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After asking a friend of mine who works for Amazon about website design, I found out that IPB's themes (specifically Gravity Green 2013) is coded via CSS and HTML. I have contacted binaryfail asking if he would be interested in upgrading the theme so it's compatible with IPB 4.0. If he is uninterested, my friend's brother is willing to help out since this is the sort of thing he does for his job. In order to make Gravity Green 2013 compatible for IPB 4.0, I would need the original theme in order to compare its code with a 4.0 theme's code. I have messaged Tay on Skype about this. As for changing the actual code itself, this can be done in any web browser via inspect element. By simply adding the necessary changes in a text editor (Notepad++), the theme can be made compatible for Fuwanovel. This is not a time consuming project. As for the legal issues behind this, the following question is answered on the site for purchasing themes itself: Can I modify the theme as much as I like after purchasing? Yes. Once you purchase a theme, you can modify it as much as you like - however you must keep the copyright intact (unless you purchase copyright removal), and you are not allowed to redistribute the theme even if it has been heavily modified.

Please be aware of the following four things: Breaking this script is literally one of my chief goals with every change I make to the siteIt's full of spyware which will send @@Flutterz the number of icons on your desktopIf ^ said number is > 1, Flutterz sells the information to a certain @Lewycool, a known crime syndicate leaderSaid Lewycool will come to your home, break your kneecaps, and delete everything off your desktop.You have been warned. Friends don't let friends use this script. User was banned for this post.

