Constructive suggestion:
On the home page, create a toggle bar under the search bar that toggles all the forum features / top rated images / etc. on and off.
Since the forum / top rated / etc. still displays recent images anyhow, and these are floated divs (I assume), you can make all the extra content visible / invisible with simple css.
This leads to possibe solution of another issue I have with derpibooru although it might be congenital to a booru’s.
Because the turnover rate is so high, most people don’t get to see a lot of stuff unless they are specifically looking for it, which means that discussion generating images (trollbait or otherwise) and images by well known artists (karmafriend or otherwise) get all the attention.
Since images appear on the new homepage by default anyhow, in addition to toggling on/off visibility of the forum / top rated panel,
you can also have a button allowing users to toggle what order images appear on the home page.
E.g. they could select “random images from today”, “trending / popular”, or chronological.
The “Images” version (home)page would remain chronological by default, since that is how the booru operates.
As mentioned above, it would be really easy to make 100% of the homepage / forum / site extras collapsible with simple css.
Streams, new forum posts*
About that featured image , can you hide it?tags doesn’t work on them , and…well , it kinda ignores the meaning of having tags. (being able to hide a picture)And I guess we lost the top 5s forever. Really sad.
@dt
I think the homepage is bad and worst of all, useless.
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