[Archived] Suggestions For Site Changes

I just noticed something. The video comment section is the same for every episode of a video. This is slightly problematic as it means you can't make any spoiler comments.

Now I'm not sure how doable either of these are but I have two ideas to fix this

1. make a unique comment thing for each episode- I guess it you died the comment section to the video tab you could make this work although I guess this makes the problem of having more places for spam to hide and problems to crop up.
2. Make spoiler tags for the comments-Again I have no idea if this is even a little possible but if making the comments unique for each video won't work making a way to hide spoiler comments (Maybe even being able to lable them to say what kind of spoilers they are) is a great alternative and may even work better. I know sites like Crunchyroll have spoiler tags for their comments but I haven't seen this anywhere else so I doubt it's a comment thing for comment systems.

But anyway having a way for people watching videos to make quick comments without having to go to the forums and find/make the appropriate thread and then leave a comment is a great way to get a small community made of casual users who could eventually move on to the forums. So I feel improving the comment section is important because as they are now they aren't spoiler friendly at all which is obviously not good.

 

To add to Meta's post, I can say for certainty that it IS possible to make a spoiler tab for the comments AND at the same time separate it for each ep so only spoilers for the ep u watched are in the spoiler tab. I know this is possible because I've seen this implemented on a rival site (A sub group with a few dubs) Now as to whether this is duable on XF (our site) that I don't know.

And yeah, I see the gif avis working again now too.

 

Well I assumed since we had a normal report button again that the comment section was opened to comments. Plus like I said a proper comment section opens the site up to becoming more open and drawing in a community. Because not everyone feels like going to the forum to post their thoughts but they don't want their thoughts to be lost in minutes in chatango. So a comment section where proper comments are allowed is good especially if our goal is to grow the community and increase site traffic.

not having a comment section will make us come across and lacking to some people who are used to most anime sites having them.

 

OBJECTION! *Says ace attorney style* I never once advertised any site and the only reason I mentioned their name is because how else am I supposed to convey which site I saw the thing on? If people don't know the name, how can they see for themselves what I'm talking about and get a better grasp of it? (Some people are visual people u know) PLUS, it's a sub site, not like we JD have any subs you know so, it's not really going to take away much traffic if at any, esp seeing how this thread is for suggestions to improve this site, I doubt many people that aren't members here would bother coming to this kind of thread. Still, seeing how u edited my post (Why does it not show a mod edited my post? That should ALWAYS show and a comment left in it to say why modding right?, sorry if I'm mistaken on this), if Spor or Kiri or anyone staff wise wishes to know which site I was talking about, all they need to do is pm me or get the name from you.

 

he just said be careful about getting into the habit of it. naming other anime sites on here even once is technically breaking the rules but it's an ignorable offense as long as it's not done often.

When possible it's best to simply describe what you mean as much as possible. That's not to say I never do the same thing. But in any case it is true you should avoid naming other sites as it's against the rules. Even if that other site isn't exactly cometition with us it's just simpler to outlaw that kind of thing in general than get into the complex debate about what sites to allow mentions of and which ones to not. again it's not a super enforced rule and everyone breaks it from time to time. But it's still a rule and we all need to at least try to follow it.

 

Actually the site I use for most of my sub anime has a pretty active comment system and people use it for all kinds of things from a quick comment on their thoughts on an episode to a thought out post about something in particular. They of course have a forum for more in depth discussion but if you aren't already a member or don't feel like finding the right thread then it's a moot point. Plus most sites seem to deal with bots well enough somehow so it's certainly not impossible.

But if you want to keep Drupal what about putting drupal into the embedding tab so that each episode has it's own Drupal instead of it being for the entire series.

Point is I think if we develop the comment system a little more it will make the site more appealing especially to new comers. It will give them more reason to stay rather than go to one of the sites with a better comment system.

 

@Supernatural-Knight Ah, I see, I had no idea they'd added more dubs recently, I've only seen a handful here and there but mostly subs, subs and more subs. lol I also don't use FB or keep up with stuff on FB but yeah, I'll try to refrain from mentioning other streaming site's names in JD and sorry about that.

@Sporadic Just saying I wasn't over reacting. If u noticed I said objection ace attorney style, that's a video game series (incase u didn't know) where the main char says objection and people online use that in a friendly/playful manner, not typically from what I've seen is it ever used in a bad way or in the actual over reacting way. The rest was me just explaining my thoughts and such as that's something I just do.

 

Centering detailed discussion on the forum is how the forum can stay active and encourage community engagement. If you have a discussion in the comments section, it takes away from one of the core functions a forum provides. Leaving the comment section as-is, IMHO, is the best way to promote forum use and activity. I'm not sure how the "More Info" button is supposed to work, but I think it would be a good idea to add "discuss the anime on the forum with others" (or some other, less generic sentence) to promote the idea of joining the forum and discussing whatever they watched with others on the forum. But, that's just my 2¢.

 

Most people aren't going to stop by the forums unless they have a good bit to say especially if they aren't already members. A better comment section gives people a place to make smaller comments and if they grow to like the site they might check out the forums.

 

You don't need a better comment section for that. Disqus is more than enough of a comment system, plus anyone who is a member of Disqus through other sites (such as IGN, for the gamers out there) can just sign-in and comment. If they want to edit, they have that ability as well. Want to reply? Disqus has that too. I don't think you can get any better than Disqus, other than using forum software, considering their comment system lets you write a huge article in a single comment (and yes, I've seen comments reach almost as big as the original article they were commenting on before).

 

I'm not saying we don't use it. But I'm sying we should find a way to add spoiler tags or tie the comments to the tab somehow so that each episode has it's own comment section. Because as it stands now any comment you ake shows up on all episodes of that show that that just seems like spoilers waiting to happen.

 

so comment system/spoiler tag for it aside @Sporadic & @Kiri Is there a way to improve the poll system? In the anime café we're supposed to vote for 2 anime, no more, no less, yet there has been a few times (Inlcuding now) an uneven vote meaning someone either foted for only 1 or more than 2. Is there any way we can get the poll to only allow the exact number we're allowed to vote for and no more/no less?

 

Whoops, somehow missed this post.
For ovas/specials/shorts, not that I can think of atm except anything in gen that we don't have uploaded yet along with all the Shakugan No Shana shorts and such if we don't have them. (I doubt we do, otherwise I woulda watched them back when I saw the anime) As for the music, most never get a dub ver. of the song, so when u said or in English, did u mean English subbed?

EDIT: Pretty sure we don't have the Mahoromatic specials either. (The I'm home special has 2 eps ad the 2nd season special might be sub only but has 1 ep) Most sites don't have those specials to watch, only recently did I fine a site with them on them. (This after having to wait sereral months after no results turned up)

 

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