NEW FEATURES WORTH MENTIONING You can tag other forums users in your posts. Just write “@” and then their username, and wait a bit – a menu will pop up allowing you to choose the user.Our WYSIWYG editor is more stable and MUCH more moddableProfiles are now much more dynamic and have a neat new follower systemBlogs now have a lot of new design options and content blocks. Importing feeds SHOULD work better than before, too.We can now create Q & A forums if there’s a reason for oneLots of back-end improvements that lets us easily change a ton of things around the forumsPeople have now discovered the “Mark Site as Read” button(Mods, admins, literally anyone who has editing powers here – feel free to add other good stuff here)The forums sidbar updates every 60 seconds, so freshly new topics may not show up immediately. Just give them a minute, and they'll appear. BUGS/PROBLEMS (Green text indicates an issue is resolved or fixed) THEMES 1. New Forums Theme Called “Temporal” Any interest in making a different logo/hosting a logo competition for it?Background Images: If you click on the paintbrush (the design menu) you can choose between a few background images. If you want different ones, get the rights to (or written permissions for) a nice image and then contact me : P2. FuwaFabulous If there are colors you want me to add back into the color picker, go get the hex colors from the Wayback Machine and send them to me. These sorts of changes are obnoxious, so we need to share the pain.3. All Themes Index page sidebars are not properly ordering new posts - FIXEDAvatar sizes are weird and strict. Tay or Nay needs to figure out where in the ACP you can relax the rules (both on dimensions and size, probably)For some reason there isn’t a space between “Location” and the user’s designated “location” on the user profiles (and user info boxes next to posts)Find out if it’s possible to hide chat bubbleIt’s EASY to narrow the functional part of the forums (see how there are sections of background to the right and left of the forums content?). Right now we’re using 90% of the screen space for the content. If you want me to lower that, I will drop it to 85%. Before I do so, however, someone should personally (or convince Eclipsed to : P) agree to make a poll for feedback on this changeCan’t hide sidebar: sorry, Lewy : (. Anybody had any luck hiding it? (Note: if you have designer access (like ACP access people or GMs), DO NOT DELETE THE CONTENT BLOCKS)My Content” button is gone. Need to figure out what replaced it.4. “Gravity Green 2013” Theme is no longer supported by its dev and was not upgraded to support IPB 4. That’s why it’s missing. The dev has no plans on upgrading it. FORUMS APP Fix avatars limitsLikes are currently anonymous. This is not acceptable. FIXEDNotifications are not working like they used to. Need to figure out the best way to establish user settings to make them more useableThe old friends system is goneNote to self: Let user groups get the “ghost edit” permission set FIXEDNotifications options are restricted to everybody. What’s up with that?Recent visitors on profile pages are limited to one, meaning it will always show you and no one else, making it an effectively useless feature. FIXEDMake Profiles default to the “About Me” pageProfile pages aren’t prominently displaying user’s last status messageNo full editor feature when editing a post (?)Profile pages – customization options?Is there no longer an option to preview posts before posting?Does the user receive a notification when they are tagged with @?Is the "go to first unread post" option gone on the thread page?Auto line skip when pressing enter is a little annoying.You can't see all of the emoticons unless you type a single character into the search fieldNew messaging system lists participants triggers Nosebleed’s OCD and is literally Hitler.When you go to "edit my profile" the box to edit your interests is incredibly small. You can only see two(?) lines of text at a time and IIRC it was larger before.Reporting a member (not a post, the actual member) seems to be goneRaw BBCode editing is absentSpoiler tag in chat is absentA link to the front page is absent (< this was on purpose, Maef. I have to fix two menu items before I can turn it back on. The Home button is made and everything, just need to get things ready for it, first)Spoiler BBCode as it exists now doesn’t work as well as the last one. Ex: You need to delete an entire spoiler if you want to delete it because to the BBCode problem. Since you can't edit raw code, you have to copy content, delete all spoiler and then paste.Impossibility to reset font size automatically (size 14 btw, old one was 12 IIRC)Be able to change your star ratings on blogs, etc.Image compression screwed up some images in blogsCan’t add headers to articlesBlog header images messed up due to difference in formattingNeed report option in chatNeed some rich text editing features in the chatNow, when I click on sidebar topics [even the ones I've never read before], it takes me to the latest post of it, instead of the last seen [or first], which is pretty annoyingZaka says: if you edit an off-site blog post that's RSS linked the new one gets pulled and you have a lovely double post to deal with. I'm not sure if this is preventable, intended, or needed in general. Zaka doesn’t make any sense. What Zaka means is that imported feeds are at risk of doubling up. Tay understands Zaka. Tay will look into this.Incorrect posting permissions for some forums - FIXED (Link)The post preview when hovering over topics is neat, but it seems kind of buggy. Specifically, when clicking between "First post" and "Latest post" it sometimes closes itself. Inconsistent Line SpacingPossible: text under the quote in some posts disappear?Donations Link Not Working (On purpose)Rooke's Theme Broken - Yaaay! Working on itLikes back to anonymous FIXED (hopefullyFuwa Recognition Blog RSS broken on other sitesFlash of red before colors reload on FuwaFabulousUsers can Post threads in TL Projects Forum FIXEDThere's no longer a "Back to top" button underneath every postThe chat option in the Ignore user settings is removedChat has no longer a pop-up option Chat is smaller compared to before, also the avatars no longer shows up in the chat messages.Profile cover photo is now extremely small, compared to before, really annoying. Although, the upload for the cover photo is improved.The message feed in the small box is gone, which is annoying. Please put that back.Ghost Editing showing up for staffClear Formatting Button FIXED

That's the wrong one, you mongrel.

Be sure to chairish this gift.

Dear Fuwa, Due to the recent update there are certain bugs, strange new systems and features and missing content, most offensive of them all is the missing avatars from the chat. Now i'd like to take this moment in time out of my rioting, specifically looting Tay's underwear drawer and setting Zebhra on fire to tell you that we have been given a crucial responsibility; We must band together and blame Maefdomn for all our troubles and ensure that all blame falls on him for no reason. Please remember this in your daily Otaku commute and stay angry my friends. Love Totodile. P.S; Maef is also the one responsible for slow TL times

You pretty much answered the question yourself, the genre is just too niche and probably didn't interest most of SP's primary audience and even the Western audience in general. Although I do think there's an audience for BL games over here, but SP probably doesn't have a huge hold on said audience. I wouldn't extrapolate this as "SP is going downhill from now on" at all, it's just that this title in particular had few chances to succeed. I highly doubt it will have any real impact in how SP operates in the near future as well. The reason they use Kickstarter in the first place is because of the safety net it provides. To them this is just one less product they'll bring over, that's basically their modus operandi in a nutshell.

You called? I must admit I cannot be arsed to follow my... counterpart's whims when it comes to picture choices any more, but I'm still here. Watching. Waiting. Always.

