how have i not posted in this topic yet, what kind of a team jcinker am i-

honestly, i am. one of those kinds of people that have already been mentioned where i will never join another proboards site even if it happened to be The Best Site Ever (tm) and Everything I Ever Wanted In A Site (tm) just because i dislike the user interface that much (that account switcher breaks me, okay, i have an entire rant about it but john mulaney voice "now we don't have time to unpack all of that").

i really do love jcink though - i personally find it a lot easier to skin for than proboards, i like a lot of the unique features of it (multimods are a godsend and you can pry my ability to post an approval notice + lock the thread + move it to the right board in a single click from my cold dead hands), i feel a lot less stressed over content boundaries between premium's accessibility + the general community vibes i get from either platform's site admin teams, and honestly the only feature from proboards that i actively miss is the block feature (i use it for resource sites so i can try to keep myself from seeing posts that will get me worked up for one reason or another).

that being said though, i will be honest that while the general forum-based rp community vastly prefers jcink, the animanga forum-based community is much more evenly split (the best tl;dr way i know to describe it is that the real life community moved to jcink with the release of proboards v5 where animanga didn't, and sure, it's not a perfect observation, but again, We Don't Have Time To Unpack All Of That). there's definitely some variation depending on the exact genre you're in (ie, pokemon rps strongly favor proboards while animated panfandoms strongly favor jcink), but i don't honestly don't think any site would be dead on arrival simply because of its host platform (the overall audience for the site + tolerability of the overall site systems / policies are probably much larger factors in that regard).

of course, with proboards v6 on the horizon, that will likely have some impacts in the long-term (since rn, proboards is the easier software for less code-savvy admins to work with, but with v6 likely to wipe the code banks of available premade skins again at a time when most coders don't make premades anymore in favor of commissions + when most coders don't code for proboards anymore, they might get largely pushed out simply because of a lack of competitive skins to attract people outside of a handful of individual coders), but it's difficult to predict it since animanga is a largely decentralized community and thus kind of hard to observe trends for since they don't always collect in on the same watering holes of resource sites. so. yeah.



tl;dr "i personally like jcink, i think it is very neat for many reasons; yes, jcink is popular with the overall forum community, but within animanga, the community is much more split between proboards + jcink, with a few genre-based exceptions, but who tf knows what proboards v6 will do to that balance, guess we'll see when the dust ends up settling after the initial release + resulting panic die down."

From the perspective of a member and coder, things I like more about Proboards than Jcink:
- recent posts
- being able to delete my own posts
- urls are friendlier, don't need to memorize that whole &act=getCODE or whatever it is
- saving profile changes is faster because it doesn't require the whole page to reload
- accounts being linked to one master account across separate sites, for the sole reason that it's a nifty way of looking back at where I've been... As for how multi accounts work on one site, that's a different story

Things I like more about Jcink than Proboards
- everything else.

If we want to get specific:
- display names match usernames—which makes tagging so much easier—and usernames can be changed
- custom ubbc codes
- dohtml. Dohtml. Dohtml
- how multi accounts are handled—switching between them, pushing alerts to a parent one

More generally though, it doesn't seem like the best time to pick up Proboards when v6 is looming on the horizon and might cause you have to relearn skins and codes and everything.

watch me become that one lady doing math meme because i've literally not found a single open jcink rp site that didn't allow you to delete your own posts. (i mean. they might have not turned on deleting your own threads at first but. that's a separate permission, so it's easy to miss it if you're going fast + aren't looking for it.)

if the site's still young, honestly, i would go ask. since the setting is turned on for staff by default + jcink's system means that it's extremely rare for a staffer to actually be making any posts while logged in on any account but their staff one, so. they might not realize it's not turned on for members since, y'know, they're not really on an account to be able to notice it. (and i mean. what's the worst that can happen, you bring it up as just "hey, i'm not able to delete my own post, is that setting turned off in the acp?" and the answer turns out to be "oh yes we did that on purpose"? you'd probs not be the only member to find that answer a lil bit sus, so. yeah.)


edit: actually, on second thought, i think deleting your own posts is actually enabled by default, it's deleting your own threads that isn't + has to be manually turned on. which y'know. same thing stands.

Isn't the default behavior for deleted posts to not actually get deleted, but moved to a trash board though? There's no way to see from the member side if something's scrapped for good or merely hidden in a staff-only board. Or is there?