The community is cool. Y'all are very kind :).

I like the use of ComicAd for advertisements. It allows for indie artists to easily get more eyes on their work, especially if they're looking for an audience that likes Homestuck. Plus, it's cheap!

Unfortunately I don't have very much else to say that's positive. Despite me just calling the community very kind, please let me sour the mood for just a moment by being the one annoying 8itch with nothing good to say...

The forum software is undercooked. Came out of the oven too early. Blue rare steak. Probably the most infuriating aspect is that they could've just gone out to the Free Software Store and bought a microwaveable phpBB frozen meal and thrown their own spice mix on it to make it taste different. I wish they'd have just kept working on it for a couple months or so. Hell, what's another year? The original forums went down in 2016. I'm sure we could've waited a bit longer.

The use of a custom forum software does open up more possibilities for customization, but it also means there can be tons of nasty vulnerabilities wriggling around in the code, which will take longer to find and fix as this proprietary forum does not - and never will - have the same backing, financial or developer-wise (open source ftw!), as larger projects like the aforementioned phpBB, Discourse, or paid software like XenForo.

Insert obligatory request for BBcode.

I won't say much about the frontend, because I like the idea of it and have already made my criticisms about it heard in another thread.

As for the support email, which is the intended communication method to use if one were to ask for their account to be deleted or if a vulnerability is found in the forum software, it doesn't seem to be checked all that often. It is also possible that it has been misconfigured and simply doesn't receive mail. I can personally attest to this - I sent an email on the 18th of August, and a month later, I have not received any response. This is a big issue considering one of the duties of the support email is to report critical vulnerabilities.

@a1m3v:

> I don't really contribute to a lot of bug reports because I figured other people have already said the issues for me, especially because of the site's beta status.

There's probably a significant enough amount of people who think like that, leading to bugs not being reported. It's probably better to accidentally report a bug twice than to leave it to fester. I don't know though, I don't work here.