Confession: Having all my previous posts now available on my user profile makes me feel a bit paranoid, but ah well~ Confession2: I recently got into playing League of Legends, and it's pretty fun. I'm not very good and quick with the controls yet. The vast variety of heroes makes it seem really interesting, like I want to try them all. The female characters all look really cool too~. Confession3: I'll get to nerd out with a special someone in real life soon~ yaaaay. I'm actually pretty excited and looking forward to the possibilities.

Are you one of the poor souls who relied on the "My Content" button in IPB 3? If so... despair not! I think we've got some new (possibly better?) replacements: (BEST) Use the "New Content" button (link). You can use the filters on the left to sort content types (forums, blogs, statuses, etc.), how content relates to you (stuff you've posted in, started, etc.), and by time period (since last log-in, yesterday, the last week, month, etc.) (Alternate) For monitoring content you made, you can keep an eye on it by going to your profile > clicking "See My Activity", and then using the sort options on the left-hand side (ex: link to my profile with sorting options)

Noooooooooo! Fuwanovel just isn't the same without the ability to properly stalk someone when I wake up in the middle of the night!

I don't know how to mouse over on mobile

Really liking the new FuwaWhiteTM Theme. Those new forum updates are really working wonders. taypls

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In the meantime, you can press shift+enter to do a single line break. So you can make posts like this.

Aren't the admins nice? They went as far as to update the entire IPB just for you. The issue is now solved!

What do we think of it now? 8 + 6. Other Issues I Think I've fixed (need your help confirming!): Likes are currently anonymous. This is not acceptable. This should be fixedCan anyone confirm?Note to self: Let user groups get the “ghost edit” permission set Everyone should now be able to edit posts with or without adding an edit messageCan anyone confirm?Recent visitors on profile pages are limited to one, meaning it will always show you and no one else, making it an effectively useless feature. Should be between 1 - 5 depending on screen size. It's currently 3 for me.Can anyone confirm?A link to the front page is absent (Maef) FYI: this was on purpose, Maef. I have to fix two menu items before I can turn it back on. The Home button is made and everything, just need to get things ready for it, first.

I only hate that they started this "experiment" on such good and well-know title. On the other hand we already have a best version, translated years ago and I have my physical copy no one will take from me. Just I already see how new readers would get much worse experience than I had, having scenes removed/images cropped and now even without voices... Looks like they intentionally want to ruin the experience user will get in order to sell that big... Already see post with complains "and this is in top ten of VNDB?? really???"... If dovac want money - why ruin good games? Create your own Sakura Clicker for 10$ and get your billions... I already thought, that this release would be a bad thing, but I never thought it would become even worse than I thought it would be...

nothing about the title really interested me, I'll say that's probably true for most of the others who didn't support this.

BL just doesn't interest me. It may have good characters and story but it wasn't my cup of tea. I don't know how the game is, but if some BL lovers really wanted it I feel for you for not getting this.

I simply think it'll mean that they won't go for BL titles any more, or at least without a serious revision of their marketing or something. The western VN community do like their titties.

I would really suggest taking a look at this thread. Most things are already being looked into, including this one.

I'm with Diddles actually, GG is so 2015, we need to look forward to 2016, and Fabulous is the way to go And I'll place two cards face down to protect me and then end my turn.

I actually have a shitload that I think are amazing, but JOINT is by far my go to. *stares at the over 1000 OP/ED/INS songsin my music collection* Have a Wonder Stella.

Now that we've made this monumental transition and notifications have been fixed, I figure it's the perfect time to raise awareness for a script that makes browsing Fuwa about 126% better. This makes it so that the amount of notifications you have shows up in the title of the page, so you can know how many you have without having to switch out of whatever other tab you're using! It's really neat if you're like me and you have the forums set to follow every topic you post in. http://pastebin.com/BR2eRGuK Installing it is pretty easy, first you install a userscript extension in your browser. If you're using Chrome you want Tampermonkey, if you're using Firefox you need Greasemonkey (I think, I don't use FF). Then you just create a new userscript and change it to the script from the pastebin above and save!

