/baw/ - General Discussion

Thank you anyway. Stupid question: are you animoose?

>>419674
No, he is anonymoose. A completely different moose.

The archives have no database whatsoever, so deleting anything from it would end up throwing a bunch of errors unless all the html files are manually edited out.

And on general principle I wouldn't want to revise the past.

That's fair. Ah well, I figured I'd ask

Technically it COULD be edited out, but the archives are also checked by the wayback machine and google, and updating them will just flag them as a newer page, and then they would get ranked higher / get archived again, which is kinda not what you want. Getting re-crawled means people can compare the old and new content and see that your thread got removed.
Oh and you'd need to tell us what you want edited out in the first place, and then people would know that they should check your old art.

tbh we get so low traffic that you really don't have to worry about it. The archives mostly get linked to in offsite comments made 10 years ago. I don't think anyone will find them unless they specifically search for "{artist name} plus4chan archive".

>>419397
It is arguable because PS1 does hardware dithering to fake a higher colour count and has such a low resolution that CRT screens make it look better. The screen is way sharper because the CRT can match the resolution of the game, while a flat panel would do some basic bilinear stretching with variable amount of ringing noise to make it run on its native resolution.
PS2 doesn't run in high resolution or in widescreen (except for very few select titles), and many games actually use 480i, so it would look better on a decent CRT too. Except for the games that actually do progressive output, which is not that common.

PS3 and above, games with digital output, will of course look the best on digital panels.

>>419398
You were wise to use the key word, "arguable". Because if you have a good deinterlacer (either built-in or something like a Framemeister), you can make 480i and 576i look good on a flat panel. And, arguably 240/288p of PS1 games does not look better on a CRT, since it introduces black scanlines.

>>419399
The problem isn't the deinterlacing but that the low-res polygon graphics look really really blurry when stretched out to a HD panel. A good scaler helps, but those have their own downsides: Framemeister is extremely expensive and EOL, and has huge problems when a game switches resolutions mid-game, while the OSSC is good for 240p and switches resolutions fast but it is absolutely trash for interlaced games (it makes them look WORSE).

the Crt scanlines and shadow mask / aperture grille layouts do end up making the graphics much sharper, since each pixel is more defined, as opposed to a blurry soup on a hd panel.

>>409833
HA HA. GOOD LUCK.

I saved the threads I cared about. did you?

>>409835
>saving threads
It's the content you need to save.

Just in case you haven't seen them:
https://boards.plus4chan.org/archives.php

>>419214
I'm surprised it hasn't been removed yet, seems like a bot post.

>>419214
>>419215
I was AFK, it's gone now.

>people complain about windows 10 privacy
>that update deletes your personal documents so hackers cant get them
I call that progress

I quit facebook years ago. Fucking good riddance.

It was probably something that was done automatically due to lack of use. Do we even know who created it?

HOLA, SENOR!

Just keep politics in the politics thread and we'll all have a good time.

>>418861
The last politics thread is not bumping anymore so might as well use this as the new one?

>>418867

>>418457
I definitely think those are fair points, I just think in most cases JS should be a bonus enhancer rather then a requirement. On some sites that can't be done, but forums and imageboards rarely have a need to require JS just to load and post (captcha being the biggest exception I can think of)

>>418462
On a fundamental level, an imageboard (or any social network site for that matter) does not need it, yes, and I do make it a point to get every site I work on done with bare minimum javascript. But on a practical level, the site needs it really badly, to make things simpler and faster for the users. People don't sit in front of the monitor pressing F5 F5 F5 when waiting for replies; they expect their phone to ping to notify them of a new reply. That's just how it is now.

Regardless of that, I want the new design to retain every function of the current one, there must be no regressions. And that means there's still some work left to be done.

>>418456
>I'm happy to test on demo whenever needed.
I've updated it with an alpha/preview for you to check.

For what purpose?

>>418406
To try and see if it works.

>>418404
I noticed yesterday. Time to post.

>>418168
Occasionally being mistaken for spam is just the price of looking enigmatic.

>>418170
I can sympathize with that

EVERYTHINGS COMING UP NEWGROUNDS!