I had a few ideas! (Hopefully any of these aren’t on the first post; I read through it a few times. My memory isn’t too great lol. If not, I gladly accept my 12hr ban.) As a person who writes HTML/codes for themself (although I may be a newbie/my HTML may be crappy) I just thought these’d be cool features that I’d add if I had my own imageboard! Some of these may not be to your liking, but to each their own, I guess. (I realize some of these ideas could be unusable/unaddable due to caching/the site itself/etc. but it’s worth a try! I’m not sure how this site functions; that’s just a guess. I might not even know what I’m talking about!)
- Maybe upvotes/downvotes on comments/forum posts? Possibly with that feature you could add notifs for who upvotes/downvotes. Also, if getting notifs for upvotes/downvotes on comments gets annoying, you could add a section where it could be turned on or off. I only thought of this because it gets tedious replying to someone who quotes you/replies to you/agrees with you (basically just a small sentence like “Your art is great!” or “Also lmao your avatar very much fits [this post]”. I just feel the need to close a conversation. Might just be me, but I like finishing what I start when it comes to conversations =P) You could make the amount of upvotes/downvotes able to see publicly, and even who upvoted/downvoted (Maybe make the second part be able to turn on/off?) I just think it would be nice to let someone see that you saw their message/reply/comment without actually having to reply and take up space. This idea has nothing to do with private faves.
- Tabs on the About Me/Art description section? Maybe so you could have spaces for certain things you want to share about yourself or artwork. It would save space on a profile and/or art upload page and not make it so long. Kind of like the Write and Preview tabs you are able to use before you comment or send a DM. The only place I saw this feature was on the Transformice (Atelier801) forums when I was a regular there, and I used it a lot. It made things really neat and tidy and generally worked well. I think that would be a good feature, considering how long and cluttered my About Me section is =P
- Avatar database perhaps? You could look through your old avatars and choose one if you wanted to reuse it without having to dig through old files, resize the photo, etc. I thought this would be a helpful feature since I’m indecisive on my avatars and change them quite a lot.
- Small, custom emoji-type things for commenting/DMS? Kind of like the ones on DeviantART that they have for commenting. I guess reaction images could count, but a lot of reaction images are really big and I don’t believe there’s a feature for scaling them down when you comment, so they just appear at the size they were submitted. It would be cute and fun for those who like adding flare to their comments. This feature could also be used for spamming, so I guess that’s a bad part to it.
- Being able to delete your own comments. I think everyone’s had this thought at one point! Personally, I think it would just work better to delete my own comments like, if they had something embarrassing/a typo/something completely unrelated that got messed up in my brain and posted in the wrong forum/etc. Editing is cool, but I don’t really want people looking through my edits on my comment(s) because I could have said something stupid or unrelated that I don’t want people seeing. I think it’d just be easier to delete and redo a comment.
That’s everything I’ve conjured up so far! I might add more of my ideas to a later post or just edit this one. If any mods/site developers/etc. see this, let me know what you think :) (Please excuse any typos on this post, my eyes are sore from the colors/close letters a bit. Sorry lol :D)