Can testify to this, my first original title was Conductor Of The Poop Train as bestowed upon me by @Nosebleed also I can confirm that enter key's auto line skip is maddening, any way to fix that? Moreover, I haven't seen ANY notifications on mobile. That might just be me though. Really like tagging, hopefully we'll have the custom titles back though (I love changing that). edit: Don't like the set square avatar size. Member title above picture feels odd too, but that I can probably get used to. If you can change the set title names, wouldn't it make more sense to make them singular? "Administrator", "Member", "Global Moderator", etc. Overall, despite these nitpicks this update is great! new edit (now with extra nitpick): I liked the "<User> liked a post you made in <thread>" notification more than the current "<User liked a post in <thread>". Nitpick. Thanks to the new enter auto line skip, my posts look too long now something I noticed when writing this edit: 1) Emoticon settings show "core_emoticon_group_default" during selection, which obviously isn't an important issue at all, only important if you want to make the site look very polished (incredibly low priority IMO). 2) "Location<location>" right below the avatar doesn't seem to have any space between "Location" and the data user enters. 3) It's harder to get to Notifications on mobile right now, which is a pity because it looks great. edit 3: Any way to uncheck the "show that the message has been edited" by default? edit 4: Rooke's theme looks like a long neglected governmental healthcare website. edit 5: Getting the flashes of red in Fuwabulous too. the red box with the number of active members on the "Chat" icon on the header's slightly out of the "Chat" icon which is p. annoying.

Ah. So you used that instead of following threads -- is that correct? Yeah Following every thread would make stuff messy and plus I generally follow announcement/TL projects threads to get mails. Read my above post, and then here's the exact link I was thinking of. It's the "New Content" page filtered to "New Content" and threads you've posted in: http://forums.fuwanovel.net/new-content/?updateFilters=1&onlyParticipated=1 EDIT: You can also filter by "Since your last visit", in the last week, month, year, etc. Oh didn't notice those filters in New Content. Well this should the trick. Thanks a lot. Tay to the resue ftw Consolidated what we've discussed into a topic for the (doubtless) many, many souls who aren't going to slog through this thread: http://forums.fuwanovel.net/topic/11872-replacements-for-my-content-button/

Ah. So you used that instead of following threads -- is that correct? Yeah Following every thread would make stuff messy and plus I generally follow announcement/TL projects threads to get mails.

Ah. So you used that instead of following threads -- is that correct?

I think the Red has to do with some interference with my global message. It may also be a simple reflection of the fire within our hearts.

Red thingy still a thing~ At this point though i'm beginning to think there's something wrong on my part, and it's not that important anyway~ Occasionally mine goes red, too. Mostly while loading or after taking an action, like posting. I can verify this as well. http://puu.sh/kFf0T/d7f1f6247a.jpg Additionally, only some things are turning to Strawberry, while the rest remains consistent. For reference, my current setup is Slate and Emerald. (Slate as a replacement for Sky) Could it be this is Fuwanovel subtle way of saying it wants a Red Theme?

Actually, double checking things, I can edit some members (tested with Tiago, OriginalRen and even Tay) but can't edit others (checked with Repanda and XionsProphecy). Might be because they don't have the member title option available under a certain post count which in turn also makes it unavailable for staff to edit now whereas before staff could add member titles to members even if they didn't reach a certain post count.

Oh and since you asked in the OP, yes you do get a notification if you're tagged in a post and have that notification option enabled in your settings: However, regular notifications for when someone comments on a thread you're following are still not working.

I don't know if it's just me, but even after I un-check "Show that the message has been edited" when I edit my posts, it still shows "edited ..." on the posts. It also always ticks that box by default which is pretty annoying. Edit: I guess it's because I'm staff, that's pretty annoying. But I would like the box not to tick by default on my own post (it doesn't when I edit other people's posts). Another major thing I'd like to see back is the "clear formatting" option in the text editor. I used it all the time in the previous version to clear text formatting when I copy and pasted stuff. And yes I know I can use ctrl + shift + v but sometimes I just wanted to clear the formatting in specific places after I copied a big chunk of text and not having this option makes that task fairly annoying.

