i've been chewing on this comment since last night and i think it's a good example of how the community has changed, not necessarily for the better. no one shares anymore. no one wants to make premades skins bc of just how time consuming they are, even without all the extra stuff that comes with custom/purchased skins these days. so i think a significant part of this is for people to stop...expecting all the bells and whistles all the time. like not every skin needs a custom fancy board mod, or a million extra templates made for the site. but it's all expected now.

here's to hoping my monitor arrives soon

My housemate is gonna hate me when the new Hypmic album comes out. Rivals on repeat all day every day

so, what i’ve noticed is that animanga skins have become increasingly visibly complicated, rl site skins haven’t moved quite as far as animanga skins. like sure there can be pretty complicated set dresses, but it’s not on the level of extra of say, multiple board designs that animanga tends towards. however, both rl and animanga have all started working towards more responsive designs, and i think that’s the culprit here. love me responsive design, but it can be a real slog to code. (i have to use brain cells and i dislike using brain cells.)
i’d love to make a pre-made honestly, but it takes fucking forever even when i’m not adding bells and whistles just to code goddamn responsiveness into a skin 😭

also specifically for the animanga community, there’s not a ton of people who actively code skins. i’ve noticed a lot of design trends largely taken from leap who has always incorporated a flair of complex designs. iirc rlly fancy alternate board designs were at least popularised by leap, if not first done by them. leap tends towards these very pretty but complex skins which a lot of coders have taken insp from and has kinda become a staple of the animanga style so to speak

The secret is you can just use an old premade or skin something relatively simple and people will join anyway. Life is too short to worry about strangers on the internet judging you because you can't code or afford a coder to customize a skin for you. When I launch sites I spend way more time advertising than I do on code and I never have a problem getting interest.

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she gorgeous

hello buddies

for the love of god you haven't posted ic on that character for 5 months just give me the fc

alas i hate engaging in drama, it's only fun to watch, so i'll just find a new one

anyone have any recommendations for finding fcs? i used zerochan but they borked it and now you need to specify a series to sort by popular

cats please can you not fight behind my head. my poor neck is suffering the consequences here.

I need a vacation so bad. Of maybe 1000000 years.