/yakuza/ - site meta-discussion

I am now officially retired as owner. The site has been transferred to Bal/Seagal's server, and the domain will be transferred next week. Please update your bookmarks since we have moved to sushigirl.cafe, the old domain won't keep working forever.

Don't worry, I don't plan to completely disappear. I will stay on staff as an admin, and as tech consultant for the server. And, I really do like this site, and will probably post from time to time. I will be sticking around on the Discord as well.

It's been great everyone, thanks for a wonderful time. I am going to shift my focus to other things now, but I won't forget this place.

And with that, please welcome Bal aka Seagal in their new role as Owner!

What's the point in continuing to piss away all that money and bandwidth? The last thing the Internet needs is yet another forum graveyard and ghost town.

Hello Sushis!

Currently our domain name is sushigirl.us. However, the new owner Bal lives outside of the United States, so it will not be possible to transfer him the .us domain name when the handover happens. I will instead forward sushigirl.us to a new primary domain owned by Bal.

Unfortunately I have not been able to contact Itamae to transfer the old sushigirl.tokyo, but I have purchased three alternate domain names for us to choose from.

Help me decide! What should our new primary domain name be?

The options:
* Sushigirl.net
* Sushigirl.moe
* Sushigirl.cafe

I have modified the software today to be able to block the actual endpoints of the shortened URLs usually included in CP spam. This should help a lot with slowing down the spam; the spammers have infinite URL shorteners but so far they all point to the same few places. We will start checking endpoints and adding them to the blocklist soon. Hopefully browsing will become less stressful.

This modification has also been submitted as a pull request to the main vichan repo. Hopefully they pick it up and other sites can start using it.

P.S. I also upgraded us to the newest version of the software. Stuff could break so please let me know if something isn't working right.

it's not like it really makes a difference or anything, but is there any reason the audio on the main page comes from an embedded youtube video rather than just an uploaded file? i guess it works either way

Hey mods.

I just wanted to say that when I click on /kaitensushi/ and the /hell/ threads appear, but they're automatically hidden, I just want to say that I appreciate that. I think it's nice that there's a guaranteed deposit of negativity and I am guaranteed to not see any of it unless I intentionally click on the related links.
I appreciate the design choice. That is all.

Update: New /otaku/ board with landing sticky for Samachan users at >>>/otaku/

Hello sushis, I have a proposal I want to run by you. I have been in discussion with a group of users from the recently shuttered Samachan, who are looking for a new place to live. They were a fairly comfy site with just two boards, and they are in talks with me over how they might adapt to living here without disrupting our own culture too much. I think with the addition of a single board, the rest of their content could probably fit into the existing boards.

I wanted to run this by the userbase to see if there are objections or concerns, and have a conversation about these, before giving them an answer. As a condition of coming here they would be expected to use polite language and follow the rules. Currently the planning group is just a few users, with the rest of them scattered and out of contact with each other.

Samachan.org on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20200323151839/https://samachan.org/

Following is our email exchange, split between posts. Please give it a read before commenting.

Thought this would be a good place to post any issues users run into. The only one I have dealt with yet is that attempting to go to the catalog of any board returns a 404.
PS. Ty for bringing back this lovely place <3

Hello everyone.

I've been here an awfully long time, haven't I? A very, very long time. I first inherited Uboachan way back in 2011, 14 years ago now, and I began carrying forward Sushichan a few years after that. And it's been fun. I got to befriend and even meet some of you. Some became IRL friends. I even dated a few of my imageboard users. If it weren't for these imageboards, I am really not sure where my life would be right now.

But, over time, I changed, as people do. I am a very different person than when I started out here. Very different. And so, it's been kind of hard for me actually, to keep the act going for this long. In a lot of ways I don't really see eye-to-eye with my userbase the way I did in the past. And though I still love visiting, and my position is kind of flattering, I have had the nagging feeling for a long time now that I am not really the right person for the job anymore.

No, I am not really the kind of person anymore, who ought to be running an imageboard. As much as I love these sites and want them to survive, being the owner of two imageboards is in some ways a burden on my current persona. It feels like I have to split myself down the middle, to keep running these sites. And with the way things are going in the world, and in my personal life, I am about to have other problems to worry about.

So, I am passing the torch on Uboachan and Sushichan, just as they came to me in the past. The sites will live on, but I will not be at the helm. That role will go to long-time friend and board user Balthasar, also known as Seagal. I really think that he is the best man for the job. In the coming months, I will be transferring everything to another server under his control. I will stay on as a user and tech consultant, hanging out now and then, and helping with backend issues as Seagal gets the feel of things. And, as the boards' owner, I will retire and move on to other things.

It has been an honor. Thanks for everything.
- Seisatsu

i dont like that pinned threads display only one reply