Where would YOU like to see SDK go next? By jsa005

By @jsa005
POSTED: 20 Jul 2016 13:45
CATEGORY: This Community
FEATURED: Yes (@jsa005)
(Go to comments)

Hi, SDK.

As we've all admitted to ourselves, this community is growing old and slowly fading away.

The only way we can possibly stop this is to evolve the site and adapt it to today's lifestyles.

Back in DSiPaint's heyday, kids didn't have iPhones and tablets; heck, the iPad didn't exist when DSiPaint launched and the original DS Opera SDK came a year before the iPhone! The DSi was all they had (maybe an iPod Touch, if they were lucky) and so a website where they could chat to others and post content and play games - all for free - was revolutionary.

Today, however, almost everyone has a smartphone and younger and younger kids are joining Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other such huge incorporated social networks, playing so-so, uninspired free-to-play games like Candy Crush and Farmville (well, probably not Farmville, that's "/sooooooo/ 2008"

.

Most kids 11+ are peer-pressured into being one of the "cool" Xbone/PS4 gamers, playing FPSes like Call of Duty and the like.

Nintendo is just not cool any more - I myself occasionally get mocked for having a New3DS, even when I point out that it's actually the most powerful major handheld and has a revolutionary 3D screen.

I quote: "Nintendo is for little kids."

Though many of us disagree, that's society's (mis)perception of Nintendo.

And so, as changing that is a very long distance out of our reach, we must adapt to this new lifestyle.

If we can't beat 'em... let's join 'em.

Hull & I are working in a new design for the site, which is being rolled out bit by bit, as I'm sure you will have noticed, but I want YOUR ideas.

Where would YOU like to see SDK go?

Leave your ideas down in the comments, whether they be about the new design, maybe ideas for something like an app, anything.

SDK isn't quite dead yet. And it won't be on my watch.

(self-featured because we gotta save this thing)

+17 -0

PORKStheMEATofKINGS
25 Jul 2016 21:08

better forums pls

jsa005
25 Jul 2016 22:47
In reply to PORKStheMEATofKINGS

lmao

ToMcAt
25 Jul 2016 06:52

I like the idea of turning this into both a news and community site as well as adding it to the eShop. I think the site really could have a future if the effort is put in to make it a lot less outdated and to drive more users in.

jsa005
25 Jul 2016 08:29
In reply to ToMcAt

With you 100%.

Rlad116
24 Jul 2016 08:33

okay, so a big one that I Dion see is an android app as well as push notifications if do able. I like the swear filter idea because it's just stupid now at this point and meeting the sites yes, I use dsipaint because it does everything better as far as looks and I'm just too familiar with it, but meeting everything to run on each system automatically would be great(I just realized that dsi and Wii are running such old versions if opera that the sites may not autocinfigur lol), chat event would be great, and advertising on ign or something would be great.

jsa005
24 Jul 2016 08:46
In reply to Rlad116

Push notifications are implemented in the iOS app so Android should be do-able.

jsa005
24 Jul 2016 08:45
In reply to Rlad116

Once I figure out how to make chatroom events it'll happen, lol!

SCREECHiNG FLARE
24 Jul 2016 02:58

And should you mix all of our ideas and send them to Hull?That'd be great,

jsa005
24 Jul 2016 08:23
In reply to SCREECHiNG FLARE

Yup.

SCREECHiNG FLARE
21 Jul 2016 14:29

.Should we add a news section regarding Nintendo stuff?That would be great. c:

Or is it a bad idea? ;^;

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 17:08
In reply to SCREECHiNG FLARE

That would be cool.

OxygenDeficient
21 Jul 2016 11:16

Oh, I have a actual serious idea now.

Maybe try and get Chatrooms active again?I remember aaaages ago when I was in like the 5th grade a few of my friends were on here and the chatrooms had a ton of people in them. I know it'd be kinda hard with the whole not many people get online anymore but I dunno.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 11:23
In reply to OxygenDeficient

Yeah, maybe... A CHAT EVENT!!!!

FancyPants
21 Jul 2016 03:34

Paint's best possible future is as a site closely linked to Nintendo, not as a site for 3DSes, but a site for Nintendo fans in general. One singular site that shares the users and blogs of the main database is a must, and games developed by HullBreach should be extremely related to the Paint community in general.

Paint should be like a fan-made Miiverse kind of, as in a community by Nintendo fans, for Nintendo fans. Games made for the site and developed for the site should be things the community gets to see and be a part of.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:06
In reply to FancyPants

That's definitely essential. Maybe HullBreach could make an app for the 3DS? Or perhaps I could and have Hull test on a devkit (don't actually have a developer 3DS atm) & publish it (we're both Nintendo licensed developers).

HullBreach
22 Jul 2016 22:15
In reply to jsa005

I didn't know you signed up as a dev. You'll have to give me your username in the NDP / Wii U Dev website. Have you gotten a dev kit yet?

jsa005
22 Jul 2016 23:00
In reply to HullBreach

I've PMed you due to the scary threatening NDA.

Finrod
21 Jul 2016 02:21

Leeets get righttttt into the news!

