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in thread "The third-worldification of the global internet: are private network enclaves the answer?":

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The Sofiechan Index Page Question
We just had an opinionated sofiechanner over at sofie hq to discuss what can be done to improve the design of the site. We're all pretty satisfied with the thread design, being a fairly utilitarian and constrained problem where we can lean a bit on *chan t...
posted 2w ago with 6 replies received

The Sofiechan Index received

Democracy After the Bitter Lesson: Advisory Voting
Democracy has problems: the masses are low-information, voting systems get captured by parties and perverse incentives, voting becomes crudely ethnic or handout oriented, and giving everyone a slice of power just opens things up to manipulation and sybil a...
posted 3w ago with 10 replies received

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Did I mention we have a newsletter?
Sofiechan has a newsletter. Some of you know this, but perhaps not all. Log in and head over to the "you" page to affirmatively sign up. It's been working well for the last few weeks, so I think we will also turn it on by default for anyone who has posted....
posted 3w ago with 2 replies received

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in thread "Beauty Tycoons (Avetis Muradyan)":

Email deliverability improvements and crushing the bots. Should sofiechan have an IQ captcha?
As many of you know, it has been annoying to log in to sofiechan as the code may not arrive or may end up in spam folder. Yesterday we finally looked at the logs and realized hundreds of login emails were being sent and only about 3% resulted in successful...
(iqcaptcha.us.to) posted 3w ago with 2 replies received

Email deliverability received

Welcome to Sofie Channel. Curated anonymous discussion about life and philosophy.
I've been working on a little something in the background for the past year, and more earnestly for the past few months. It's a new social media platform designed to curate a high quality discourse community about whatever topics are important to us....
posted 1y ago with 30 replies received

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Good post anon. Updooted 1y ago received

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All in good time gentlemen.... 1y ago received

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you can always bully them anonymously, and are never stuck with nameposting... 1y ago received

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welcome. don't let the flame go out. 1y ago received

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The sofiechan tag system: Name your tags or the AI will do it for you
We've been slaving away for you in the code mines over the past few weeks trying to polish up the sofiechan tag system and UI, and we have some new gems. I'll focus on the tag system stuff today:...
posted 4w ago with 2 replies received

The sofiechan tag sy received

Ideas for tag renaming and ghost tag lifecycle
Hey anons. We've got the tag word frequency stuff running smooth now in the lab, but we need to add tag renaming to really make it useful. Let's talk about how to do that....
posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received

Ideas for tag renami received

Designing a word frequency auto-tagger for sofiechan
Let's talk about the upcoming auto-tagger architecture. All it has to do is produce affinity scores between threads and tags, and our now existent smart tag selector will select a high-affinity set of tags that also make a good index. To do this, it's goin...
posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received

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Do you wish to subscribe to our newsletter? (experimental)
Hey anons, this week we have a big delivery: the sofiechan newsletter. It seems to work. We're shipping it. Head to the "you" page and click the endorse icon on the newsletter question to subscribe, and you should receive something in the hour after Monday...
posted 2mo ago with 6 replies received

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in thread "Alt-social failures, coolness, and Good work":

Ergonomic features for anons and namefags: pronouncable nyms and profile pages
This week in the sofie mines, we've got pronounceable non-sequential anon ids (anon_haho, anon_ryfi, anon_lifo, etc), and custom nym bios and even profile pictures for nyms with proper usernames. Check it out....
posted 2mo ago with 3 replies received

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Notifications have arrived, along with some smaller fixes and polish
Well it's that time again: 4:00 on a Friday afternoon. Time for the big push of barely-tested code to production! The sofiechan team has been slaving away in the code mines for you again this week, and we have some new updates:...
posted 3mo ago with 2 replies received

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"Forum software blew a 4000x lead with poor UX" - Simon Sarris
I really liked forums. I liked imageboards. I dislike many of the patterns on twitter and group chats etc. But it's undeniable that those apps offer a richer more engaging user experience somehow. It's just more immediate with something you want to respond...
(x.com) posted 3mo ago with 7 replies received

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Improved compose UI features
The new post compose ui (for new threads and for replies to posts) has some improvements today:...
posted 4mo ago with 9 replies received

Improved compose UI received

Matching for anonymous private messages now works
We've been talking about this one for far too long, but now finally it's here: you can dm with other anons. Right now the only way to dm is to get matched by liking/following each other's nyms. This is neat but not as useful as it could be. We're also goin...
posted 4mo ago with 6 replies received

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How to build better anonymous social media: curation and tags
Back in 2014, moot banned gamergate discussion from 4chan. This led to an exodus of the most adventurous and curious channers to 8chan, which had a strict free speech policy. For a few months at least, 8chan was a haven of smart free discussion on all sort...
posted 4mo ago with 13 replies received

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more useful nyms dashboard in "you" page
One of you asked for more clarity on how nyms work, and when I explained it, we realized it was all quite un-inituitive and the UI didn't lead naturally to figuring it out. Now if you go to the "you" page to check it out, it will tell you about your nyms a...
posted 4mo ago with 7 replies received

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that there is a BUG. On it. 4mo ago received

that there is a BUG. received

Fixed the zero bug. De-naming yourself should work properly now. 4mo ago received

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The plan for anonymous mutual matching dms
Let's talk about how anonymous dms with mutuals will work. Thanks everyone for the feedback on the proposed follow functionality in >>2622. Having now thought about it and pushed up the prerequisites, it's time to plan out the details....
posted 5mo ago with 11 replies received

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Help me figure out sofiechan poster vouching
Sofiechan's backend technically has the capability to consider not just a poster's posts and votes, but other user's direct assesments of that poster. That is, if you were to vouch for someone, the algorithm would take that as evidence that they are solid,...
posted 6mo ago with 7 replies received

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Sofie dev log thread 2025-03
New dev log thread because the previous one fell off the front page due to age. If still want to read it, it's still live in the meta tag. As usual, I'll post minor and major sofie channel changes here for discussion.
posted 5mo ago with 2 replies received

Sofie dev log thread received

Sofie dev log thread
I'll journal ITT with what I've been tinkering on and pushing up. It may be useful for those who are interested.
posted 7mo ago with 10 replies received

Sofie dev log thread received

Fixed a major multi-hour outage caused by a logfile permissions mishap. Whoops.... 7mo ago received

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Introducing Sofiechan Prototype Tag System
Over the past few weeks I've managed to find a few days in which to build a prototype tag system for sofiechan. In comparison to other forums, this will be our equivalent of "boards" "subreddits", etc....
posted 7mo ago with 11 replies received

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