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Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

Something Awful actually has a front page, yeah and it's terrible. Now that SA seems to be administered again, let's put something better in place. What's it going to be?

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Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

Would it be technically feasible to have a "Hot Threads" page? One that shows the most commented / highly rated / most-often-bumped threads over the last 8 hours or so. That would show you what's new outside of your own thread bubble.

Would also be cool to see a page that just quotes all the times a YouTube or Twitter link is embedded, to show what the hive mind is thinking about. But I guess that's very niche and weird.

Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

I think we have to figure out what the purpose of the front page is going to be, there doesn't seem to be a consensus.

Should it be a storefront to subsidize the forums?
Should it highlight the forums activity?
Attract new posters?
Deliver legitimately great content, like a carousel of the best threads?

Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

Ultimately it's up to Jeffrey. Eventually he will probably have to deal with that dumb page and maybe a bit of good inspiration / community engagement can tip the scales this way or that

Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

I mean if all else fails put some of the classics on there, like the groverhaus thread, bathdoom and what not

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Lord Stimperor
Jun 13, 2018

I'm a lovable meme.

Regarding the logo, if that new grenade won't be accepted, I'll offer my humble suggestion:


- Stylized goatse
- hands turned into the wings of an art deco wings emblem
- instead of an rear end in a top hat, globe or globe-grenade in the middle


Think of this, but wings are fingers with ring, circle in the middle replaced by Bert's grenade

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