I'll start.
Can we try a more efficient site design please?
Thematic boards made 2chan and 4chan big and popular, but wastebin boards make an image board slow to a crawl and go offline.
I don't want that to happen to us.
2chan's and 4chan's design are the best in terms of space, moderation, and user interface.
My goal is less boards.
Less boards mean less work for moderation.
Too many boards split the userbase.
Unintuitively named boards confuse new posters.
Crossposting is good and should be encouraged.
I can go on.
Currently we have 14 boards, 400 post bump limit a thread, 200 threads a board, and 6 attachments a post.
I don't see why BBWchan can't streamline its design.
Let's say we reduce unused space to 6-7 boards, 300 post bump limit a thread, 150 threads a board max, 5 attachments a post, and we can add an archive for 1-10 threads that've been recently bumped off.
Please correct me but I think my humble suggestion reduces space to 1/4th of the current bloat. Pun intended.
I hate the trend of chan's going offline one after another.
You can't tell me 4chan is "over-optimized" and that draw and write threads for every subforum isn't a major deal of their success.
And let me continue with how much I resent the trend of image boards decreasing and disappearing.
So how do we stop this?
Currently most boards are flooded with low count threads asking for the same things - Spam is rampant.
First let's make the frontpage less cluttered - mascot, list of boards, and donation link.
Here are my board ideas.
/bbw/ - BBWchan, the site itself, general discussions, suggestions and compliments and complaints, only board with IDs
/c/ - chubby, smallfat, pudgy, slightly overweight, not yet unhealthy
/f/ - fat, bigfat, overweight, obese, definitely unhealthy
/i/ - inflation, because, but also everything boobs and butts, also pregnancy
/s/ - slob, lack of hygiene, smells, farts and vomit and shit and piss - ban threads outside of this containment board with contempt
/z/ - furry, everything non-human that's clearly based on an animal - see directly above
Rules:
No furry outside of /z/
No smells and smelly substances outside of /s/
No board-specific subjects in /bbw/
Do you know where a requested 3dpd board can be placed? Beyond /bbw/ at the beginning and /z/ at the end and /s/ to force smellfags into, I didn't think any further than "I want normies to *get* this place."
Next on the list is cultivating healthy forums.
How do we invite newfriends without the pressing need to explain every single currect board?
How do we get new posters who can draw or write to check out the site?
How do we deal with newcomers who make a new threads for literally every little thing?
And here are my thread ideas.
/ctc/ sticky (locked) - CHECK THE CATALOG BEFORE MAKING A NEW THREAD
>post #1 - board-related sticky image like pic related for /c/, the board mascot for /bbw/, Snake saluting for /f/, the guy who shouts UNF at a circle for /i/, the braaap guy for /s/, etc.
/draw/ thread, include rules like "don't bump requests"
/edit/ thread, also coloring
/write/ thread
/cap/tions thread
/gif/ and animations thread, for gif and webm and video files, but not irl
/games/ thread, also modding, but not official gaming franchises
/beg/ thread
/lost/ content thread
/art/ists' thread, because most artists don't fill 300 posts much less 400
/irl/ real life thread, same as above but for real life gainers or inflaters
/rp/ roleplay thread
/mime/ing thread, for pretenders and fat suits or fursuits
/ai/ thread, report posts outside of this containment thread
Pre-posted generals are meant to make it clear to new posters that mods can and will warn them for spamming threads and ban them if they don't stop. I have more but I think 10% of a catalog is more than enough to force newbies to behave. Warn them if they start a duplicate thread and ban them for 24 hours if they do it again. Also demand a subject for making new threads. In that way we can reduce dozens of over specific threads to a handful highly concentrated ones.
Next on the list is three tools for the userbase: sage, warn, and ban.
Make them visible.
I think it'd be funny to read USER WAS BANNED FOR NOT CHECKING THE CATALOG in red bolds.
Keep the "report my post" replacement filter.
With these tools it'll be much easier to tell new posters to check available threads before making a new one for a subject like navel fucking or a prolific artist like Axel Rosered.
Otherwise it's free real estate.
tl;dr - Rename boards, reduce their number, turn the home page into an alphabetically sorted board list, replace stickies with a relevant funny tongue in cheek image, make "bump" a warnable offense, reduce catalog size to 150, add an archive for 5-10 recently dead threads, reduce attachments to 5, remove IDs except for /gen/ aka /bbw/, and add a sage and autosage function so bad threads can serve as a buffer.
Make one last archive of the whole site and start fresh, or implement the above step by step starting with board names and removing the least active ones.
FAQ:
>Are you a German?
I wish.
>Am I a German?
You wish.
>Do you regularly drive >100mph?
Yes.