New Homepage Discussion

Sjogre
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@The Smiling Pony  
Looks good, but I’m going to suggest putting the Top Scoring/Commented on the activity page proper. As is, displaying more than one eats up more than a single image in width.
 
To be honest, beefing up the activity page and mentioning in the sidebar that it provides more information is probably a good idea. One could list more forum posts and comments on there, as well as a better sample of Top Scoring/Commented images. Could also use the activity page as a place to nominate images for Featured, assuming that you don’t make a thread for that.
The Smiling Pony
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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@dt  
We can probably add subscriptions (would have to consult coders). We want Forum posts to be visible in some way or another, as the goal there is to cut down on “barely pony related” and “obligatory pony” images (TV meme, nature is so fascinating meme, etc) by forcing people to realize that we do have forums for off-topic stuff.
Dr Outback
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@dt  
Instead of recent comments and recent forum posts, can it be subscriptions instead?
 
Don’t know why people are against recent comments and forum post. It helps me discover new images and discussions. also isn’t notifications there for you to keep track of what your subscribed to?
nyxabuse
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

I use a netbook, and I think the currently suggested layout would be horrible on my tiny screen. I would have only two images per row. This would also apply to tablets and smartphones (though I understand you have problems with smartphones already).
 
Also, it breaks consistency with the general image viewing pages, which IMO you should avoid unless you have a very good reason to go for it. Anyway, you know what I think you should go for: put it all on the top of the page, so I can just scroll past it if I want – this would also work well for touchscreen stuff. This also breaks consistency, but I think it would do it in a less distracting way, since scrolling is almost a subconscious action for most internet users.
Dr Outback
Cool Crow - "Caw!" An awesome tagger
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Right, I (alone, as a person, not I AM ADNIN MAN AND AM MAKING THIS HAPPEN) had some free minutes and whipped this up as a concept. Feel free to get irrationally angry and yell at me, as is natural.
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Why isn’t the blue bar all the way across the screen?
The Smiling Pony
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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@Dr Outback  
Because it’s just cosmetic; as soon as you hit any link on it, it’ll transfer you to the corresponding Image page. Having it cross the whole page would be confusing as it would go into the space of the sidebar, which it wouldn’t affect.
barbeque
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Thread Starter - Tag alias request thread
Artist -
Bronze Bit -

I’m just going to toss a few cents in here.
 
  • Livestreams that are “off air” are not really useful to have on the homepage. I don’t really use them anyway, but listing only the currently on-air ones (limited to some number x at most) would save vertical screenspace if there aren’t many on-air.  
  • All time top scoring isn’t really of any value, imo. It would just start swarming people towards at most a handful of images, resulting in the long run in like 1000+ yay’s on those few images. Perhaps replace them with top scoring in the last 24 hours or something. The headers could be links to lists with more images. If you really want all-time put them more to the bottom.  
  • Featured image: ugh, putting one random image on a pedestal, no thanks. Probably not that much above “Top scoring in last 24h” anyway. If you really want this, at least select a random image from a pool of featured images, which is just done at pageload (for the love everything don’t go to those fancy slideshow things, I hate those).  
  • Comments on the booru sometimes consist of just an image or a link. Assuming you don’t want images from comments in the sidebar, you would have to exclude those comments from it. (Which in turn makes you miss the party threads)
     
    Finally, an option for at least logged in users to use the sidebar or not. I use this place mostly for images, and have the homepage bookmarked so I can a) quickly get to images but also b) use it to go to a specific image (type d, press down, type id, press enter) all via a single bookmark. The few times I want to go to the forum, or the livestreams, or whatever, I just go via the menu bar anyway. (Sure, I can always just block the sidebar div)
     
    And while I’m on a big screen (though my browser is only 1000x1000 or something) small thumbnails = more info in less space = win.
     
    EDIT/CLARIFICATION: I am not against the idea of a sidebar, and I’m certain it will be useful for a significant portion of the site’s userbase, though given how I (and probably a lot of other users as well) mainly use the site, it wouldn’t really add that much, and just put less images on the homepage.
nyxabuse
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Finally, an option for at least logged in users to use the sidebar or not.
 
This sounds like a good idea; maybe something in settings to make derpiboo.ru redirect to derpiboo.ru/images
Background Pony #C1AF
@Petedash  
No, because half of it will end up being lesbian pics or big boob pics. I prefer it to just be a chosen featured image that’s safe.
DudeManGuy
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Waifu Hoarder
@Background Pony  
I think one of the admins already explained that they’d only be drawn from images that aren’t spoilered by default. Questionable and above content ratings are on the default spoiler list.
barbeque
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2018) - Celebrated Derpibooru's six year anniversary with friends.
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice
Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Thread Starter - Tag alias request thread
Artist -
Bronze Bit -

Someone just posted this >>365913 and I would like to point out that I don’t think we should go down the Google route. Google started putting things behind dropdowns and other fancy things a while ago, followed later by putting them on a separate page entirely. I’m not saying change is bad (if anything, I might end up using the new homepage layout after all if TSP’s last post in anything to go by), but unless they’re going to remove the “Derpibooru” at the top left as well (which I sincerely doubt) you won’t actually gain any space with it.
 
Bottomline: more buttons is more better if the space is going to be used anyway. Plus I like information overload.
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