Voice acting in Japan is really expensive and the costs of licensing voices are usually separate from the actual game itself because of royalties and other stuff. $20 for full voice acting really isn't an absurd price tag for a game as long, and imo as well voice acted, as G-senjou is. Voice acting is an incredibly valuable asset in a medium like visual novels, there are people who buy games for the voice actors even. The original Japanese version of G-senjou no Maou retails for $60, so you're actually getting a discount either way. (although h-scenes being removed could be the reason here) In fact, most VNs that end up licensed are cheaper than their original Japanese counterparts, people just aren't aware of how pricey PC games are in Japan. As for why the voice acting can't be sold as a separate dlc, it's really anyone's guess, but I'm sure this was a restriction imposed on them by the original publisher, not something Sekai Project decided on their own.

It doesn't have to be horror, I decided to keep them separate. Okay then, I recommend Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki or simply, Wolf Children. Another wonderful work of Mamoru Hosoda.

Let's complain about the fact that they'll be selling voices for 20$, shall we? Let us also disregard the fact the the price of the Visual Novel with voices is fairly reasonable for Visual Novel standards, while the no voice version is actually fairly cheap. The price for full length voiced Visual Novels usually are in the 35-60$ range, so I see absolutely no reason to complain about this. They aren't removing content and selling the removed content at absurd levels. They're removing the content and making a cheaper version instead.

No 'My Content' page, IPB4 = fail. But really not having that page makes things reaaaaally inconvenient. That was the page that I had bookmarked and visited the most, so it really doesn't sit well when it's shown as "The page does not exist". And all the tweaks that made FuwaFabulous so fabulous have disappeared. Switched to Temporal temporarily.

This is not the right forum for this. But anyways, yes, it's safe. And yes, you can actually delete it if you really want to. Nope, it isn't. That would be advHD.exe.

Is it just me, or did the text under the quote in some posts disappear?

(making this a new post so tay sees it) The post preview when hovering over topics is neat, but it seems kind of buggy. Specifically, when clicking between "First post" and "Latest post" it sometimes closes itself.

Can confirm all things. Actually recent profile visitors is going up to 7 for me.

All right there goes my last reason to ever come to Fuwa ever again. See ya RIP Gravity Green

I realize that my last post is a bit silly sounding, normally you would assume nothing is happening in the absence of any proof of it happening, rather than the opposite. And I don't begrudge anyone for thinking that way. The one thing we have to go off of is the remark they made during AX or Otakon this year (I forget which) which heavily implied that they want to continue releasing 18+ versions of the games that have them via Denpasoft. For some reason they can't say this outright. But I'm naive and hopelessly optimistic at the strangest things and this is one of those things, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and will be running under the assumption that we'll get an 18+ release of g-senjou. And of Tenshin Ranman, Wagahigh, Chrono Clock, and everything else. Because ultimately the return is very likely to outweigh the cost of doing so, so why not? They've also been talking about expanding staff in order to promote and support the Denpasoft side of their business better, something they wouldn't do if they were going to give up on it. If you want to be pessimistic about it, that's okay too. I think I'll stop harping on people for being so until they establish a better track record. We'll see starting with this release, I suppose. edit: Also I support the all-ages conversion of any and all VNs for Steam release. Hell, I'd even support that phony all-ages version of Euphoria if it was real. Expanding the market is a positive thing. And it's not like it diminishes the 18+ side at all, either, considering the record sales MangaGamer has been seeing on their own site after going big on Steam.

What's the last title with an 18+ release in Japan that Sekai Project released a non-adult version of, but never did the 18+ version? I'm with Decay here. Sekai Project has decided that the fact that it does 18+ releases needs to be some big secret. They've come through thus far (though perhaps belatedly). I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they show that they don't deserve it.

Rondine pm'd me about the deck I used in Anki and I actually couldn't find it again the shared decks on ankiweb. So I uploaded my version of it, where I purged about ~1000 words which I found arguably useless. I don't pretend they were actually useless but I can't get them back anyway https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/740967428 And remember to read stuff along with Anki, it's the most important!

I am drawing an OC loli waifu. I'm only done the rough but I thought she turned out pretty kawaii so I thought I'd post. May it satiate your lustlful desires.

A really good question! A little off-topic (but not really,) is anyone else bored with the common words seen everyday, everywhere? The magic has gone out of expression . "Edited by Zakamutt, Today, 11:13AM" is just so boring a phrase, I'd much rather see something like "Zakamutt fiddled with his post inappropriately, Today, 11:13AM". ... Or maybe that's just me?