Any concept or design trend out there I'd bet a good amount of money you can pull it off better than anyone else in the community. Show 'em how it is done.

I don't have too much experience outside of animanga but to review you need the following skills to make a site that many people consider to be worthy of joining

-People Person/Leadership skill
-Recruiting
-Ability to make or outsource a customized skin that no one has ever used before, but looks enough like every other skin to be cool.
-Good Writing Ability
-A compelling plot
-Flexible Schedule
-Image editing skills
-Artistic Talent or Money for commissioned art or a sworn statement from an artist with three witnesses in a court of law.
-Money to subscribe to premium so people can write segs /j.
-SEO optimization.
-Years of experience with a stellar reputation.
-Established friend group to mod and startup with.
-Discord chat moderation skills.

With all those things on the table, is it really any surprise when you can't find a site about a niche manga that has never been translated to English or adapted into anime?

The hobby is not dying, it has just become a career field to make things happen. So I'd either get used to panfandoms and very popular series RPs or try to lower standards a bit. The mid 2010's golden era where a couple talented people were hammering out skin after skin is over and aesthetic expectations keep getting higher.

XD is fine when someone else says a joke that you think is funny.

When you say a joke followed by XD, it is like laughing at your own joke. Things like /s or /j are better ways to indicate you are intending it to be read with humor.

o3o

I'm bringing o3o back

When I nearly died of complications from appendicitis, they kept having someone call every day to "check up on me" at the hospital and ask how much longer we thought I would need to recover, which became increasingly more rude each time.

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.

To play the devil's advocate a bit, allowing people to power game and break things a bit isn't necessarily as bad as it seems on a surface level. Even in light systems, you are going to have folks who lack grace when it comes to fair play in anything that involves competition that you will have to deal with. Having a tight system provides more nuance into how you handle judgement calls when disputes arise— but my main point is that when you do have a means for people to optimize you can kind of channel those types of players into the same environment while others who aren't that competitive can enjoy other aspects of the game.

For a pokemon site for example- you could make the most optimal progressions all about pokemon league stuff, and that's what power gamers will focus on. They'll all go to league tournaments, while your slice of life folks and pokemon collectors will probably stick to other elements you present. People tend to sort themselves into tribes this way, and if all the power gamers are power gaming against each other in a vacuum and not bullying people who aren't into competitive play then it isn't really a problem. They're just nerds enjoying doing fictional calculus really.

That's not to say I don't love rules light systems. I think they are the most accessible option for a forum to run. They just tend to require more off the cuff arbitration that can actually make handling disputes harder and more frequent. Usually, power gamers aren't as frequent in light systems, but when things get competitive a lack of checks can be a weakness because you have nothing to cite other than your opinion on how something turns out.

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Thank you

A site where AI reads your posts and tries to figure out the setting of the thread so that it can join in and respond with little background details about what is going on around the characters in the thread. For example if we write that we are at a cafe it might generate a post about a waiter coming to ask us what we want to eat.

Someone pitch this to AI devs, I’m sure they’ll jump at the opportunity to make tens of dollars.

Someone has offered to take over doing affiliates at animangads. We are accepting affiliate requests again. Unfortunately the old list is gone, so anyone interested please resubmit your button codes.

I apologize to those who requested affiliation to Animangads in the past few months that I did not get to.

As of today, Animangads will no longer host affiliates with non-resource sites. For sites that were affiliated with us, feel free to take down our button and thank you for partnering with us. The advertising section of the site will remain around for those who wish to use it and view its contents, but I can no longer commit to maintaining it and didn't have luck with recruiting a suitable replacement.

Staff can only cultivate a site culture to a certain degree. The larger a ste gets the more it takes on a life of its own. Sometimes this can lead to something greater than the conceptions of the site maker, and at others it can lead to ruin.

I'd ad mod for someone so hard if they'd just make a decent Jujutsu Kaisen site that allows original characters. I'd even buy you a banner ad on here for your launch day.