STAGE48 Feedback & Suggestions V

Oh it's absolutely not. It's a culture / Japan vs. the outside thing. That it's odd, strange or weird is totally what people would say... on another forum. I would expect people more or less anywhere outside Japan to be slightly put off by 15-year olds in bikinis. That's only natural because it's a part of modern Japanese culture that isn't shared worldwide. And trust me, it's in no way limited to idols. AKB is only the tip of the iceberg. There's a huge market for underaged gravure models.
There was a time when I used to think it inappropriate. Especially tight people would say certain things border on pedophilia. But that's them. We know that it's not like that. At least for AKB. Or... at least for most of the fans. The good thing about Stage48 is that it's exclusively about AKB48, meaning we don't need to worry what someone else on the outside thinks about the group because we're all likeminded here in a way. I'd say most of us are pretty much past not understanding why the girls do those kind of photoshoots. You don't have to like it, but we need to offer/host it.

I don't have a problem with your comments at all. You're not the only one. I was just saying I can't make them influence my decision on whether we're gonna have more pictures in the threads or not. There's other pros and cons.

 

And I don't have problems with gravure pics, when I see them I only shake my head and went on. I say I like AKB at about 75 %, in the missing percent you find such things together with other things. Bye.

 

I am strongly against merging galleries and discussion threads, even though this might lead to content redundancy.
If the member galleries are handled properly by us, the users, then they represent super nice tools for archiving a member's picture releases, even in chronological order. For example, we started to comprehensively collect all recent pictures n Sae's gallery, and i do not think we have missed any picture for months now.
This might have contributed to the dramatic decrease of activity in the discussion thread (as there is no urgent need to post pictures there anymore), but let us face it - "How cute"-worship posts and picspam is not what makes a thread interesting.

About the gravure thingy, every westerner needs to adapt. Frankly, i would never show underage gravure to my friends, because this would immediately lead to misunderstandings and maybe even accusations. However, it is a major part of the AKB experience, and to be honest most of the pictures aren't even that provocative - they show just girls in swimwear. Some member's popularity are hugely based on their gravure work, so there is no way to exclude this from any comprehensive 48G forum.

 

A board is not tumblr. But I think you underestimate the power of phpBB. Imgur is a solution but technically, it is a bad solution. Too many clicks just to view a full size image, no popup to avoid page loading, etc.

As said, I think most people come to this fandom for entertainment, not discussion or contributions. And there are some exclusive threads for discussion in this board, anyway. Furthermore, the only time that I saw some real "discussions" in members' thread is when she has some issues such as scandals.

It's largely enforcement issue. It could easily make into a rule. And you think most people will post tons of images into a member thread? First, a thread is related to a member and she herself should not have a lots of photos in a short time (I have no idea why you post images of an event to the event thread but split images of members to different threads). Second, posting images to a host and then copying them here is time-consuming. Attempting to doing it repeatedly in a large scale can be considered spam/troll. Most images are posted by veteran members who should know how to post.

..... you think spreading images across multiple pages is a good way to organize images? A standard way to archive images/valuable posts is to aggregate their links into a single post and put it at some prominent places (first pages, sticky, etc.). That is the way to organize them in a flexible way, by chronological order, by gallery, by type, etc.

Summary: The reason seems to be technical. Technologies are built to empower us, not constrain us. There are always solutions.

 

Your solution to the constraining technologies would be the merging of discussion and gallery threads and the removal of technical barriers to post pictures of any size?
What would be the advantage of that?

 

IF I could please interrupt the current convo for a bit..,

I don't mean to be forceful in any way, but I just hope that if anyone who has the authority do move threads has time, please do move these threads to the Graduated Girls Thread.

SNH48 Graduated Members include...

viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5730 Gu Xiang Jun (announced, and probably left, considering how she didn't participate in Team SII's 2nd stage shonichi)
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5732 Dong Zhi Yi (same case as above)

Members below already are not part of the group.
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5729 He Yi Chen
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5733 Ding Zi Yan
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5736 Chen Li
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5710 Zhang Xin Fang
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5728 Jiang Yu Xi
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5708 Zeng Yu Jia
viewtopic.php?f=54&t=5717 Wang Fei Si

JKT48 Graduated Members
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=4772 Diasta
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=5466 Octi
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=4781 Stella
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=5452 Dellia
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=5460 Nadhifa

Thanks in advance!

 

And at the same time clean up in the birthday threads. There are growing moss on some of them.

 

..... either I don't understand you or you don't understand me

First, there are no "technical" barriers to post pictures of any size. The barrier is artificial set by the admin due to reasons as explained by HRP. I only pointed out that there are ways to accomplish the same thing without constraints. Splitting the members' images from their threads is also an odd constraints. Less constraints, more freedom.

Notice that I don't offer any concrete solutions besides pointing on ImageResizer. Most technical solutions require admin privilege to understand the technical details of the board.

The benefits are clear. You pointed out some yourself.

other benefits are: flexible organization, more discussions, more exposures

 

I guess its all about personal preferences in the end. Look at this gallery: viewtopic.php?f=55&t=87&start=500
Last year i started to do weekly updates in which any known picture release was collected and posted as thumbnail. The result is a comprehensive backcatalogue of pictures without discussion breaks. Like a blog-like database (without sorting, of course). In fact it is so complete that even Stud hasn't posted there for a couple of months now
I really like that style. I dont know about others of course, but i would very much like to stick this format.

What i do not like are threads with mixed discussion and pic spam up to 1080p. I am sitting behind a 100 Mbit cable connection (well "up to"^^, but its the fastest connection for consumers i am aware of in GER), and still message boards without pic size limitation can be awefully slow to load. And i guess we have lots of users using 1-6 Mbit DSL.

On the other hand, the 575px barrier is a little unhandy, especially when certain pictures can not be directly linked because the forum cannot recognize picture sizes. Twitter is such an example.

 

Sorry but in this page http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/AKB48

Should be like "The group has their own theater in Don Quijote, on Akihabara"

Not "The group has their own theater in Don Quixote, on Akihabara"

 

Uhm... what kind of English is that anyway? "On Akihabara"?

Make that "on the eighth floor of the Don Quijote store in Akihabara, Tokyo".

You registered just for that??

 

Welcome to the forum, then )

 

We definitely attempt to update OPs and tell ourselves to give good examples, but it's not reaching everyone. I have a certain template for what single thread OPs are supposed to look like, but to some being the first to open a thread is more important than having a proper introduction. Members not wanting to be responsible for the OP should generally not create threads in the News forum.

 

I believe it would be better to revive the News and Releales thread. Twitter isn't a part of the forum and the more the info is scattered the less people will read it (I'm not checking s48, G+ twitter, that new site that is being built and all the other sites that might be relevant everyday, that's for sure). Besides, it should be something where anyone was allowed to post (with a clear guideline, of course), because even the admins and mods can miss news (or discover them late).

 

Hi, sorry if this is an answered question or in the wrong topic.

Is there any other interface for this forum? It's not in tapatalk.

It's a bit pain in the butt to open it in chrome (with the zooming and data usage and all)