New Doujins 4.2 Updates

By Paul Fidika • 7 years ago

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Hey guys! Raikoh / Paul Fidika here to announce some exciting new changes and get your guys' feedback.

Doujins 4.2 Changes:

-Support for 4k Monitors / Super Retina Displays: Looking at doujins.com on my new iPhone X, I realized the image-thumbnails look like blurry compression-artifcated pieces of shit. That's because they're only 182 x 260 pixels, arranged in columns of 2, meaning that 182 x = 364 pixels are stretched out over Apple's glorious new 1,125 pixel-width display. Something had to be done! So we DOUBLED the resolution of all thumbnail images to 364 x 520 pixels, and it looks great--a night and day difference. Seriously, if you have a high-resolution phone display, or a 4K computer monitor, I want you to stick your nose into that screen: can you read the dialogue text right off the thumbnail image? Damn right you can. Now try doing that on your old 1080p display. Didn't work? I didn't think so. Doujins.com detects your display resolution automatically and serves you regular-size thumbnails (default) or 2x size thumbnails. Did you phone the Apple iPhone X's super-retina display has 458 pixels per inch, and the Google Pixel 2 XL has 538 pixels per inch? Whaaaaat

-New Rating System: Instead of rating galleries on a scale of 1 - 5 (antiquated!), you'll be rating galleries on whether you like them (thumb up!) or dislike them (thumb down). Galleries will be rated on their approval percentage (1% - 99%) rather than their average-rating (1 - 5 stars).

-Tags on top: by far our most commonly-received request was to move the tags to the top of the page, so users can more quickly tell what they're getting into before they discover (to their surprise and horror) that they've been reading a trap-yaoi or futanari or netorare story the whole time.

-Relocated Controls: we moved the slideshow / favorite / download / similar gallery buttons to fit into the grid-layout.

-Poll History: the Poll History page is finally back

-Downloads: you now must be logged into an account (they're free!) to download zip-files for galleries. An idea I've been tossing around: requiring users to register or log in to a free account in order to use the site. Too few of our visitors register or use accounts, and you need an account to use all the awesome features Doujins.com has to offer (favorites, bookmarks, comments, etc.), so why not require it? What do you guys think?

Doujins 4.3 Changes (Proposed):

-Personalization: maybe we could make gallery-recommendations for you based upon your thumb-up and thumb-down history. I also want to think of a useful 'trending galleries' page. Any ideas? The remaining items are carry-overs that are still on the to-do list:

-White-List and Black-List: make a list of 5 tags you like, and 5 tags you dislike. Galleries with tags you like will be highlighted, and galleries with tags you dislike will be greyed-out, communicating to you what you want to see, and what you want to avoid.

-Dark-Mode: be able to switch the site from its current friendly light-theme to a more adult dark-theme instead.

-Blog Redesign: redesign the blog to make it look more like a professional news site.

And here's what I want to ask you guys:

-Do you have any ideas for future daily polls you want us to run? They can be serious, academic, silly, or fun.

-What do you want to see changed on this site?

-What's currently broken / not working right for you on this site? What could work better?

K3BMlooK 7 years ago

You shouldn't force people to make accounts. Most people don't want to keep a track record of what they look

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lonehero33 7 years ago

I would say make the white/black lists the number 1 priority. Since the idea of tags being on the news (now front page I guess) has been vetoed, this will bring me and I'm sure many others back to the site. The entire reason I liked this site was the frequent updates and quickly being able to check out what looked interesting based on the tags. These lists would make this possible again.

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anonthemaus 7 years ago

It reminds me of the reason I left that Other Big Hentai website, aka, why I'm here in the first place.

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Sapso 7 years ago

Also, I know that we as users can seem demanding and harsh, especially when sudden changes are made, but that's because we love this site and want it to be the best that it can be. Thank you for all of the work you guys are putting into reworking this site and communicating with your user base. It's really nice to know that we have a voice in this process.

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DEEZ NUTS 7 years ago

can you allow the up down left right controls of the page be also the wsad keys? some manga websites do that so you can use your left hand to scroll and change the pages and it would greatly benefit the majority of the people that are right handed if ya know what i mean. if you guys implement this change i promise to get a premium membership.

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Kyler 7 years ago

I love the white list and black list idea. I tend to scan for tags I like anyway, and was disappointed when they stopped being listed on the updates page, so that would help a lot.

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Lilinka 7 years ago

The idea of gallery recommendation sounds pretty good. Have two points to that tho.
1/ Can it be based on what you find in my "favorite gallery" instead of thumb up/down as I never bothered to vote, just marked them as favorite.
2/ Can it be used mainly to discover older galleries. There´s some hundreds awesome galleries added years ago which you just never get from news feed.

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