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The amount of times the intrusive thought of, "oh why don't I just open a jcink animanga resource site myself?" whenever I think about the lack of coding resources available in the community, before I slip into the kombucha girl meme like

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Echoing what said, the lack of coding knowledge in the community and the fact that skins these days either require massive amounts of investment and/or real money to commission knowledgeable coders, a light/dark toggle unfortunately, boils down to being a bit low-priority compared to all the other items on an admin's massive to-do list. As a designer, I agree that accessibility should be first and foremost, but if you think about it, making sure your skin works with both light and dark colour schemes and making them both work and look good is essentially coding two skins instead of the minimum one you'll need to open.

It's already big enough of a hurdle for people to successfully open sites, let alone making something successful that would stay open for a long period of time, and I understand that sentiment completely, having personally experienced more failures in site-admin'ing than successes. 

What I think would be the solution? Having more people invested in this hobby and branching out to learn coding. But I also completely understand how for most they're here to enjoy the hobby and writing is their foremost priority, and not the bells and whistles that make it more palatable. 

For reference, currently I'm working on my newest project's site skin and needing to make sure that the colours work for both light and dark mode, I had to do mock-ups in Figma for comparison and making revisions for both themes where needed. It's not as simple as just swapping out hex codes in the root variables when you swap to another theme, sadly.
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It's insane how underrated this group is. All of their songs are certified bangers.


And the rap line is NOT here to play!!!
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Valentine's went by with me taking a long nap after falling asleep to reading otome-isekai webtoons, and then waking up to the boyfriend coming home with KFC which automatically made it the most romantic gesture of all time ๐Ÿ—
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who else out there watched the nijisanji management approved career suicide yet

The silver lining in all of this is that I'm enjoying all the memes that're spawning from the drama.


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HSR reminding us players that this is indeed a Honkai game ๐Ÿ’€

Shaoji writing the Peakacony story quests is such tonal whiplash coming from the honestly boring at best, disappointing at worst, Luofu quests. So many of the Clockwork sidequests have no right being this good.
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All the studio live songs are so GOOD but this one just showcases the godly polyphonic skills that is FICTIONJUNCTION
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Can we talk about the devastating, heart-breaking moment when you find a beautiful piece of fanart of your face claim...

...only to discover it was AI-generated?

All-in-all this circles back to the 'proper sourcing/crediting' camp and while some folks can make the argument that roleplaying is more about the writing than the aesthetic, I agree with the points made about the animanga roleplaying experience is now packaged as a whole with equal parts writing/aesthetics/graphics and that's not something that's gonna change in a while, I feel. Also the exploitative nature of some anime/manga AI-generators have caused some artists I follow to put statements in their social media platforms to plead with others that their art isn't allowed to be used to train AI speaks volumes. Anyway that's my yackety-sax two-cents piece for this thread.