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Whenever I try to post my Preferences, I get an error and it doesn't get posted. I think it's because I set my first post to hide in the moderator settings, but it no longer shows up when I make a new post

You might have to ask one of the moderators for help then as I am not sure x.x

https://ibb.co/rGPwtLK1 it didn't really fix the issue

Just in case, here you go! https://ecchidreams.com/roleplayer-services/preferences/ Click on that link and it’ll send you to the Preference page! You have to use their Preference to post it as any outside would give you an error.

When you take <3 and turn it into , or take :) and turn it into ... do you realize what you've just done? There's a reason people prefer old-fashion emoticons over pictograms sometimes, you know... A) Some of the designs genuinely just don't convey the same emotion. Sometimes they interfere with actual text ("B)" doesn't actually become the sunglasses emoji on this forum, but it does on many others, and it can be a big obstruction of text flow). In order to manually correct things back to normal, you've gotta use a custom unicode character called a zero width space to keep them digitally separate without any visual difference to humans. Many older devices and some mobile phones/smart devices lack fonts supporting a wide range of the unicode consortium, meaning that they can render like an awkward little dotted block with some numbers and/or letters inside, or as a diamond with an inverted question mark inside ("�"), instead. (In the case of the zero width space specifically, it might appear as a block containing the characters "200B" inside, since that's the unicode identifier for the zero width space - somewhat like this: (or: (if you use light theme)).) Edit: It seems like my placement of zero-width spaces actually did nothing. It appeared to have done something, but upon returning to the page today, the symbols I cancelled out had been formatted as well. (It's also technically possible that Novear did something to disable the zero-width space in fixing the emoji issue.) I fixed the visual integrity of the post by reinstating the unformatted symbols.

Dang, nice. You work fast.

=) :) :D <3 =] I think that fixes it. We'll see how it goes. Most people who use EcchiDreams use their smartphones and most phones have emoji's built into their keyboards, with apps like GBoard and the like. Desktop users can still use ":" if you type ":" followed by a character it will bring up the quick Emoji box.

This is likely baked in IPS; I will see if it can be undone, or edited but I won't make any promises.

It's just annoying lil me. It's been a couple years and I was wondering if any progress has been made toward a place where I can move threads to the correct place in my group. My TTRPG club only has 2 sections- discussion and roleplay, and I'd like to be able to move threads started in the wrong section. No big deal, mostly just curiosity and my OCD kicking in.

Hello and thanks for having this forum to allow our, sometimes, good suggestions and questions. As you probably know, I run several clubs myself and most often they are quite comprehensive in scope and thus needs to be flexible to accomodate how I choose to set things up so my members are able to find what they need easy and quickly. However, even owners of the clubs are not able to move topics around, delete topics and do the more large scale functions. Thus we need to ask staff members to do these tasks for us. I would like to see club owners having more freedom in how they arrange and set up things.

@CaryJanJunior - Imagebox is free and works. It's what I use to keep images that aren't a specific character https://imgbox.com/ I hope that helps!

I am hoping to create a roleplay that involves a system which involves cards. Would having an album in the gallery that is dedicated to hosting these cards be allowed? Or would that break the rules? If it would, where else could they be stored on the site for easy access, if anywhere?

It would break the rules if it was done in the main gallery. If you created a club however, this would be 'Extra Information', information for that club. However if creating a club is off the table, then I'd suggest using a third party image hosting site.

Sometimes someone will leave a conversation and then want back in. It isn’t possible to invite them back in. Is there another way to do it??

Not that I know of... also do you want to brainstorm some rp ? Just asking...

I would love for Ecchi Texts to open to the most recent unread message or the last read one. Currently if you open a thread with 30 pages of responses it defaults to page 1. I get that it’s only one click to get to the last page, but I’d prefer to not have to do that forever if it’s possible to fix! Thanks!

Yes, this is exactly the issue Tem was encountering, and it's something I’m starting to understand better now. The inconsistencies. While the workaround you mentioned works for me too, it’s strange that it doesn’t function the same way from the EcchiTexts index page. As far as I can tell, there’s currently no way to resolve this issue. It would definitely be helpful if there was an option to make this behavior consistent across all views. I have an idea that might work within the current framework, but it wouldn’t be optional, and I’m not sure what the impact would be. Still, I’ll look into it and see what I can come up with. I think we could call it a "Consistency Fix".

