Maybe something like each forum only can have a few of their posts per day appear on the front page? So even if someone creates 100 posts in A, forums B, C, D, E and F with about five posts per day would still be visible.

I'm mostly looking at https://ramble.pw/all/new so I don't care too much either way, other than being interested in optimizing the front page to attract more users.

And as a new user, it would probably be nice to easily see all the forums with some activity instead of just the most active ones. But even then, should there be a point where 5000 forums are active, you again will have a hard time figuring things out.

But for now that's my idea at balancing.

Maybe the front page should even show the few posts from each forum at random. So each time you reload the front page, you get something different, if there are enough posts in the pool. Prevents gaming the front page, too. At least to a degree.

sorry foe late reply, don't come here much because of the white issue - hurts eyes

site wide still getting areas of white behind panels of black, for instance rh side as you scroll down page turns white

One way is to get Ramble better represented on the alternative search engines. Yesterday I did an experiment on Google, Duckduckgo, and Startpage. Tried two searches:

ramble

ramble.pw

The second was a sort of 'control', since obviously if someone already knows the full name, he would not need a search engine. On search one, Google came up with every possible answer but the right one. One search two, Google provided the correct link. On search one and search two, Duckduckgo failed to provide the ramble.pw link. On search one, Startpage provided every link but the right one...some were ramble.com, ramble.org, ramblechat, and rambleofficial. On search two, Startpage did list the ramble.pw link.

All three failed the test. Unfortunately I have no idea how to solve this...I can only point out the problem.

I agree, a more polished look would definitely help. I can't browse reddit's new site, not sure how people navigate that mess. Old reddit is where it's at.

I need to put more into the dev site before pushing in major updates to this instance. There are a lot of little features that people want that would make the site better it's just a matter of figuring it out myself or trying to find trustworthy people who are more capable and able to assist.

A more "old reddit" look with RES features like post / image preview from the index of forums (though, JS required) would be a huge upgrade.

Guess it would depend on whether the active member is actually compatible with the forum, or just a hostile ubertroll or flamequeen looking to sabotage the forum from within. A forum on Free Speech would obviously not flourish under the iron fist of a leftist mod, nor would a pro-abortion forum survive under the fanatic domination of a drooling xtian.

I have sent a message to the politics subverse moderator 8 days ago to dispute his decision of banning nazi ideology and he didn't reply. He seems like an abusive moderator to me...

That's one person too many, but also if you look at the mod log another user was banned for racism, aka mod's personal preferences.

I'm the only one banned for political reasons.

If politics sub is his personal playground can you create official ramble political sub where everyone can express their opinions?

People who create their own forums can mod it as they see fit. The side bar includes a "Moderation Log" link that can be used to see moderator actions.

You made /f/Freespeechpolitics and can mod it how you see fit.

Looks to be pretty free speech so far. Mods wanting to create echo-chambers in their subs is their own choice. But I guess it's good to know that censoring already happens in this capacity. It's unfortunate that mods use these tools to remove something that isn't spam.

dude you have to understand that all forums are user created if you want to not censor things on your forum thats your choice as long as it doesnt violate tos. but if your upset with /f/politics mod maybe talk to Rambler see if he can do anything but running your own forum is the best thing to do.

Sure, but contributing won't preserve a culture. Eternal September and all that.

How would they preserve it by posting and upvoting stuff they are interested in, which doesn't have to be either technology or privacy.

If they assimilate and contribute to the culture then they are helping to preserve it.

It's straightforward to remove brigading trolls, but when they come in one at a time once every couple of weeks and assimilate properly instead of openly trolling to then steer the culture towards something different, what'cha gonna do?

By removing invasive evil newcomers who come here just to destroy the site.

How can you preserve a culture?

If the original creator isn't around for a long time (tbd) then it should be up to the members of the forum to vote and decide if they would want the member who is interested to be a new mod

Sounds fair !

I think maybe members of the forum should have a say. maybe saying the mod is unfit or doesn't moderate properly and voting who to reassign. so its more of a democracy.

I don't see anything wrong with assigning new moderator

I've made /f/piracy a default forum. I'll reach out to the person who made it to see if they're still around.

I need to come up with a fair policy for abandoned forums so that they can be reassigned to active people who want to moderate and manage them.

Any chance you could replace the literally who forum /f/datahoarder, that only has 2 entries and is used by nobody, by /f/piracy as recommended forum?