I like the design.

>>55050
Thank you! ヽ(´∇`)ノ

I think the idea of user-created boards was proven to be a liability with 8ch, etc. (then again, even reddit itself makes for a demonstration of this).
I don't understand how your rules help with "putting more emphasis on more friendly topics and discussions". The only thing that would point to that is the no trolling rule, but in practice we all know it'll be used to justify mod abuse. Also any good troll will be able to either skirt this by acting retarded, or the false positive rate will be too high for the community, so this is like a double edge sword except the edge pointing toward the enemy is dull for some reason.
Finally, I recommend starting with only 1 board (or 1 + meta). You can afford to have 10 people discussing a range of topics on the same board, "cross-polination" of this type is healthy for any community. As the community grows, topic boards will spawn naturally to discuss topics that either have a hard time staying alive on /b/ (or whatever board you select as your first) or are starting to crush it in absolute discussion volume.

Good luck anon.

I was just reminded by a site that took the "anyone can create their own board" idea to the extreme, iro2.net
Basically anyone could create their own board, but boards were not collected all in a list, rather they were connected to other boards. To connect two boards, you would post a board into a thread on another board, and then that thread would from there on be shared between the two of them and they would be connected. The connections would fade as new ones were formed, of course.
It was a pretty cool experiment: the owner paid for ads on 4chan and brought in a ton of people who landed in the /entryway/ board only to immediately spread out in all directions, getting farther and farther away from the first board and forming their own circles.
However it was probably a bitch for the owner to moderate the site even if the only official rule was the one against illegal content.
Sadly the site has been dead for a year, though it's still up if you wanna check it out
https://iro2.net/entryway/briyoh4s/
https://iro2.net/meta/eqtbhmlq/
https://iro2.net/v--video-games/wcr7t1tl/

pic related was a map someone made a year ago showing how all the active boards were connected

>>55053
That's a pretty cool concept. Although it's somewhat unrelated, the first thing it makes me think of is "neocities for imageboards, with auto-webring feature".
>iro2
>hiraki3
Related?

>>55053
It's always cool to see projects like this occasionally sprout up from within the ground. Even if it didn't fully work out in the end, still shows that the interwebs still have some creativity left in them. Just depends on where you can find it and how you can find people to let you in on it.

>>55052
These are good points. In response to the first half of your reply: I see what you mean, we'll do our best to prevent anything that made 8ch as it is. I understand that our current rules written aren't foolproof, and I can already tell that this won't exactly be perfect, but we'll try to adapt our rules with whatever happens.

>Finally, I recommend starting with only 1 board (or 1 + meta).
I agree; we created more boards than I would’ve liked. I’ll keep /v/ and /a/... but delete some of the other ones we don't really need. Thanks for your feedback, we'll see what we can do.

I made a post!

>>55056


I think the first problem with userboards is moderation and cross-board hostility (they're related at this level), and that is caused in large parts by board acronym type and size (i.e. "defaultness"). For example, any imageboard dweller will go to /v/ expecting videogames and /a/ expecting anime. This means that /v/ and /a/ will be the most populated boards for those topics simply by default. What happens if the admin there is really shitty? You'd think people would just 'make another board and leave', but that requires the other board to gain enough traction that they won't be crushed by spam from the board they're fleeing (they do need to advertise that they exist after all). Related to this, the converse can also be an issue: admins are good but some people want to fuck shit up so they make dissident boards. The third related problem is balkanization, where there are 10 alternative boards, all dead. This is related to the 'tyranny of the majority' problem: while /v/ may be shit, since it's the only alive board due to /v2/, /v3/... /v11/ in total being more popular, but as individuals being so empty, the bad admin still wins.

Briefly: in the past, other people proposed that userboards should not use 'classic' board names. While I think that's a bandaid solution, that may be worth investigating. I think you also need to solve board listing. It must not be by popularity, but also not by novelty... and I don't know if showing the board activity at all is useful or not (beside if it's outright dead).

Unlike hotwheels's moderation, it is probably a better idea that the global mods to go down in the grass, or at least to introduce "moderation rules" (to prevent local board admins to go too crazy), with a "mod report" system so that global mods can receive an escalated ban appeal, or a ban request for a mod. The difficulty is that global mods now need expertise on all the subboards.

The final problem is balkanization: the same problem for which you want to start your site with few boards and let them grow organically as the community grows. I have no idea how to fix this and I think it's the achilles's heel of these systems.

On the other hand, maybe >>55054 is possible (neocities of imageboards). In that case instead of user boards, you want user imageboards. The basic distinctions are as follows:
- Users create sites, with potentially many boards
- URL should be <sitename>.hiraki3.ch/<boardname> for this reason
- Significant user access to html/js/css modifications
- Landing page for the imageboard
- Microblog system (news or otherwise)

Then you don't have to care about moderation on the imageboards you host except legally speaking, and this solves balkanization and bad moderation in the same heyuri solves nu4chan. I think it's a pretty elegant solution overall, but I bet it would be a some effort to implement. That's probably not worth thinking about if you can't get your own imageboard off the ground first though

Once again, all the best anon. I'm very interested in knowing how your effort goes and what you end up learning while managing your site.

Without saying, Kaguya is deservs more
Moron! It is not that i am in not in love with kaguya or anything... I wanted to praise him!


While on topic, hikari3 looks cool and all, but what it's lacking for now is post to comment on! Make some yourself to get some sort of discussing going.

Is it really worth spitting our already small community into 2 sites? What can you do on there that you can't do on here?

>>55089
He's not really splitting the community, just advertising his site. You can totally use two sites at once, can't you?

Heyuri is my only home!

Heyuri is a safe place. A fun place. It's the place to be.
But sometimes you have to go to work, too

>>55095
that is true.... But i use Heyuri at work too!

Theres a /v/ board
I will post the first thread there!

>>55091
Why multitask when you can numeroustask?