Enas:
The chat has still leak problems, although admitedly since some months now, they're not as bad.

Hiccupx:
I realise that sometimes it can be hard see that this website is being updated, because so much of the work we do is on the back end. As admins, we probably don't shout enough about website updates, but then, if it's on the back end it's probably not of that much interest to members. Anyway here goes:


Registration/Account Blocking:

We have spend a temendous amount of time this year on improving the registration validation process, to stop bots and spammers creating accounts. We have over 20 validation checks, written by AI, that automatically block the majority of them.

For those that do manage to create accounts, we have new scripts that check the uploaded content to highlight spammers which we then immediately ban.

We're never going to be able to keep out all spammers on a site like this because we want to make it easy to sign up for genuine members and also protect your privacy. Therefore we haven't gone down the phone verification route. We've also learnt that most of the spammers we get are not bots, but people sat in data centers in the far east who do this for a living.


Member Blocking Feature:

This stops blocked members from contacting you but it doesn't stop them viewing your content. The maxmium number of blocks is 100, which we believe should be plenty on a 'community' website. After all, what would be the point in joining a community site, and then blocking hundreds of members?


Chat:

Chat was completely re-written this year as part of the streaming feature (still in beta), however the visible functionality hasn't changed, so it would be difficult to tell as a user. However, with nice clean chat code we're now in a good position to do a major overhaul of the front end at some point. There's a number of possibilities here, including perhaps building the video streaming into the chat?

Thickid:
In terms of most calories per dollar that I have found, while still being palatable, has been premade frosting. At times I would eat it out tif the container. I have also tried coffee creamer, and Nutella and peanut butter sandwiches

Urchie:
The big packs of oatmeal cream pies have a lot of calories, 990 for just 3 of them and they go down easy

Biggzv987:
Still seems like it isn't fattening enough

Morbidly A Beast:
I’m a fatmaxxing caloriepilled obese chad fr fr

I don’t think it’s serious is probably irony

Canuck:
i think the comments about the age of this site, changes and moderation are a little unfair. there are a number of active mods, and there have been a bunch of updates over the last couple of years.

are there still bugs and quirks, sure. i almost enjoy the occasional "chat leak" now.


Beachside Farmer:
This site needs a fresh overhaul. It is very outdated and crumbling by the week. Chat was promised to be fixed last year, now this year and it's slated for "late this year." Believe it when it happens. We have new bots and scammers joining daily using vpn's which are blocked yet there is a workaround somehow.

People go off site and find out the hard way they are being scammed. There has to be a way to modernize a site like this where a block button works. What makes no sense is when you block someone but if you are following them you still get their updates. Like what?! Makes no sense.

Canuck:
i think the comments about the age of this site, changes and moderation are a little unfair. there are a number of active mods, and there have been a bunch of updates over the last couple of years.

are there still bugs and quirks, sure. i almost enjoy the occasional "chat leak" now.


Beachside Farmer:
This site needs a fresh overhaul. It is very outdated and crumbling by the week. Chat was promised to be fixed last year, now this year and it's slated for "late this year." Believe it when it happens. We have new bots and scammers joining daily using vpn's which are blocked yet there is a workaround somehow.

People go off site and find out the hard way they are being scammed. There has to be a way to modernize a site like this where a block button works. What makes no sense is when you block someone but if you are following them you still get their updates. Like what?! Makes no sense.

Canuck:
i think the comments about the age of this site, changes and moderation are a little unfair. there are a number of active mods, and there have been a bunch of updates over the last couple of years.

are there still bugs and quirks, sure. i almost enjoy the occasional "chat leak" now.

munchies' note re: blocking reducing community engagement got me thinking about the "format" of a site, and how that influences how users interact. for instance, this site is primarily message, forum & chat driven. blocking in regards to personal messages and chat seems pretty straightforward, but in a forum situation it becomes more complex. especially when threads sometimes are active for years!

when i think of social media, i think of x, bluesky and feabie - posts are made, they can be shared, re-shared, and they are not dispersed and not cohesive. comments can be made on the share of the post, and never relate back to the source, etc. in that situation, blocking is much more important because you want to exclude someone's material from your "feed" which is curated by an algorithm. whereas in a forum you just don't open the thing and ignore the thread.

there is another forum that i frequent that has one active participant that i find really annoying. (i am sure others think they're great, not judging - just my taste.) whenever i see they are the last to respond to a thread, i just bypass it. i ignore it. i am not interested.

so i kind of understand the webmaster's stance - what would blocking do our forum? there was one troublesome user some time ago (initials: j.s.) who, i believe was banned from the site. so as long as these individuals are being dealt with, i would say i think it works, doesn't it?