If you open a message from the menu/notifications part it does skip to the earliest unread message, both on phone and desktop. (The little icon, on phone is in More •••, on desktop it's on the top of the page on the right side)

Okies thanks! I’m surprised they didn’t think of the feature given that the forum largely works that way. You’d think that even opening to page length-1 would be supported. I appreciates your letting them know for the next one though!

That would be something we can't do, as far as I am aware. Limitations in the underlying software framework. However I will note this down as a suggestion that can be optional under the software framework that's in development.

I’ve been on other sites. And recently I tried some discord RP servers! I’ve had abuse on basically all of them! I was always nice, but littles tend to be triggering for some people, and they get judgy and lash out. That’s never happened a single time here. So whatever you’re doing to make this place safe and fun and at least for me it’s been drama free except for the RP. So keep it up! I also RP exclusively in Ecchi Chats and didn’t notice you can’t delete a message because I’ve never needed to do it. You can always edit and clear a message if something gets out of order like in a 3-part convo. But I’ve never gotten lost in the convo. Perhaps the OP is RP’ing vastly different though and I just don’t gets it.

Look, I get it, you don't want people deleting stuff willy-nilly. If they could, I'm sure people would purge entire conversations. Might I suggest going the route that Messenger did, and only allowing people to delete a message within maybe a day or so after it was sent? I forever live through the pain of people sending a new message in a private roleplay instead of just editing the old one. It shuffles the entire dynamic and makes me confused on who actually started the conversation without manually jumping all the way back to page one. Pls fix, thx.

I was among individuals vocal in the past during my early days here about how soft it seemed staff was on certain users too, until I learned that people do literally everything except report issues, when I was under the impression that it was common sense to do that before literally anything (not all that common, it turns out). I was wondering if it had to do with making sure there was evidence for issues, too. I don't delete individual messages because I thought, as mentioned above, that there was likely ways to find those messages anyways, so I didn't even know it wasn't possible (I think..?). It makes enough sense to me personally tho, especially when I've unfortunately had to report before when I have the user multiple warnings to back off and that user had changed things up after previous issues to "hide", I'd hate for it to look like I was screaming into the void if the user tried to delete those messages after I told em they ran out of chances. Protection of users definitely wins over minor inconvenience.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this matter. I understand the frustration that comes with the inability to delete individual messages within EcchiText conversations, and I appreciate you bringing up this concern. To clarify, the ability to delete messages was intentionally disabled during the previous administration. I’ve had a meeting with them to discuss the reasoning behind this, as there were significant issues that arose from allowing message deletions. One individual, in particular, took it upon themselves to criticize the previous administration, claiming they were "soft on harassment." However, that assertion was not only inaccurate but also deeply misleading. In reality, whenever harassment cases were reported and there was clear evidence, the harasser was banned without appeal. This was a strong and decisive response, and no one was given a free pass when there was proof of misconduct. The issue arose when people deleted individual messages, or when harassment occurred off-platform, making it difficult to investigate fully. As per our Terms of Service, specifically Section 10 on Evidence Policy, we require that victims make repeated requests for the harasser to cease and desist, and we need evidence to build a case. While this may seem like a burden, it is in place to ensure fairness and to avoid wrongful accusations. As you may know, any evidence that’s not directly tied to EcchiDreams or our Discord server is not considered, and this is why we can’t act on external evidence. One of the safeguards put in place by the previous administration to strengthen Section 10 was to prevent the deletion of EcchiText messages. When a message is deleted, it’s gone permanently—there’s no backup or copy that we can retrieve. This became painfully clear in a recent case (As we're still putting up with it today, in other areas), where a report was made about an alleged incident, but by the time we were able to address it, the content had already been deleted. Without the evidence, we were unable to take action. While I understand your desire for more control over message management, I must be clear that I have no intention of re-enabling the message deletion feature. The ability to delete messages, unfortunately, creates more risks than benefits in ensuring that harassment is properly dealt with and that we have the necessary evidence to take action when needed. Thank you for your understanding.

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