#cherp confessions

[cherpbooboo]

ttmiyh really needs to hire outside help for carrion too. looking through the websites code there are dozens of hygiene issues on data storage and infinite unboundeed loops if elements dont load. a very maximal security policy that allows p much everything from privacy sensitive content to fingerprint enabling or security impacting elements all to enable ads. all similarly broken because ads allow redrects without any proper verify. easily compromised data that would fuck over users on a supposedly privacy focused website. also some common sense stuff. css renders elements presumed safe without proper sanitization. css does not mitigate svg xss so imgs can balloon to huge sizes. no custom landing page or exit page on decline for age verify just redirects to google. this will fuck performance over as clutter p much becomes unmanageable and expensive on nyetwork resources especially for shittier devices. deprecated tags and elements like the marquee tag. obsolete. will cause accessibility issues. lacks any plan for future support. undefined variables are referenced which just defaults to transparency or more unbounded values. cache lifetimes are totally inefficient. all in all. website programming is hard. dont leave it to the ai fangirl slicking it to llm slop imgs lol.

yikeees this all sounds really bad. I'm glad I've not made an account despite the temptation just to see what they all doing over there.

-mod aldo

[cherpbooboo]

i hate the new UI so much i have not replied to a single rp, picked up a single prompt, or used the website more than to change my icon in a chat, dick around with a few themes, and get frustrated. its so hard to look at and it kills my motivation. sorry to the 6-10 rps that cher(p)ami has sent to the grave. i know this is a "me" problem, but. holy shit. i have been using cherub/cherp/etc since 2012. this is so sad.

No you’re so real because I signed in today for the first time in two months.

New flash: it’s still kind of butt cheeks

[cherpbooboo]

Yeah I've tried rp on other sites and it's nothing to write home about. Like it or not this is where the quality is and at least the community knows how to behave themselves on-site. I don't like or care about homestuck and was only introduced to cherp/cherami by a friend late into its lifespan, and can honestly call the site a hidden gem just by the consistent quality of its users alone. You wouldn't believe the horror stories I've encountered elsewhere. The fact that users here can be counted on to properly structure a sentence makes it worth its weight in gold to me, not to even mention the fact that they don't try to turn ERP into ooc sexting.

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[cherpbooboo]

So if they're not bringing verification back are we all just sol and locked to the site with zero options other than Get Banned Loser

MWKWOENDJ GET BANNED LOSER

Maybe they’ll implement something….i hope

[cherpbooboo]

I am SO ANNOYED that there is still posts on the directory that have the Prompt tag when, in fact, THERE IS NO PROMPT. ITS JUST THE OOC. RAHHHHHHH

Yeah I'm not a big fan of the carrion "Chat" thing. like it's obvious they just used discord as a template. Get rid of it. Please. It's awful. Change it to something else. god. plus it just looks so CLUNKY. And you can't collapse any of the side bars or anything (like the little "export messages" thing in the corner)

I’m not touching that shit. It’s all garbage shit from a butt. Like we get it tt, you want the best toys by copying others. Can you form a single original thought ever????

[cherpbooboo]

'our tagging is so convoluted and unintuitive that we created a LLM discord bot for you to feed your prompts into and maybe it can help :))' my brother in christ AO3 is right there and it's SO EASY AND SIMPLE that it has become one of the largest websites on the whole entire internet because it's so easy to use. all you are trying to do on cherami is copy AO3's archival tagging system and failing (wretchedly). JUST USE THEIR OPEN SOURCE CODE AND FORMAT. put us out of our fucking misery. also its not like LLM wasn't already a plague in this community. 🙄 so glad you wasted your time and money on that instead of making the website better and more intuitive so you wouldn't need it.

reading people's reactions to this is so boggling because I don't know what LLM is/why its bad, and I'm just so surprised how they seemingly reverted backwards. they had a working tag system, that even the alpha version had it working nicely (from what I heard), and now that the real site is open, it's kinda a shit show. I wonder what the point of the test alpha site was.

-Mod Aldo

[cherpbooboo]

Of course, I get it. Previous iterations of Homestuck RP site were great, but we are also all collectively blinded by nostalgia glasses. Like cherubplay was the wild fucking west sometimes, anything could pop up. I swear I saw slave owner sassacre like six different times, there was a nazi Eridan. There was also fart fetish Dave but he was different.

The owner wasn't really into making a lot of rules for the content you could post there, and the fandom was large at that point. And Freaky.

No wait. Excuse me.

𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂

SASSACRE..,,,..,,,,,

I get what you’re saying I really do, but one of the best parts of cherp for me was the tagging system, now it’s all jumbled and ugh. I know they wouldn’t care if I left but it’s like the final nail in the coffin of me leaving homestuck.

[cherpbooboo]

i think people are being a little too demanding. its got new code thats still being tweaked. of course theres going to be weird bugs that require downtimes. also, while im not the worlds biggest fan of ai, i... dont think making a bot that that spits out tags for you is that bad. not something id use, but its not on the site itself and tt said it never will be. large language models do have their uses (though are MASSIVELY overhyped by corporations) and "analyze text to find matches" is a pretty good one. i still understand why its a dealbreaker, but. yeah.

I don’t want anything to analyze my text to find matches or do my tags for me OMG. Ai should not mix with rp websites because it will be stealing peoples writing. Idgaf if I look like I have a tinfoil hat on by saying this.

No more AI asks for a month omg everyone shut up about ai.