuris files and domain?. The first question is easy, our old SH developers will be replacing him, as well as the incredibly talented 9chan developer—DCPdev. The second question is a bit more long-winded.
Lolico initially owned the "heyuri.net" domain, and I, the "heyuri.cf" domain. He was perfectly OK with giving it to me for the sake of peaceful transferral of power, however, we noticed an issue. That is, lolico uses godaddy, and I use namecheap. This doesnt sound like much of a problem, you can transfer the domain between the 2 relatively easily, right? Well, yes. However, it states on the transfer page that the transfer can take up to 1 week. I dont want heyuri to be down for 1 week, but I know that it might be, because I will have to transfer it eventually. If you have any advice about this, please post it in /q/. In the meanwhile, Heyuri's status page can be found here
Anonymous drew this on the oekaki board — lovely tomo :3
Growth Plans and the "bounce back"
In June-July, which is often regarded as Heyuris "golden age", /b/ averaged around 10PPH, or roughly 100 posts per day, or 150 on weekends,or 400+ on GET-days!. GETs were always a special and exciting time for Heyuri, since its relatively small size meant that they were spaced at least 1 or 2 weeks apart, and there was always alot of people coming from the shadows and trying to score a rare milestone GET (1k, 2k, etc). After 4 straight MONTHS of downtime, I dont expect everything to instantly come back to normal, but I personally believe we can all expect to see Heyuri "bounce-back" within a month. I also would like to use this segment to elaborate on my plans for growth, and what my goals are for heyuris PPH.
Unlike my predecessor, I dont expect nor want Heyuri to ever reach "4chan" sized speeds, as I dont believe that is something to aspire to, nor do I believe the close-knit community of Heyuri would enjoy such a thing. If you mean "4chan speeds" by 2004 standards? Then absolutely, I would love to see Heyuri grow into something resembling that. A PPH of around 30 or 40, that is steady and does not drop is my general goal. I personally set "4chan 2004" as my goal in terms of activity on Heyuri. After that goal is achieved, I will likely slow down heyuris outward presence greatly, to foster a more tightknit community with all of the newcomers. As always, let me know what you think about this in /q/.
Misc.
Day 2 of Heyuri, and so far we are off to a wonderful start. I have received only a handful of complaints, the vast majority of which are easily fixable or have to do with the captcha. The captcha, which I have had a couple problems with myself, will be made significantly easier. In addition, if you get a captcha that is too hard, you can click on it to get a new one. In the future, users will be exempt from it entirely, once their IP is verified. However, at the first sign of spam coming from that IP, the exemption will be revoked. This exemption will be entirely free, save, that you must prove to me you are worthy of recieving it. You can expect to see this addition within a week. Some other minor issues such as the "Errors have occured" bug and various HTTPS problems have been patched.
In other words—smooth sailing so far!.
Heyuri-Townhall
For those of you who are old enough to remember, throughout 2004 and 2005, 'moot' from 4chan regularly held site-wide meeting in the #4chan IRC that he dubbed "4chan-Townhall", this meeting was typically coordinated on the /sug/ (suggestions) board, which was later renamed to /q/. Likewise, I sought to recreate this.
So, from here on out, I will hold monthly IRC-Townhall meetings on the 10th of each month. In these I hope to communicate to instill communication with the ever-mysterious mod team, and create a dialogue between the userbase and the administration. New features, suggestions, and other meta topics will be discussed in them, I also hope to hear feedback about the state of Heyuri, but the atmosphere will remain overall light-hearted and fun. I hope to see all of you in attendance!
The first Heyuri-Townhall will be held on December 10th, 1:00pm EST. Mark your calenders!
Lolico's Retirement & New host
Yes, you have heard it. By his own will and varition, lolico, the original creator of Heyuris software and long-time former administrator, has retired from Heyuri. He, in is own words, has found new things in life to pursue and will be working with us for about a week to smooth out any remaining issues, help in the transfer of power, and give guidance to me so that I may operate Heyuri as smoothly as he did. My deepest gratitude to him and all of what he did for Heyuri. We would be nowhere without him—sayonara, my dearest <3
With this revalation, two big questions come to mind—Who will be our new developer? and Who owns Heyuris files and domain?. The first question is easy, our old SH developers will be replacing him, as well as the incredibly talented 9chan developer—DCPdev. The second question is a bit more long-winded.
Lolico initially owned the "heyuri.net" domain, and I, the "heyuri.cf" domain. He was perfectly OK with giving it to me for the sake of peaceful transferral of power, however, we noticed an issue. That is, lolico uses godaddy, and I use namecheap. This doesnt sound like much of a problem, you can transfer the domain between the 2 relatively easily, right? Well, yes. However, it states on the transfer page that the transfer can take up to 1 week. I dont want heyuri to be down for 1 week, but I know that it might be, because I will have to transfer it eventually. If you have any advice about this, please post it in /q/. In the meanwhile, Heyuri's status page can be found here
Anonymous drew this on the oekaki board — lovely tomo :3
Growth Plans and the "bounce back"
In June-July, which is often regarded as Heyuris "golden age", /b/ averaged around 10PPH, or roughly 100 posts per day, or 150 on weekends,
Unlike my predecessor, I dont expect nor want Heyuri to ever reach "4chan" sized speeds, as I dont believe that is something to aspire to, nor do I believe the close-knit community of Heyuri would enjoy such a thing. If you mean "4chan speeds" by 2004 standards? Then absolutely, I would love to see Heyuri grow into something resembling that. A PPH of around 30 or 40, that is steady and does not drop is my general goal. I personally set "4chan 2004" as my goal in terms of activity on Heyuri. After that goal is achieved, I will likely slow down heyuris outward presence greatly, to foster a more tightknit community with all of the newcomers. As always, let me know what you think about this in /q/.
Misc.
- Strawberryheaven will be closing down indefinitley.
- The monthly anime on /a/ will resume, for December—"Bottle Fairy" has been chosen. Expect a stickied thread on /a/ very soon.
- /jp/ will be going to do low activity. /d/ - deviant will be made in place of /l/ and /g/.
—kuz