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:14
In reply to Finrod

NEWZZZZZZZZ

Finrod
21 Jul 2016 02:19

An idea i have is different sections for different blogs there could be a Review section where we review videogames and whatnot there could be a news section and heck you could even have a dramalert of SDK

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:06
In reply to Finrod

Nice idea!

Finrod
21 Jul 2016 02:15

How about you fix the Avatars in the groups and BB?

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:05
In reply to Finrod

lol :p they work for me

Star Shadow
20 Jul 2016 19:40

Another idea I have is to merge Wiioperasdk, DSiPaint, and 3DSPaint into a single site. We could call it HullBreach Paint or HullBreach Gaming. There's a couple benefits if we do this.

1, less sites to code. I've seen Wiioperasdk's version a bit broken in some places. Some image links are broken, a certain Shiek chatroom doesn't work in Wii's version. I've also heard the register function is broken too. Point is, certain parts of the functions in certain versions of this community is broken and it'd be easier if have to worry only coding 1 domain name over 3.

2, less domain name cost. I'm not sure if having multiple domain names would be expensive but if we have just 1 site for this community, it might be cheaper for Hull to keep the community open.

banjo2
12 Nov 2019 07:40
In reply to Star Shadow

HullBreach Gaming

Star Shadow
12 Nov 2019 07:53
In reply to banjo2

Damn it, banjo. Stop commenting on old blogs before I do something unspeakable.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:02
In reply to Star Shadow

It's happening; sites are merging into the SDK Community

Star Shadow
21 Jul 2016 09:12
In reply to jsa005

I mean into a singlg domain or website name. Also, you might want to make the old domain names redirect to the new one.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 18:01
In reply to Star Shadow

That's the idea, when Hull gets round to implementing it.

HullBreach
27 Jul 2016 04:27
In reply to jsa005

Once I get SDK Spriter done for the Wii U next month, I'm on it.

jsa005
27 Jul 2016 07:53
In reply to HullBreach

Brilliant! Anything you need me to finish/do?

HullBreach
27 Jul 2016 11:31
In reply to jsa005

Go ahead and refine your chatroom layouts. That will be one of the first areas updated.

jsa005
27 Jul 2016 12:31
In reply to HullBreach

Sure. I'll also work on the Secret Thing.

Star Shadow
20 Jul 2016 19:09

I had been hoping Hull would promote the site like how he did back in 2009-2010 but where would the best place to promote this site to a demographic of 13-15 year olds? Miiverse could have been a good place but because of the no external link rule, Miiverse is out of the question. Flipnote Hatena was a perfect place because it had the demographics and there was no external link rule (that's why I'm here today). If we can't promote the site like in the past, then I have a couple ideas.

We could expand Paint to be some kind gaming review website like IGN, GameSpot, etc. It sounds like an outrageous goal but Paint has chatrooms and few in-browser games . As far as I know, I don't think there are chatrooms in those sites.

Another idea I have is making this site work with Pokemon Go. I'm not sure how but I'll think of something later.

Also, maybe have the rules be loosen a bit. Most admins including me have decided to stop banning for petty things like profanity. Banning someone here now is like beating a near dead mule in the middle of nowhere. Amusing but bad for us. If this is still a family oriented site, then I suggest adding a mature filter that can be deactivated in the settings. The mature filter would work like this: if it's on (by default), all profanity would appear censored to the user. If off, the profanity will not be censored to the user. Or, the profanity filter could outright just ignore the entire post that contains profanity.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:14
In reply to Star Shadow

1) Yes, promoting this site is essential. Following up to my reply to FancyPants' post, if we/Hull/I/Eiji Aonuma make an official 3DS eShop app (free/low price) we can easily drive new users to the community and discuss it on Miiverse as it is an app.

2) This seems a bit of a stretch. I get where you're coming from but I feel that we should stick to what we're good at, so don't focus mainly on the reviews. Plus, our very own Lord Waffle King is starting up his own site atm (coded by yours truly) at lordwaffleking.com, too.

3) I'm confused, LOL.

4) Yeah, people are growing up and seeing swearing all over the place already. We can ask users whether they want to turn the swear filter on at signup (leave it on for guests) and have it disabled for all current users? (checkbox in My Settings, of course)

Thi500
21 Jul 2016 04:38
In reply to Star Shadow

I like this idea

Star Shadow
12 Nov 2019 07:50
In reply to Thi500

One of my ideas came true so there's that.

Also, banjo commented here recently so it showed up on my notifications.

Thi500
20 Jul 2016 18:46

Advertisements.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:00
In reply to Thi500

You mean advertising SDK on other sites?

Thi500
21 Jul 2016 17:56
In reply to jsa005

Yeah.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 18:02
In reply to Thi500

Do-able.

OxygenDeficient
20 Jul 2016 14:02

Ooh I vote SDK goes to space.

I'm sorry I'll leave now.

jsa005
21 Jul 2016 09:00
In reply to OxygenDeficient

omg yes

Finrod
21 Jul 2016 02:16
In reply to OxygenDeficient

How about we make a fanfic session?

Where would [big]YOU[/big] like to see SDK go next?

Comments